New Year's Eve  Baby New Year Project Collect diapers in all sizes at your New Year's party and help our newest clients get off to a clean healthy start in life. Newborn sizes go out in kits.

January -  Our Home Clean Home provides new mops, brooms, cleaning supplies, trash bags, toilet paper, paper towels etc. as housewarming kits for the 750+ families a year.   These kits bring tears to many mother's eyes because now they can afford to clean the new apartment to keep the kids safe and healthy. 

February - Valentine's Cheer-up  Think Spring with a flower themed craft or card for the homebound seniors citizens in our area.

March - Diaper Drive and Newborn Birthday Baskets- (we welcome baby cribs, strollers and gear all year long).   Big thanks to Hannaford’s Grocery Stores for their support of this important project.  Purchase a pack of diapers while you are shopping at a Hannaford's near you and they go to our clients.

April - Beds for Kids - Click on this link, print out the picture and put it on a collection jar.  A gallon jug of pennies is about $80 which buys a new bed for a child.  Every child deserves a bed to sleep in. We also welcome your clean used mattresses. To Sponsor a Bed you can also donate $80 directly through this Website link.

May - Mother's Day "Gift Bag Brigade  (click to download .pdf file)- 500 bags needed 2008 for women in shelters and transitional housing Register to donate bags. New slippers, toiletries, makeup samples and more welcome.  We also welcome goods toward bags, completed bags or you can sponsor a bag for $25 in the name of a woman in your life.

Spring, Summer and Fall - Zero Waste Furniture, home, baby goods drives  Easy to plan, popular with the neighbors and really good for the environment.  Most furniture is worth more as a tax write-off than you get at a yard sale.

·       Find a parking lot

·       Pick a day for a 4 hour drop off period

·       Schedule our truck and we will come collect in your town.

·       Supply volunteers to unload the cars and manage traffic 

We accept a wide variety of home, baby and electronic goods. In Andover each year this event fills trucks from 11 charities (and we bring a tractor trailer).  Contact us for more information. 

July - Pots and Pans Drive - Host a Pots and Pans Drive or if you like yard sales, help us by visiting thrift stores, yard sales and pick and drops.  Many people will give them to you for a charity. Tax receipts provided.

July is the best month to purchase inexpensive school supplies.

August - "Backpack Attack" - 3,000 filled backpacks per year (We need the new packs and supplies! Inexpensive packs available through wholesaler listed to the right or sign up to donate complete packs or have a drive for supplies)

September -  "Wish Kids" Back to School Clothing drive - Winter casual clothes for kids 3T-Juniors.   Consider a "Jeans for Teens drive".  Jeans for men's sizes are most needed but all sizes welcome. Collect new socks and underwear for kids.  Navy uniforms welcome.

October - Judy Keen Blanket the Valley Event. Collect clean blankets all month and donate them during our event. On Saturday we will be processing the donated blankets and making hundreds of fleece and quilted ones on site.  Register your sewing team. Competition for most blankets collected (baby, crocheted, all sizes, comforters too). Saturday Oct 25th 2008 10am-3pm at our warehouse! Come volunteer!  in conjunction with and National "Make a Difference Day" & City of Lowell Hunger/Homeless Month.  

November - "Turkey Brigade"  More than 250 boxes of canned goods and grocery store certificates are needed for spousal assault families that are not reached by other programs.  

December - "The Magic of Christmas"  Christmas gift giving program.  4,500 people helped in 2007!  Sponsor one person or the whole program for gifts.  We have plenty of small and large groups that need toys, gift bags and other things.   Gifts for teens and senior citizens are in prime demand.   We help: babies, families, teens, spousal assult families, mentally and physically challenged, single adults in shelters and homebound seniors (35+ agencies).   Big thanks to Toys for Tots for partnering with our volunteers and the late Dec. gifts.  TOYS FOR TOTS NEEDS VOLUNTEERS DURING THE WEEK TO MOVE TOYS OCT 15TH- DECEMBER 15TH. Contact Sgt. Pratt at  http://www.toysfortotsma.org/volunteer.php