People Helping People
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.
Current Lead Sponsors for the Ride for Food Event
• BitSight
• Direct Federal
• Goodwin Procter
• Noble & Greenough School
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.
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.
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.
The Needham Community Council Spring English as a 2nd Language [ESL] tutor training is almost complete and tutors are ready to be matched with 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.
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Council Offices, Food Pantry, Thrift Shop & all programs follow the Needham Public School weather closings…if the schools are closed, so is the Council; if they have a 2 hour delay, so will we.
Did you know? For over 25 years the Council has contracted for around-town transportation on a BusyBee van…they went out of business and so did our community van…but…it is back! Thanks to two partnerships; with the Charles River YMCA & the Needham Council on Aging, we can once again offer residents rides around town.
The Y van is currently available on Wednesdays between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. This van is not handicapped accessible; independent mobility is required.
The Council on Aging van is handicapped accessible….schedule has not yet been determined, but will be announced soon.
Reservations Required; 24 hours in advance, by phone call only at 781-444-2415