Community Outreach
MTA = Moms Take Action
Fun and Easy ways to help make our world a
better place for our children.
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Quilt for a Cure Update
Thanks to all who worked
so hard on the quilt we made for Quilt for a Cure. Our quilt was won by a man
with a brand new granddaughter. This new grandfather wrote ”I just think the
whole thing is so fantastic that this quilt is being made with the loving touch
of mothers rather than a quick thought-less factory that the whole thing moves
me every time I think of it. Thank you all for all of your wonderful effort, I
know this quilt will be put to great use when my daughter and her family move
to
Here is a picture:
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Community Builder
Update
On December 15, the Mothers' Centers
hosted a Diaper Changing/Nursing Booth at the Boys and Girls Club Holiday Craft
Fair at Ward Melville High. This service to mothers and caretakers on-the-go
offers a safe and clean place to care for their children and gives us an
opportunity to share what we have received and what we offer at the Mothers'
Center with the community. Each time I have been at the booth at a community
event I have had grandmothers express appreciation too, for the booth because
"nothing like this existed for us when my children were young". Thanks
to Laura B. for helping that day and Kelly D for helping put together raffle
baskets for the event. We had a hot chocolate lovers
basket and a large etched vase full of 5+ lbs of home-made cookies. I weighed
them! We made around $50.00 on raffles and donations, and made many connections
with former and potential members. Thanks to the Boys and Girls Club for
donating a free space for our booth. Please consider spending some time in your
community as a representative of the MC next time. Thank you, Ann L.
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Ronald McDonald House
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2007
Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Address:
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Book Drive
Our book drive is still going on. Please bring your new or gently
used books to
the Mothers’ Center. Moms want to help all children!
As you clean out your bookcases, consider making a pile to bring to
the Mothers’ Center.
We are collecting new and gently used books to donate to children
who are not as fortunate as ours.
Just drop it in the box at the Mothers’ Center and we’ll do the
rest.
With your help, we’ve already collected and turned in over 100
books.
Thank you and happy reading!
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“Change for Change” Cash Cow Update
Since
September of 2006, we have been collecting spare change to feed to our “cash
cow.”
We
are happy to report that we have collected $40! All the money will be donated
to Heifer International,
an organization that works with communities to end hunger and poverty.
From
honeybees to pigs to goats and cows, families are given these animals to raise
and breed which,
in turn, not only provide food but also education to an entire community.
(see http://www.heifer.org
for more info).
With
your help, we have collected enough money to donate
a flock of ducks and a flock of geese to some well deserving families in
need.
Thank
you!
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Quilt Pink Update
Back in September of 2006, we joined the nationwide effort to
raise money for breast cancer research
by making and donating pink and white blocks to
a local quilt shop.
They, in turn, sewed our blocks together with others to make
quilts to raffle.
The proceeds from that raffle will be given to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Our Quilt Pink quilt workshop was a great success.
Please check out the following site http://www.cityquilter.com/quiltpink.htm
for
pictures
of the quilts made from our Quilt Pink blocks.
Thank you to all who
participated!
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Little Angel Quilt Update
Our Little Angel quilt workshop was another great success.
Several members turned out to help create some of the most
beautiful, most colorful quilt blocks (see below).
And no two blocks look the same!
We presented it to the Little Angel Fund,
a local group whose sole purpose is to make life
a little easier and more comfortable for premature
and seriously ill infants and their families while
they are in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
at Stony
Here is a picture:
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About Mothers’
Community Outreach
Our members have been
reaching out within the community to help others in need. Over the past
three years, we, as a group of local volunteer mothers, have done all of the following:
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Collected
& donated clothing, toys, and money for a local family with young children
whose house burned in a fire
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Provided
a changing/nursing station at the Long Island Apple Festival for the past eight
years
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Coordinated
three blood drives through Stony
Brook University Hospital Blood Bank
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Been
a drop-off location for Toys for Tots for two years in a row
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Collected
food for Long Island Cares and our local food pantries
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Donated
clothing and toys to a local homeless shelter
v Collected & donated magazines to a
local senior residence
Please
see Deborah F. if you have any ideas on what else we can do to
reach out and serve our
community.