Action Committee

The Action Committee Calendar

2022

January -

February -

March - candy and toys for putting together Easter baskets

April - Cash donation for building playgrounds in Cape Verde

May - Diaper collection

June - Items for Veterans

July - Food collection to help stock the shelves at Milford Senior Center

August - School Supplies

September -

October - Warm clothing

November - Food to supplement the Boy Scout's Thanksgiving Food Drive

December -

• ******Every month food donations are welcome because no one should ever go hungry.

• Also, donations of coupons and personal toiletry items for our Veterans are always good.

• Finally, the sock bank (Bridgeport Relief Agency) is so grateful for donations every month of the year.

• Gently used clothes, especially coats and jackets, are also very welcome!

There are so many ways we can - and do - give back for the blessings in our lives!

If you know of an organization that is collecting items for families in Milford, please let us know. We are happy to help our neighbors!

Thank you so much for your generousity over the past months - Milford is lucky to have such caring and dedicated women! By each giving just a little, together we help so much!

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January 2019

We are having a jewelry and accessory swap. Any unclaimed items will go to the St. Raphael's Thrift Shop, courtesy of Evelyn.

December 2018 -

This year, as last, Lorraine is spearheading the drive to help the Boys' and Girls' Village of Milford to buy gifts for the children. Last year we raised over $500, as I recall, at our December meeting. Please bring a check made out to Boys and Girls Village of Milford.

November 2018-

Annual Thanksgiving Food Collection - please donate non-perishable foods to help all have a bounteous Thanksgiving feast. Our donation will be distributed with the food collected by the Boy Scouts of Milford.

October 2018-

Annual Collection of warm clothing -great job, Ladies.

Thank you to Lynn for delivering 256 pounds of clothing to Bridgeport Rescue Center

August 2018 - We will be collecting school supplies. Last year we had enough for three separate schools. We look forward to this year's collection. Start shopping the back-to-school sales, ladies! and thank-you, in advance.

July 2018 - Pet food, toys, treats, etc. collection will go to the Milford Animal Shelter.

Thanks to all who donated. Once again, your generosity is a thing of beauty.

June 2018- No collection for this month. Thanks for your tremendous generosity over the past few months.

May, 2018

Our annual drive for diapers and diaper wipes and gently used children's clothing was again a tremendous success! Thanks for the generosity of our members for supplying goods that will bring comfort to lots of little ones who might otherwise have gone too long without a change!

October 2017

As summer winds down, and you start putting away your summer clothes and pull out your warm woolies, weed through items that are gently used but that you no longer wear and bring them to our October 9 WRR meeting.

Our annual warm winter clothing drive will help to increase the comfort of many individuals less fortunate than we. Also, on September 26, from 2-4, we will be sewing fleece hats at Evelyn's that will keep lots of folks heads warm this coming winter.

Once again, ladies, You Did It! Thanks for your generosity.

August 2017

Our service project this month will be our annual collection of school supplies to go to deserving children in the local area.

We are also collecting food to go this month to Milford Senior Center.

Thanks again to our generous members for an outstanding response to our call for school supplies. In addition, we also collected a significant amount of food for Beth El. Fantastic!

July 2017

This from Debby K.

Action for this month will be a collection for Covenant to Care. This is the organization through which we give the Easter baskets. It is an outreach service linking people or organizations to a Dept of Children and Family Services social worker.. The organization or persons agree to a covenant in which they provide special or emergency needs to children in that social worker's caseload. This augments the provisions of the State, fostering safer more stable homes.

Our social worker, Isabelle, has expressed a dire need for diapers, infants items, and clothing. They need diapers of all sizes, summer clothing of all sizes (new or used), and infant shampoo/lotion/wipes. These are the items not covered by State assistance and are often requested by their clients. The social workers have no way to provide these items except for the generosity of people like you. So gather up your grandchildren's outgrown clothing from last summer, grab a package of diapers and/or a baby need and help children who are in extreme poverty.

Debby

Thanks once again to our members for their terrific generosity.

June 2017

Our speaker will be Karen Lombardi from the Woodbridge Animal Center, so it's fitting that this month we collect pet food and supplies.

Our monthly food donations will go to the Milford Senior Center.

Thanks, everyone, for your generous donations.

May 2017

While it was announced that there would be just the regular food collection, Debby learned that there was a real need at Beth El for lots of specific items such a paper goods, etc. Ladies! You came through again with an extremely generous response to the call. Thank you all.

April 2017

Our service project this month is an exciting one. The VFW post of Devon, CT contacted Debby K. about an annual event called the Day of Hospitalized Vets. This year it will be bigger than ever and will include many women veterans as well as men. The event will take place on May 7 in Rocky Hill. At the end of the event, each participant goes home with a goody bag. Since there will be more participants than ever, the VFW is reaching out to civic organizations to collect donations of books, games, puzzles, candy, toiletries, etc. so they will have ample supplies to fill the gifts. Thanks you in advanced for your continued generosity.

What a great response, ladies! Debbie got a thank you note from the organizers of the event, and they said our donation was the most generous and made what was a good event, fantastic!

March 2017

We will be filling all the wonderful bunny boxes (finishing touches to be added by members at the meeting) with individually wrapped candies, small toys, etc. Please bring some things to help us fill the "baskets" that will bring joy to children who might not otherwise have an Easter treat.

Also, non-perishable food items are always welcome. This month any collected food items will help stock the pantry at Beth-El.

Great Job, Ladies! Debby will deliver the baskets to Covenant To Care, a wonderful organization, which will distribute them to area children who would otherwise go without.

