15 Acts of Kindness Projects
Helping Harvest, our community food assistance program, is celebrating its 15th anniversary this spring—and we want to give back to the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk community in a meaningful way! We're partnering with our friends at Abounding Love Christian Fellowship and City Church to launch 15 Acts of Kindness for 15 Years of Impact. Take a look at our projects below. Want to help? Sign up to volunteer for projects below!
Project 5
Food Drive for Local Food Pantries
Ongoing
Our local food pantries are the first line of defense when families face a lack of food. They complement the work we do at Helping Harvest, our low-cost grocery store program for struggling families. Funding has been slashed for the Regional Food Bank, which supplies much of food local pantries count on. Let's host a food drive for our local food pantries including St. Patrick's Food Pantry in Ravena, Ventures Church Food Pantry in South Bethlehem and Trinity Methodist's in Coeymans Hollow.
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Food donations can be dropped off at Helping Harvest Mon, Tues, Thurs and Sat 10-2 and Wed, Fri 2-6.
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Project 6
Honoring our teachers, school support staff and bus drivers
Monday, June 23
As the school year winds to a close, we want to thank the teachers, support staff and bus drivers at Ravena, Coeymans, Selkirk Central School District. We appreciate their dedication to the education and equipping of our community's children.
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We will be delivering snack trays and ice cream goodies to all four schools.
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More Acts of Kindness Projects Coming Soon!
Completed Acts of Kindness Projects
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Project 1
Trinity United Methodist Church's Ccommunity Garden
Saturday, May 17
9-11 am
1313 State Route 143, Coeymans Hollow
For our first act of service, we helped weed Trinity Methodist's community garden beds. We dodged the rain, made some new friends and enjoyed yummy muffins.
Project 2
Yard Work at Senior's Home
Sunday, May 25
Noon to 2 pm
Address to be provided to registered volunteers
Our second act of service found us at a local widow's home. We did 2+ hours of yard work, including mowing the lawn, trimming shrubbery and weeding. We ate pizza and had some laughs.
Project 3
Village of Ravena Trash Clean Up
Sunday, June 1
Noon to 2 pm
Faith Plaza and Jefferson Ave
The Village of Ravena had its annual Earth Day trash collection canceled due to rain multiple times. Our volunteers stepped up and and collected liter in Faith Plaza and along Jefferson Ave. We even rescued a Shop n Save shopping cart from the middle of a catch basin!
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Project 4
Helping Refurnishings prepare for yard sale day
Friday and Saturday, June 6 and 7
Refurnishings
2842 Route 9W
Ravena., NY 12143
Local charity, Justice for Orphans, runs Refurnishings as a fundraiser to support its broader mission of helping kids in crisis. Refurnishings is a second hand furniture store. Our volunteers helped them move and clean up furniture in preparation for Ravena's yard sale day.