There is much for all of us to be thankful for. We are thankful for our community, our partners, and our team for working together to serve those in need. This year STM packed and distributed over 1000 Thanksgiving meals with the help of Imperfect Foods, Wegmans, Sudano’s, Montgomery County’s Food Security Task Force, Amerigroup, Takoma Academy, The Goddard School (Olney), Bethesda Metro Rotary Interactors for families at Hampshire Tower Apts, Essex House Apts, Maple View Apts, Park Ritchie Apts, Edinburgh House Apts, Parkview Apts, Cambridge & Winslow Apts, Langley Garden Apts, University Landing Apts, and families in Rockville. We are also grateful to Sts Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washington DC for providing 225 Thanksgiving meals to our families at Twinbrook ES, Weller Road ES, and Eastern MS.

Our teen-led pantry distributions are back after taking a break this summer. They take place one Tuesday each month from 4:30-6pm (see our calendar for dates) behind the TPSS Coop building. Families chose from a variety of basic and/or culturally relevant foods including, eggs, masa, oil, and nonperishable foods provided by Montgomery County, as well as prepared foods and produce, diapers, feminine hygiene products and more! Our thanks to all of our wonderful teens and partners that make our work possible.

STM is excited to announce the new Small Things Matter club at Wootton High School led by co-Presidents Abby and Nikki! They recruited many members at the school’s club fair and have already made bookmarks for our literacy program! Wooton STM is now working on a coat drive to help the food insecure families we serve in Takoma Park and Silver Spring. So very proud of these students!

Our thanks to our friends at Target for their wonderful donation of hygiene kits for our families. Target stores from all over Maryland contributed 60 hygiene kits filled with soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothbrushes, toothpaste and more. We shared these kits with the families at Park Ritchie Apartments in Takoma Park that we serve and they were thrilled!!! Thank you! #kindness

Our thanks to The Monitor Group for their amazing donation of 50 backpacks filled with school supplies as well as a monetary donation for our holiday baskets! We are so grateful for your continued support!

Our deepest thanks to Columbia Country Club for hosting a backpack drive for STM’s families! Their families assembled 88 backpacks filled with school supplies. It was so heartwarming seeing all the tiny hands hard at work. Their kindness is greatly appreciated.

Our deepest thanks to GFWC Metropolitan Community Club (MCC) who donated $1000 to purchase backpacks and school supplies. Using their generous donation 100 backpacks filled with supplies including headphones, composition notebooks, pencils, crayons, gluesticks, and scissor were made for K-2nd grade students. We are grateful for their generous and continued support!

Our deepest thanks to our friends at Sts Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washington DC for their generous donation of 250 filled backpacks and extra school supplies! We are so grateful for your friendship and continued support!