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Community Newsletter
May, 2018
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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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Its expensive to be poor.
When trapped in low paying jobs that do not provide enough to live on, life actually becomes more expensive. If you can't afford the first month's rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don't have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which-in addition to its nutritional deficits-is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor-especially with children to support and care for-is a perpetual high-wire act.
No amount of training in financial literacy can prepare someone for such situations-or make up for an income that is impossibly low to start with. B
y continuing to blame poverty not on the economy or inadequate social supports, but on the poor themselves, it doesn't help them get the assistance they so desperately need.
Beverly Bootstraps is here to help people out of this trap - thanks to your support.
From theatlantic.com. Click here to read full story.
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Donate backpacks and supplies
School is not even out yet, but we're getting ready for next year already! If you, your company, or organization would like to help provide children with the backpack and school supplies necessary to start the new school year prepared for success, we've made it even easier to do so.
You can purchase right from our Amazon Wish List and have it shipped directly to us. Just click
here to get started.
If you're an organization that would like to make larger donation, please contact Heather Johnston, Director of Donor Relations at 978-927-1561 or [email protected].
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The Thrift Shop recently ran a Haiku writing contest. The theme had to be about Beverly Bootstraps and the prize was a gift certificate to the Shop. Please enjoy the winning entry submitted by Hannah Wagner, an emerging writer from Salem:
Peel back the zipper
Flash of colors and spirals
Backpacks bring success
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In Other News:
Bill Cummings' has published a new memoir,
Starting Small and Making it Big, which offers many valuable lessons and inspirational stories that are so relevant today. All proceeds from book sales go to the Cummings Foundation which makes grants to local organizations for a positive impact in the local community. As a past grant recipient, we are happy to share the review of
"Starting Small"
here. We are greatful for the support of the Cummings Foundation.
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Thank you!
Thank you to the Waring School students who have spent the past eight months volunteering in one of our morning ESOL classes. Every week the students came to Beverly Bootstraps to be a part of "conversation circles." The two groups of students formed a close relationship; the ESOL students shared the culture of their native countries and the Waring students were excited to help the ESOL students practice their English and share their own American cultures. Recently, the ESOL students took a field trip to visit their new friends and tour the school. It has been wonderful to see this partnership develop over the past year and we know our ESOL students will miss the graduating Waring students.
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Super Sub Shop recently celebrated its anniversary by holding a food drive for Beverly Bootstraps. They collected and donated 318 pounds of food and also donated the $682 from their tip jar! Thank you!
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We recently received a very generous grant from
People's United Bank for our Adult Educations programs. Thank you for your support.
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Happenings
Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive
Saturday, May 12
At your mailbox
Leave non-perishable food by your mailbox and your local letter carrier will pick up all donations on their regular delivery route on Saturday. All food collected will then be sorted and distributed to local food pantries, including Beverly Bootstraps' Food Pantry. Click
here for for a list of the most needed pantry items.
Strides For Service
Saturday, May 12, 9 - 11:30am
Beverly Common, 50 Dane Street, Beverly
Join us for a one hour family-friendly run/walk in downtown Beverly on Mother's Day weekend! Collect a ticket for each completed loop, then use your tickets to enter a raffle for a chance to win over 30 awesome prizes!
This event is a fundraiser to support the local, national and worldwide service outreach of First Baptist Church in Beverly and we are so grateful for their ongoing support.
Thrift Shop Pop-up at the Chamber of Commerce Business Expo
Thursday, May 17, 5 - 8pm
North Shore Music Theatre, 62 Dunham Road, Beverly
Check out a smaller selection of the wonderful merchandise offered at bargain prices at the Thrift Shop.
Touch-a-Truck
Saturday, May 19, 10am - 1pm
Beverly High School, 100 Sohier Road, Beverly
Bring the kids to see, touch & explore their favorite big trucks & vehicles as well as meet the personnel who protect, serve & build the Beverly community. Don't forget to bring some non-perishable food for their food drive to benefit Beverly Bootstraps! (click for flyer)
Memorial Day Food Drive
Monday, May 28, 9am - 1pm
Campbell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot Street, Beverly
Stop by to drop off some non-perishable food to help stock Beverly Bootstraps Food Pantry shelves and enjoy a hot cup of coffee and a newspaper!
Market Basket Food Drive
Saturday, June 9, 9am - 1pm
Market Basket, 139 Endicott Street, Danvers
On your way in to do your own shopping, grab a list of our most needed items in the Food Pantry and buy one or two of them to drop in our baskets on your way back 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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