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7 Community Thanksgiving Meals & Volunteer Opportunities in Western MA

Taking place across western Massachusetts, community meals held around Thanksgiving offer opportunities for communities to connect through food and for families to give back to their communities. Families can donate food, volunteer at events, or attend community meals in order to help build community!

Category: Hilltown Families, Volunteer Opportunity Tags: Community Service, community volunteering, Family Volunteer Opportunities, kindness, Thanksgiving in Western Massachusetts, Volunteering on Thanksgiving

Community Service: Horizons for Homeless Children

Volunteer Training for Teens with Horizons for Homeless Children Did you know that one in every fifty children in the United States lives without a permanent home? Horizons for Homeless Children helps children living in shelters across Western Massachusetts by providing play spaces in shelters (places often not child-friendly and devoid of home-like aspects) and offering volunteers to spend time with kids, playing, reading, etc., in the play areas. Due to the… Read More

Category: Hilltown Families, Suggested Activity, Volunteer Opportunity Tags: Family Volunteer Opportunities, Homeless, Homelessness, Horizons for Homeless Children, Massachusetts, New England, Service Learning, Volunteering, western massachusetts

Community Service: Mass Audubon Statewide Volunteer Day

Work for Wildlife Mass Audubon 6th Annual Statewide Volunteer Day Saturday, April 28th, 2012 Spend a day volunteering with Mass Audubon! The organization’s annual Statewide Volunteer Day will take place on Saturday, April 28th from 9am-12noon in locations across the state. In Western MA, families can volunteer at one of three sanctuaries: Canoe Meadows in Pittsfield; Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Easthampton; or Laughing Brook Wildlife Sanctuary in Hampden. Volunteers can help to… Read More