A huge thank you to everyone for making our holiday toy drive a success. We distributed 2,020 toys & gift cards with the families we serve at the TP/SS apartments (Cambridge, Winslow, Hampshire Tower, Essex House, Park Ritchie, Parkview Towers, Blair Park, Edinburgh, Hancock Gardens, Maple View, MHP 610-614, Colonnade at the Creek, Sligo Creek, Langley Gardens), TP/SS families that we serve at our drive by distributions, TPSS Coop staff, Title I school Meadow Hall ES, and 15 families in Rockville.

Special shout out to all the groups that helped with toys (Lithko Contracting, Nexight Group, TPSS Co-op, Tabletopdc, Takoma Park Child Development Center, Takoma Montessori School – TMS, Old Takoma Ace Hardware, Silver Spring Ace Hardware, Olive Lounge & Grill, Wegmans Germantown, Child’s Play, Starbucks Coffee Westside, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Bethesda, MD, Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, The Senior Connection, Thomas W. Pyle Middle School, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Studio Of Colour and Design By Margie Billian, Helping Hands Army, Herson’s Honda), our amazing and generous community for toys, gift cards, and monetary donations, Takoma Park Presbyterian Church for donating their chapel and 5th floor space so that we could sort and store the toys, elves (Mary, Chris, Manuela, Christine, Erica, James, Cameron, Colman, River) who sorted and assigned presents to the kids, and site coordinators (Doris, Jackie, Nafkote, Leda, Eva, Angel, Zina, Pamela, Flor, Wendy) who distributed the presents within the apartments. Thank you everyone for helping these children have a nice holiday season!

Small Things Matter is collecting brand new toys for ages 0-12 and gift cards for ages 13-17 for the families we serve. Please help us make their holidays a little brighter by dropping off a toy at these locations The Takoma Park Seventh-day Adventist Church Old Takoma Ace Hardware Silver Spring Ace Hardware Lithko Contracting TPSS Co-op Olive Lounge & Grill The Studio Of Colour and Design By Margie Billian Tabletopdc Helping Hands Army Starbucks Westside at Shady Grove Takoma Park Child Development Center Herson’s Honda The Senior Connection Nexight Group St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Bethesda, MD Wegmans Germantown Takoma Montessori School – TMS. You can also make a small monetary donation via Venmo @thesmallthingsmatter, Paypal thesmallthingsmatter@yahoo.com, or check made out to Small Things Matter, 14516 Bauer Drive, Rockville, MD 20853.

Alternative Gifts of Greater Washington, Inc. (AGGW) was founded on the premise that among the most thoughtful gifts you can give someone is a donation to one or more charities in their honor. STM is honored to be among the 14 groups at the fair this year. Thanks to everyone who joined us today for our in person fair. If you missed it you can still help by purchasing one of our gifts below to help the families we serve at aggw.org

$10 Helps STM purchase crafting supplies (yarn, cloth) so that we can make items such as fleece scarves, monster stuffies, and friendship bracelets for children’s hospitals and shelters

$30 Helps STM purchase brand new books for the underserved children we serve

$100 Helps STM purchase fresh produce for a TP/SS family in need for a year

Thank you everyone for coming out to support us on Monday, November 27, 2023! We are grateful to the Olive Lounge & Grill (7006 Carroll Ave, Takoma Park, MD 20912, 11:30am-10pm) for donating 10% of their proceeds and to People’s Book (7014 Westmoreland Ave Suite A, Takoma Park, MD 20912, 9am-8pm) for collecting brand new children’s books for us!

We apprecitate all of your support!

Our deepest thanks to our amazing partners: Montgomery County Food Security Task Force for providing us with produce and chicken, Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washington DC for providing us with 430 turkeys , Arliss Giant in Silver Spring for donating 200 pies, MCPS middle and high school students for baking desserts, and our community for their sponsorship of turkeys and chicken which allowed us to share 1302 Thanksgiving baskets (roaster chicken or turkey, potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie/cake) with the families we serve in Takoma Park, Silver Spring, and Rockville.

Thanks to all of our amazing friends for coming out to our gala on Saturday, November 11, 2023! We have accomplished so much together! We are grateful to our team of volunteers, sponsors TPSS Co-op, The Takoma Park Seventh-day Adventist Church, Wellpoint, The Monitor Group, LLC, CuraCapitol, The Studio Of Colour and Design By Margie Billian, Meet Canopy Family Care , partners Wegmans Germantown, Imperfect Foods, Trader Joes, Lyon Bakery, Takoma Park Presbyterian Church, Pastor Xisto for his meaningful speech and prayer, and elected officials Councilmember Kate Stewart, Takoma Park Mayor Talisha Searcy, County Executive Marc Elrich, Delegate David Moon, Delegate Lorig Charkoudian, Senator Will Smith for their kindness and support!

Our deepest thanks to all of the businesses, groups, and individuals who donated items for our silent auction! 100% of the proceeds go towards feeding our neighbors in need.

Bid on our Silent Auction ONLINE here:

Items will be displayed at our gala on Saturday, November 11.

Bidding ends Sunday, November 12 at noon!

Thanks everyone!

Our thanks to everyone for making our backpack drive a success! We distributed over 1600 backpacks to the families we serve in Takoma Park, Silver Spring, and Rockville! Our thanks to all of our wonderful partners: Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), Target, Sts Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washington DC, GFWC MCC, Morgan Lewis, The Monitor Group, LLC, Creative Explorers Child Care, Pure Barre, Williams Asset Management, Massmutual Greater Washington, Vendor Centric, Wellpoint, WP Buffs, Saydam Properties Group at Keller Williams Capital Properties, Continuum Healthcare Network Telemedicine Program, collection partners: Sprout Bloom & Bake, Zinnia, Tabletopdc, Takoma Park Presbyterian Church, The Takoma Park Seventh-day Adventist Church, TPSS Co-op, The Studio Of Colour and Design By Margie Billian, Starbucks, MCR-SGA, and our community!

STM’s annual backpacks and school supplies drive is starting and we need your help in order to reach our goal of collecting 1500 backpacks filled with school supplies to help all the families we serve. Backpacks and school supplies can be dropped off now at Zinnia, Tabletop, TP Presbyterian Church, TPSS Coop, Colour & Design, Pure Barre, Starbucks (locations TBD), and at our office in Rockville.

Monetary donations can also be made via Venmo @thesmallthingsmatter, Paypal thesmallthingsmatter@yahoo.com, or check made out to Small Things Matter. Monetary donations allow us to purchase things in bulk. There will also be good sales for school supplies in August at Target. Thanks!

Thanks to all of our amazing sponsors, partners, and our community. #strongertogether