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#GivingTuesday 2018 in Silver Spring

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday.

Today is #GivingTuesday, celebrated on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving as a global movement that celebrates giving, generosity, and change for people throughout their communities. #GivingTuesday allows us to unite as one and to encourage more small acts of kindness.

Here are a few Nonprofits celebrating #GivingTuesday in our local community today:

Silver Spring Village

The mission of Silver Spring Village is to build and sustain a supportive network of neighbors helping neighbors remain in their own homes and be engaged in their community as they age.

Residents of various close-in Silver Spring neighborhoods serve on a volunteer basis on the board of directors and on the board’s committees.  Our (part-time) Executive Director develops strategies and plans and, together with our (part-time) Director of Volunteer Services and many volunteers, ensures their implementation.

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A Wider Circle

This #GivingTuesday, whatever you give will be DOUBLED or TRIPLED. All donations will be matched dollar for dollar – with gifts of $1,000 or more receiving a 2-for-1 match, up to a total of $30,000 to support our new Partnership to Independence Program!

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ArtStream, Inc.

Few theatres provide challenging arts opportunities for adults with disabilities and fewer still encourage them to be artists as well as audience members. ArtStream’s six Inclusive Theatre Companies invite actors with intellectual and developmental disabilities to collaborate with theater professionals and trained volunteer mentors to develop and present original musical theatre productions. Participants can also take theatre-based classes to boost self-confidence and strengthen communications and social skills. And the arts can heal, just as they can educate and entertain. Partnerships with schools, community organizations, and others ensure that adults and children can access the arts in a way that is meaningful, powerful, and healing. Your contribution makes it happen.

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Friends of the Silver Spring Library

Friends of the Library, Silver Spring Chapter (FOLSS), is an all-volunteer organization of people who care about our library. FOLSS raises money to augment public funding for programs, materials, and equipment at the Silver Spring Library. We raised funds to pay for the state-of-the-art Early Literacy Center on the Silver Spring Library’s fifth floor; we also fund programming for Summer Reading, Library Lovers’ Month, and various other teen and adult programs during the year. Every dollar of donated funds goes directly to programming, materials, and services that benefit our local community.

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Crossroads Community Food Network

Crossroads Community Food Network is building a healthier, more inclusive food system in our community. At the heart of this integrated network of food growers, makers, and consumers is Crossroads Farmers Market, where nutrition incentives make healthy food more affordable and at the same time helps support local farmers and vendors — 3/4 of whom are immigrants themselves.

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Shepherd’s Table

Shepherd’s Table is using #GivingTuesday to expand their food service program that provides those in need with nutritious meals 365 days a year. Join their effort to DOUBLE their impact in the community!

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To find more local community programs to help support on #GivingTuesday, visit: Silver Spring Cares and for organizations world wide, visit https://www.givingtuesday.org.

Giving Back Boredom Busters via Silver Spring Cares

We are in the thick of summer with the new school year still a ways away – this means more time for the kids to be bored and restless while they wait for school to start. Silver Spring Cares put together a great list to fight this with 10 ways to get your kids involved in the local community this summer!

Read some below or head on over to their site to read the full list.

Welcome to the endless summer, Maryland! Where you’ll get 4,200 additional renditions of “I’m Bored!” Ok ok, school does start back September 4 but that seems really far away. So to help you reduce the “I’m Boreds” by 10, here are ten things your kids can do to help others this summer (with minimal supervision).

Host a food drive for Manna Food Center

Check out the Most Needed Foods list, make flyers, and let your neighbors know your kids will do porch pickup of food donations. Summer time is a lean time for food pantries so getting your neighborhood involved to bridge the summer food gap!

Paint Kindness Rocks inspired by Small Things Matter

Create kindness rocks to be abandoned and discovered by others as a Random Act of Kindness. Spread messages of love and kindness throughout your community!

