Category: Community Service

BELLEVILLE SCHOOL’S DRIVE AWAY HUNGER

March 05, 2024 | Community Service

  A Letter from Belleville Dist. #118 Superintendent, Ryan Boike:   Dear Parents and Students of Belleville District #118, We need your help to address hunger in our community. This year, we will be holding the 16thannual Drive Away Hunger service project. Over the years, the response to our project hasbeen overwhelming, and we have delivered over 175,000 items to food pantries in Belleville. We know that many families and individuals are struggling this year, and the food pantries are indire need of supplies. Therefore, we are requesting your support to make this project a success. We hope each student is able to contribute a bag of groceries for the food pantry. You arewelcome to send more than one bag of food if you can. However, if you are unable to support theproject with food,…

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Healthcare & CSA Committee – Snack Drive for Heartlinks Grief Center

February 06, 2024 | Community Service

Through February, The Chamber and Healthcare & CSA Committee will be collecting snacks for the kids receiving grief counseling at Heartlinks Grief Center. We are collecting individually, wrapped snacks (i.e. chips, gold fish crackers, fruit snacks, granola bars, rice krispy treats, etc).  What is Heartlinks? Heartlinks Grief Center, a program of Family Hospice, assists grieving children, individuals, families, and groups through individual and family counseling, peer support groups, and other supportive community programs regardless of ability to pay. You can drop items off at The Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce office now thru February 29, 2024.

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Get Free School Supplies & Ways You Can Donate

July 27, 2023 | Community Service

  School Supply Giveaway Events   Bliss Events Teen Night Back 2 School Party & Supply Drive July 28Teens are welcome to dance, have pizza & soda AND score some free school supplies! Bliss Events hosts Teen Nights on Fridays from 7-10pm.  Supplies will also be collected after the event. Click event link for more info.   Logan & Logan Back to School Event August 6Logan & Logan in partnership with M.A.M. Cares is hosting their annual Back to School Giveaway. There will be giveaways along with on-site dental exams by Dental Safari. Click event link for more info.   Where to Donate   Bennie’s Pizza Pub Classroom Supply Drive   August 25You can enjoy dinner & a concert and help stock the classrooms of our local teachers. “Here at Bennie’s we love to give back. In…

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BELLEVILLE SCHOOL’S DRIVE AWAY HUNGER

March 13, 2023 | Community Service

A Letter from Belleville Dist. #118 Superintendent, Ryan Boike: Hello to everyone. In the past we, as a District, have come together in a service project called “Drive Away Hunger”. This project was created by our District Character Education Committee. The response to our efforts to “drive away hunger” in our community has been overwhelming and as a result, we have delivered over 165,000 items on school buses to our Belleville food pantries. We will hold the 2023 Drive Away Hunger service project this year. This year to make the donation bigger and better, we will continue to partner with other schools in the Belleville community. There are many more individuals and families struggling this year and the food pantries are in desperate need of supplies. Simply put, they need our help. The project will…

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