Board Member Ann McEvoy has begun a Blog on the Attleboro Patch, a local on-line newspaper. You can follow her blog from the Attleboro Patches Local Voices Section What is on your plate? Do you have to worry where your next meal is coming from? For many in Attleboro that food comes from the hands Read more
October 23, 2011 by admin
In its fifth year, more than 150 high school students will spend a weekend without a roof over their heads, without mom’s homecooking, without electronics including phones. Instead, they will begin in worship on Friday night and end in their own church on Sunday morning. Attleboro Area Youth Homelessness Awareness Weekend will take place at Read more
October 22, 2011 by admin
CROP Hunger Walk : The Attleboro CROP Hunger Walk will be held on Sunday, October 16th! Please sign up to walk or sponsor a walker. 25 percent of the proceeds of the Attleboro walk directly benefits our Food n’ Friends Program. In 2010 Food n’ Friends served over 38,500 meals, handed out over 3600 breakfast bags, Read more
September 21, 2011 by admin
The 2011 Fall Fair, Winter Bazaar & Church Fair Directory, published by the Attleboro Area Council of Churches, is now available! Listings of all fairs and other autumn and winter goings on in the Greater Attleboro Area is compiled by our staff as a courtesy to the community, so get yours now! Downloadable from the Read more
September 21, 2011 by admin
We say “No WAY!” The Summer Kids Cafe launched on Thursday, June 30 and smiling faces were in abundance. Free healthy bagged lunches will be given to any child 18 or under Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 noon on the Briggs Playground 36 East St. in the heart of downtown Attleboro! Come on down and Read more
July 1, 2011 by admin
The Lenny Zakim Fund believes positive social change can be created by small, effective grassroots organizations that are often overlooked by large foundations, government agencies, and major donors. Their mission to identify, listen to, support and connect grassroots community organizations that are bridging communities and transforming lives is proudly being realized by a grant recently Read more
March 30, 2011 by admin
Project Bread recently issued the 2010 status report on hunger with the latest statistics: “the continued high rate of unemployment and expiration of benefits have resulted in over 615,000 people in Massachusetts at risk for hunger.” ‘In low income communities, families with children experience hunger at three times the rate of the rest of the Read more
January 23, 2011 by admin