NEW! This year…click here for an online direct delivery Amazon wish list

Top items on the Wish List:
College & Wide Ruled Notebook Paper
Colored Pencils
Ballpoint Pens – blue or black
Index Cards
Post-It Notes
Paper Towels
Ziploc Bags – qt or gallon
Combination Locks
Hand Sanitizer

WE ARE GETTING READY FOR THE 7TH ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM!
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Always an amazing day here at the Council!

ITEMS NEEDED: Index cards, back packs, colored pencils, markers, tape, notebooks, flash drives, folders, pens, pencils, crayons,  tissues, baby wipes, hand sanitizer… everything a student needs to be ready for a new school year!

All supplies are donated by Needham residents and local businesses; a group of employees from a Needham consulting firm donates many hours of their time to help us set up and brings hundreds of items purchased with employee funds, matched by a corporate donation…a local family donates gift cards to Staples, worth $25 each, to distribute to EVERY student…boxes of school supplies are sent to us anonymously, and more….

If you are a current Food Pantry customer:

    Click here for more information 
    Click here to register to participate in this distribution program

If you are not a current Food Pantry customer: Call us at 781-444-2415 for more information on qualifications

Over 90 students from income-eligible families participated in the 2017 Annual Back to School Supplies Distribution Program. One Mom came with 3 kids and she left in tears and said…“I don’t know how I would manage without your support”…and, we don’t know how we would manage without the support of the entire Needham community.

Thank You!
Let’s do it again……help us make the 2018 distribution program better than ever..donate now!

The Needham Community Council Spring English as a 2^nd Language [ESL] tutor training is complete and tutors are ready to be matched with new students.

Any Needham-based adult [living and/or working in town] who wants to improve their English can register with the Council ESL Program. Students are matched one-on-one with a tutor. There are also conversation groups and activity groups available where speaking English is the goal.

For more information contact our office at 781-444-2415 or click here to submit an application online.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

IT’S OUR 6TH YEAR! JOIN US!

 SPONSORED BY THREE SQUARES NE

 

 

Thanks to all the 2017 Council Team members and Direct Federal Team members we raised over $35,000 last year. Click here to register for Team Community Council 2018 or to donate to Team Community Council or to one of our team riders.

 

Current Lead Sponsors for the Ride for Food Event

• BitSight
• Direct Federal
• Goodwin Procter
• Noble & Greenough School

 

  
Hawthorn Builders & Charles River Strength & Fitness, both of Needham, have a Tough Mudder Team running to raise funds and awareness for the Council.

Saturday, June 23rd  
508 International  
Charlton, MA

Click here to register….Hawthorn will donate $75 to the Council for each registration to their team.

Don’t want to run in the mud? click here to donate to the Council in support of their efforts.

 

 

Thanks to a generous donation from The Dressing Well Charitable Foundation, the Council Thrift Shop is now partnering to provide professional wardrobe advice, shopping assistance and clothing to clients of the Council and homeless shelters in the area. Participants in this program are either entering or re-entering the work force.

Needham’s own, Mary Lou Andre, Dressing Well President and founder, and Council volunteers kicked off the program on February 10th and have met a series of clients over the past few months.  

 

As part of the program, the clients are given a professional wardrobe consultation and shopping assistance at the Needham Community Council Thrift Shop along with a generous gift certificate to purchase clothing and accessories.   The participants in this new program walk out with complete new outfits and lots of inspiration and encouragement for how to put their best foot forward in the workplace with a well-styled appearance. 

Stay tuned  for our fall open house on Tuesday, October 23rd to showcase this new program to the community.

NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL’S
CHILD ASSAULT PREVENTION PROGRAM [CAP]

In January, 2002 Caren Nemtzow presented a CAP workshop in Mr. Kascak’s [Mr. K] 5th grade class at Hillside School as a CAP volunteer. One of the students that day was Evan Cohen; fast forward to January, 2018. Caren is now the Director of Needham CAP, Ms. Cohen is now the classroom teacher, and Mr. K is now the Hillside Principal!

This year, CAP, in it’s 24th year in Needham, presented 60 workshops to 1,198 children in the Needham elementary schools; teaching them that all children have the right to be “Safe, Strong & Free”.

Thank you to the wonderful teams of trained volunteer Prevention Specialists who present CAP workshops throughout the school year, to the PTCs who help support the CAP Program and to the schools and their staff for warmly welcoming this program into their busy school days.

For more information on this important and timeless program, please click here to email Caren Nemtzow.

We are now accepting applications for the fall volunteer training that begins on Oct. 28th. Click here to visit our website.

 

 

Click here to view the newest Council video