Our partners Strathmore Children’s Chorus, Seneca Valley High School, The Goddard School, Difference Makers, DM at Richard Montgomery High School, and DM Teen Ambassadors have already started on their MLK Day of Service Projects making fleece scarves and decorating reusable cloth bags and filling them with toiletries for the homeless in our community. Our thanks to Youth Service America, Mott Foundation, Montgomery County Volunteer Center, and our donors for their generous monetary support that made these projects possible. Please join us on Monday, January 21 at Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center from 1-3pm to make these items with Small Things Matter members and volunteers from NASDAQ MarketSite NASDAQ #Goodworks. Join us as we engage youth and their families in a day of service in honor of Dr. King’s life and work. #volunteer #MLKday #mlkdayofservice #kindness

Our thanks to Eric Bond/Takoma Radio for having Small Things Matter on his show Talk of Takoma on WOWD-LP, 94.3 on January 13, 2019. We enjoyed talking about our literacy and crafting for charity program as well as our upcoming MLK projects at Bethesda North Marriott on Monday, January 21, 2019 from 1-3pm sponsored by the Montgomery County Volunteer Center. Registration for this event is required and you can sign up here.

If you missed our radio interview you can listen to it here:

Our thanks to Mary Ann Bruce for braving the snow to deliver her generous donation of 102 brand new YA books for our literacy program today (January 12, 2019). It’s our first book donation for 2019! Thank you for your continued support and kindness!!!

For our MLK Day of Service we will be crafting fleece scarves & decorating reusable cloth bags and filling them with toiletries for the homeless in our community. These items will be donated to Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Home Builders Care Assessment Center (HBCAC) Men’s Emergency Shelter, Interfaith Works Women’s Shelter, and The National Center for Children and Families. Our thanks to Youth Service America, Mott Foundation, and Montgomery County Volunteer Center for their generous grants that made this possible and to Strathmore Children’s Chorus, Difference Makers, Seneca Valley High School, The Goddard School in Olney,and Montgomery County Volunteer Center for partnering with us to engage youth in service in honor of Dr. King’s life and work. #MLK

Our thanks to our friends Scott and Cyndi Hoffman at Ono Brewing Company for hosting a book drive for STM during the month of November. These books will be loved by our kids. Mahalo nui loa for your kind support!

If you’d like to help us by hosting a book drive at your school, office, or business please contact us at thesmallthingsmatter@yahoo.com or call/text us at 202-669-8550. Thanks!

STM had a fun day wrapping for donations at Barnes & Noble on December 22, 2018. Our thanks to B&N’s Community Business Development Manager Patrick Hatcher for all of his help and to all of our wonderful volunteers (Eric, Shreya, Yuri, Joanna, Johann, Joshua, Lana, Tarun, Katie, Jasmine, Sydnee, and Lainee) for coming out and wrapping with us. We appreciate everyone’s fantastic support!

STM had another great day wrapping for donations at Barnes & Nobleon December 21, 2018. Our thanks to B&N’s Community Business Development Manager Patrick Hatcher for all of his help and to Nasdaq#GoodWorks volunteers Eurdise Brown and Marni Dacy for coming out and wrapping with us. We’ll be wrapping again today from 3pm-midnight with our student volunteers! This is our last day of wrapping so come out today if you can! Thanks! 

STM had a fantastic day wrapping for donations at Barnes & Noble on December 20, 2018. Our thanks to managers Mike, Jacob, and Justin for all of their help and to Temasek‘s Sustainability & Stewardship Group of Vivian Tran, Anne Perron, and Pierce Scranton for coming out and wrapping with us. 100% of funds raised will be used to purchase book for our literacy program.

Our thanks to everyone for making Winterfest a success yesterday December 15, 2018. We enjoyed meeting the many families and individuals who came out and enjoyed our wonderful artisans and vendors, Santa (played by the amazing Karl Kosok), food, and craft tables sponsored by STM. STM had a great day and is grateful for the support from our partner Difference Makers and for all the volunteers that we recruited through Montgomery County Volunteer Center. The children had a great time visiting Santa, decorating cookies/ornaments, making pinecone birdfeeders/beaded ornaments, folding origami, and face painting.  STM also sold photo button ornaments at this event.  We hope you did too and that we’ll see everyone again next year!

Join us for Winterfest 2018: Arts and Crafts Show at Takoma Park Middle School on December 15, 2018! Our holiday event features 50+ local artisans and vendors, FREE kids crafts, a visit with Santa (photo op!), music, food, FREE raffle of items donated by our talented artisans, and more.

Proceeds benefit Difference Makers (www.difference-makers.org) and Small Things Matter.

Artisans and Vendors:

Artisans and Vendors:
Art by ODDREY
BAMI Products
Baubles by Babsy/ 3410 Where Threads Begin
BeAdmired
BFabricArt
Blended Blessings
Blue 52 Catering & Events
Buldano
Cefirina Ruth
Clean Bee Soapworks
CreateTricks, LLC
Custom Crochet
District Spice
Dude’s Snack Attack
e.c. ornaments
Finneran Jewelry
Gardens and Pots
glittagirlshop
Happily Ever After Sewing Boutique
Happy Little Art Studio
I Sew Totes
in-jeen-yuhs
Kimbahu
Kindly Krafted
L. S. Watson, Inc.
Lilies of the VAlley
Lilla Rose
Lincoln Street Design
Lita+Ro
Mark Cottman Gallery
Mary Kay
Mathnasium of Downtown Silver Spring
Muddy Echo
Music for Life
Nonstop Calligraphy
Nuture Designs
Paparazzi Accessories/Prell’s Glam Shop
Paper Bridges
Passanante’s Home Food Services
Prince William Home Improvement
RADOST, LLC
R.Dirtflower Crystals
Rockinkatcrafts
Rock Paper Plant
Scentsy – Gee Stewart
Sea of Flowers Jewelry
Shabana
Soul Seasoning Sisters
Studio Kayama
The O’Malley Orignials
The Twisting Wheel
Tocara
Turned Woodcrafts
Unearthed Arts
Valerie Wang Art
Ventieara
White Witch Gardens

Small Things Matter (www.smallthingsmatter.org)
Difference Makers (www.difference-makers.org)