GiftsToGive — Attraction in Acushnet

I've needed a place like this in the past. I often found clothes could be more expensive at thrift stores than in big box stores. Their Sat. 9am to 1pm "yard sale" is a relatively small part of what they do, but has absolutely terrific deals on clothes and small household items. This is a wonderful place to volunteer or to donate your gently used clothes for babies to adults, and other small items. While they give huge amounts of good, clean, and stylish clothing to New Bedford youth through schools, etc., students also do a lot of service learning here. GTG makes sure that kids know that no matter how much money they or their parents have or don't have, or if they have special needs, they all have talents and valuable abilities they can share to help others. These young people learn responsibility, discover their own unique gifts, and contribute greatly to the success of...

When families are in a fire or in need they get a care package of clothes, books, toys other essential needs. When i went to jim looking for a role model, advice, and help connecting dots with community resources I got somewhere around 5000 dollars in gifts to give checks, dinners, 2 laptops, a mattress, and Jim cosigned a lease in an apt In which I had to listen to the neighbors scream and sweet at their children and each other while I wasn't allowed to see my daughter. Gifts to give. Before gifts to give on cove st opened in 2010 2011 my friend asked me if I wanted to go help him. I said yes. We set up all the shelving, I painted the blue windows and green 70 ft wall we built a workbench and ran the 1st clothing drives. At some point jim made a deal with me in which if I volunteered for 19 hours it was all volunteer, 20 or more and I'd get...

Wonderful charity with an engaging leader. The passion that comes from all people involved is amazing, right down to the school aged children sorting clothes, finding missing parts to board games, and completing puzzles to make sure all pieces match. Clothing alone goes through several checks for quality. Jim Steven's once said to my son's class.... "Children are picky and want to wear nice clothes. We don't let anything go through with stains, pulls or missing buttons." He also explained that people often donate with good intentions but sometimes games pieces can be missing so they have a whole section of board games and they make whole new sets and make sure all the pieces match before sending out to the homeless children which will receive them. If you are looking for family project of charity to get involved in please...