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ABCD’S Winter Mission: Heat, Holiday Joy, and Happiness for Greater Boston Families
With so many families already struggling to cover monthly expenses, it can be even more complicated to try and stretch the paycheck to ensure kids get some special presents for the holidays. Action Boston Community Development, a non-profit helping people in the Greater Boston area connect to resources to get them out of poverty, says it’s received thousands of requests…
Community floods Boston toy drive with donations after nonprofit calls for help
Earlier this week Action for Boston Community Development hadn’t received any donations for its annual toy drive Toys are flooding into a Boston nonprofit after concerns earlier this week that no donations were coming in for its annual toy drive. Friday, we got a look at the holiday haul at Action for Boston Community Development – or ABDC – and where…
Community floods Boston toy drive with donations after nonprofit calls for help
Toys are flooding into a Boston nonprofit after concerns earlier this week that no donations were coming in for its annual toy drive. Friday, we got a look at the holiday haul at Action for Boston Community Development – or ABDC – and where those gifts are headed. It may feel like a cliche, but in many ways it’s a Christmas…
Boston toy drive: ‘We haven’t received any donations as of yet for this year’
This is a time for joy and giving, but for many children, the holiday spirit can be dampened by a lack of gifts. Action for Boston Community Development, a Dorchester-based nonprofit, is running a toy drive to stop that from happening, but they haven’t received a single donation this season. “We haven’t received any donations as of yet for this…
The ABCD Toy Drive: Give Toys and Smiles to a Child in Need This Holiday Season
Call to Action! After receiving over 6,500 requests this year and no donations so far, ABCD is looking for help. Most toys will do, but they are looking for items for kids 10 to 12. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and what better way to celebrate than by spreading some holiday cheer to children and families in…
Boston Nonprofit Pleads With Public to Help With Christmas Toys for Children in Need
For children in need, the holiday season can be a time of despair and discouragement. That’s why the Dorchester-based nonprofit Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) has set an ambitious goal to collect approximately 6,500 toys to serve at least 800 families this year. So far, however, ABCD has yet to receive a single toy donation this season. ABCD toy…
News media, local businesses and the City of Boston generate major influx of donations for ABCD Toy Drive benefitting Greater Boston children
Philanthropist Dr. Paul Buttonwieser founder of the Family to Family Project donates $50k cash gift PHOTO OPPORTUNITY CONTACT:Jamie McIver857.488.5068jamie.mciver@bostonabcd.org WHAT:Toy drop off by local businesses, the City of Boston and community members for the ABCD Toy Drive to benefit disadvantaged children across Greater Boston and the Mystic Valley. ABCD reached out to the media and the community for help with its…
Boston toy drive is desperate for donations
Action for Boston Community Development has roughly 6,500 requests from families in need, but only has enough toys to distribute to about a third of them. A Boston nonprofit is asking for more donations for its annual toy drive as it struggles to meet the demand from families this year. Action for Boston Community Development has roughly 6,500 requests from families in need,…
‘She was the center of gravity’: Gloria Fox, longest-serving Black woman lawmaker in Mass. history, remembered at funeral service
Gloria L. Fox, the longest-serving Black woman representative in the Massachusetts State Legislaturewho died last month at age 82, was rememberedTuesday in a funeral service at the Charles Street AME Church as a superwoman, a legend, and a lifelong advocate of Boston’s Black communities. “She was the center of gravity, with everyone swirling around her,” Mayor Michelle Wu told hundreds…