Pick Up Litter on your Street for the Friends of Sligo Creek

Grab a trash bag and gloves and send your kids down your street to pick up the trash that gathers in the gutters. Trash gets washed to the creek from gutters so picking up trash along your street can help protect Sligo Creek!

Make Cards for our Senior Community Members through Silver Spring Village

Put your kids’ art skills to use and make beautiful drawings, colorings or cards to give to Silver Spring Village to distribute to their clients.

Clean out Closets for Mary’s Center

Two birds, one stone here, parents! Have your kids clean out their closets and toys and donate gently used things they no longer wear/play with to Mary’s Center for the families they serve.

Read Full List via Silver Spring Cares Blog

Silver Spring Cares Welcomes New Organizations

Haven’t been to the Silver Spring Cares website lately? Well, we’ve been super busy exploring all of the amazing organizations right here in Silver Spring. Who knew we had such a wealth of folks working hard to better the lives of so many right here in Silver Spring; and we’ve only scratched the surface!

Since our launch in June, we’ve added 11 new organizations! Welcome to Carpe Diem, Silver Spring Village, Hope Restored, Comfort Cases, Identity, One Montgomery Green, The Arc of Montgomery County, Difference Makers, Create Arts Center, Passion 4 Learning, and Adventist Community Services!

Be sure to clear your kitchen counter for Casseroles for A Cause on Saturday, October 7th! Learn more and sign up to host at http://www.silverspringcares.org/casseroles-for-a-cause/.


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Haven’t been to the Silver Spring Cares website lately? Well, we’ve been super busy exploring all of the amazing organizations right here in Silver Spring. Who knew we had such a wealth of folks working hard to better the lives of so many right here in Silver Spring; and we’ve only scratched the surface!

Since our launch in June, we’ve added 11 new organizations! Welcome to Carpe Diem, Silver Spring Village, Hope Restored, Comfort Cases, Identity, One Montgomery Green, The Arc of Montgomery County, Difference Makers, Create Arts Center, Passion 4 Learning, and Adventist Community Services!

Be sure to clear your kitchen counter for Casseroles for A Cause on Saturday, October 7th! Learn more and sign up to host at http://www.silverspringcares.org/casseroles-for-a-cause/.


#GIVINGTUESDAY 2016

Today is #GivingTuesday, celebrated on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving as a global movement that celebrates giving, generosity, and change for people throughout their communities. #GivingTuesday allows us to unite as one and to encourage more small acts of kindness. Here are a few Nonprofits celebrating #GivingTuesday in our local community today:

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Silver Spring Village

Silver Spring Village is using #GivingTuesday to provide continued support for a wide variety of programs and services for seniors in Silver Spring. You have the power to make Silver Spring a model community that takes care of its seniors. Silver Spring, Maryland Website


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A Wider Circle

A Wider Circle is using #GivingTuesday to help provide long term support to those in poverty. Silver Spring, Maryland Website


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Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County

AHCMC is using #Giving Tuesday to allow continued support for creativity, culture, and community. AHCMC helps put teaching artists back into our classrooms, costumes on our performers, and roofs over the theaters, galleries and education spaces. Keep MoCo creative! Silver Spring, Maryland Website


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Maryland Youth Ballet

MYB is using #GivingTuesday to support their Music and Motion classes – these classes are therapeutic dance instruction to young children with physical disabilities. Donations will support the purchase of new therapuetic equipment.

Silver Spring, Maryland Website


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Crossroads Community Food Network

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is using #GivingTuesday to help support key initiatives like the Healthy Eating Program, because when kids know more about fruits and vegetables, they eat them! Takoma Park, Maryland Website


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Shepard’s Table

Shepard’s Table 

is using #GivingTuesday to expand their food service program that provides those in need with nutritious meals 365 days a year. Join their effort to DOUBLE their impact in the comunity! Silver Spring, Maryland Website


To find more local community programs to help support on #GivingTuesday, visit: https://www.givingtuesday.org