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Community Newsletter
May, 2017
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Keeping you up to date on the many ways Beverly Bootstraps provides critical resources to families and individuals so they may achieve self-sufficiency.
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Career and College Readiness helps overcome barriers.
Julie*
continues to find herself in the challenging situation of not making enough to pay all her bills, but making too much to qualify for substantial government assistance. She also has been denied disability-- even though physically she can only handle part-time work due to chronic back and hip problems. She is further limited by her lack of computer literacy.
Julie came to us to help her find an appropriate full-time job that would help improve her financial situation. It is nearly impossible to apply for a job on paper anymore, so our first goal with to teach her some basic computer skills. Together, we made an email account and created a resume. She was then able to apply for numerous jobs.
She recently got a full-time retail job and is now in a much more comfortable situation. People need to be able to navigate computers to do the most basic things these days and without Beverly Bootstraps College and Career Readiness program's help, Julie would still be stuck coming up short every month.
*Names changed for privacy
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Spring Showers bring Sunday Hours
at the
Thrift Shop
For extra convenient spring time shopping and donating, the Beverly Bootstraps
Thrift Shop will be open on Sundays from 12-4pm, this Sunday, 5/14 through June 25, excluding Memorial Day weekend.
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How you can help:
It's change of wardrobe season...
When doing spring cleaning and changing over to your spring/summer wardrobes, please consider donating anything that won't fit this year to the Thrift Shop. For a list of what we do and don't accept, please
click here. And if you find anything that's not in re-sellable condition, you can drop it in the textile collection bins on all the Beverly Public School properties.
Click here for what can be donated there.
Graduating seniors - are you done with
your graphing calculators?
If you are done with those expensive calculators you need in high school, please consider donating it to Beverly Bootstraps. We can get it to a student who couldn't otherwise afford their own through our Back-to-School Bonanza program.
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Nancy Frates & the Power of Community; an Inspirational Breakfast Talk
Get your tickets now to help celebrate our 25th Anniversary at this uplifting event being held on Tuesday, May 23 from 8am-10am at the Cabot Theatre, 286 Cabot Street, Beverly. Hear Nancy Frates' engaging story of finding courage in the face of adversity and inspiring the community and the entire nation. Event and 25 for 25 Raffle tickets are available here.
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Thank you!
Children giving back
Thank you to this 11 year old and all that came to her birthday party and donated to her food collection to help stock the shelves of our Food Pantry.
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People's Bank gives generous gift
Thank you to People's United Bank who recently presented a generous gift that will go directly towards helping us help our clients to succeed.
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Single Source donates to Back-to-School
Thank you to Single Source who just dropped off all of the grades 6-8 backpacks that we distribute over the summer. They're all chock full of brand new school supplies too!
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Happenings
Greater Beverly Chamber of Commerce
7th Annual Business Showcase
TONIGHT!
Thursday, May 11, from 5:00pm-8:00pm
North Shore Music Theater
Please stop by to say hi at the Beverly Bootstraps Thrift Shop table along with 50 other local businesses. There will be complimentary food sampling from local businesses, a guest speaker, music and a door prize! Admission is free. (
click here
for more info)
Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
Saturday, May 13
At your mailbox
Leave some non-perishable food in a bag by your mailbox for your local postal carrier to pick up on Saturday, May 13. This is the largest one-day food drive in the country and the food collected stays local and helps your neighbors in need.
Nancy Frates & the Power of Community; an Inspirational Breakfast Talk
Tuesday, May 23, from 8am-10am
The Cabot Theatre, 286 Cabot Street, Beverly
Join us to help celebrate our 25th Anniversary at this uplifting event. Hear Nancy Frates' engaging story of finding courage in the face of adversity and inspiring the community and the entire nation.
Click here
for more info and to buy event and raffle tickets.
Market Basket Food Drive
Saturday, June 3, from 9am-1pm
Market Basket, Endicott Street, Danvers
Please support our Food Drive at Market Basket in Danvers by stopping by on your way in to get a shopping list of our most needed items. Just grab an extra item or several while you shop for yourself and drop them in the basket on your way out.
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To learn more, click on these handy links:
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Beverly Bootstraps | 35 Park Street, Beverly, MA 01915 | 978-927-1561
BeverlyBootstraps.org
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