February 2017

Thanks to all who contributed to our book, cd, dvd, magazine, etc. swap. Everything not take was donated to Milford Public Library.

January 2017

Accessory Swap. Anything left over will go to benefit My Sister's Place in Shelton. Food collection this month goes to Beth El.

Thanks for your generosity.

December 2016

Monetary collection for Christmas gift cards for Adopt-A-Family of Milford, sponsored by Milford Family Services. Thanks in advance for your generosity. Please bring a cash donation to our Meeting on Monday, December 12. If you bring a check, please make it out to cash.

Update: With Lorraine's matching gift, we raised $350 to bring joy to deserving families. Thanks, ladies, for your generosity!

November 2016

Thanks to all who brought in donations of food for our Thanksgiving Food Drive.

October 2016

Thanks so much to all who brought in new or gently used warm clothes for our winter clothing drive. It is amazing how many items are donated each year that help keep others who are less fortunate warmer this winter. Some of our members under the tutelage of Evelyn Duffner also sewed over 70 warm fleece caps. Way to go ladies! And, lest we forget, we also delivered dozens of small fleece pillows to Vicki Manning, founder of Kisses from Katie non-profit organization, which is dedicated to providing resources to critically ill children.

http://www.kissesfromkatie.org/website/publish/home/homeList.php

August 2016 update:

Thanks to all who so generously supported our collection of back-to-school supplies. Thanks so much to Debby for getting them to the folks at United Way who will put backpacks together and hopefully will make lots of kids happy.

August 2016 - Collecting school supplies to fill backpacks of Milford kids who need a helping hand. Please be generous.

Here is a list of suggested items (thanks to Debby K for compiling it)

black and white composition notebooks

3 ring binders

wide ruled loose leaf paper

subject dividers

single subject notebooks

spiral notebooks

plastic 2 section folders

washable markers

colored pencils

regular plain pencils (many teachers stated that fancy ones were too distracting)

erasable pens

crayons

highlighters

sticky post-it note pads

glue sticks

scissors

erasers

small pencil box (many teachers stated that large ones do not fit into desks)

dry erase markers

dark sock (for erasing the dry erase board)

disinfecting wipes

tissues (asked for by all teachers!)

July 2016

While we had no formal collection this month, several people brought in donations of food that went to Beth El. Thank you.

June 2016

Thanks to Debby K. for getting all the pet food and supply donations to the pound in Milford. Thanks to all who donated! Debby sent us this picture and wrote:

"We had a great assortment of dog and cat food along with treats and toys. A few blankets and a bed made our contribution complete. Our four legged friends will appreciate what you have given them."

May 2016

Our May meeting at Case Memorial was very well attended. This year's diaper drive, thanks to Debby K, went off without a hitch. In fact, many of you dropped off your donations directly to Debby's trunk before heading up to the meeting. Good planning, Deb.

Thanks to all of our members for your continued generosity.

April 2016

We had over 40 women in attendance at our WRR meeting this past Monday. Thanks to all for their generous donations to benefit Beth-El. Thanks also to our wonderful presenter who helped us understand all the wonderful work they do to help those less fortunate at the center. Many of our members volunteer at the center on a regular basis. Bravo to all those volunteers who allow this important community service to continue their work.

March 2016

Our service project for the WRR March meeting, creating and providing many Easter baskets that will be delivered to Covenant to Care, was very successful. Thanks to all who took such time to transform the boutique tissue boxes into darling bunnies as well at to all who donated candy and small toys with which to fill them. On Monday evening, we arrived to find several stations set up where our members could streamline the process of filling and wrapping the baskets. Everyone got to work, and the baskets were filled and wrapped in record time. Great work, everyone.

January 2016

Thanks to all our generous members for such great participation in our accessory swap. Many of us went home with new "treasures." We were able to repurpose items that were no longer as appealing to us. And My Sisters' Place in Ansonia, CT benefited from all the remaining accessories.

We also collected food and warm clothing which will be welcomed by many.

December 2015

UPDATE: We raised over $500 including a pledge to match up to $100 from one of our members! That was a wonderful response. Thanks to all our members for their generosity in making the holiday happy for others less fortunate.

At the WRR December meeting, instead of our usual collection for Toys for Tots, we collected monetary donations which will be given in the form of gift cards to a needy family. Our family was selected by The Department of Human Services and Milford Youth and Family Services, City of Milford. We are helping a mom and her young son. With a matching donation of over $100 from one of our members, we will be able to buy a number of gift cards for our family to give them a very happy holiday. Thanks to Lorraine R. for all she does to promote and run this wonderful service. She how she is beaming over the amount collected! (Sorry, the webpage won't let me rotate the image.)

November 2015

Besides celebrating our 8th birthday, WRR had a very good response for our annual Thanksgiving food drive. Thanks to all who donated. Here is a note from Debbie Kasowitz with details of how the food wil be distributed. Thanks, Deb.

The food collected at our November meeting will be taken to Wasson Field on Friday, November 14. The Milford Boy and Girl Scouts are hosting their 10th "Thanks 4 Giving Food Drive". This is the major food drive for the Thanksgiving season and involves all food distribution charities in the town. The scouts will collect and sort food donations received at the field as well as local supermarkets over a 48 hour period.

We collected an impressive assortment of food, enough to fill the entire trunk of a car.

Thank you all for your generous support. Deb

October 2015

What great generosity from our members! Our October warm clothes donation brought in many items that will surely be appreciated, especially now with colder temperatures appearing so early in the season. Thanks so much to Lynn for dropping them off at Bridgeport Rescue Mission.

The donation also included a whole box filled with warm, cozy fleece hats sewn by our own WRR members under Evelyn's expert tutelage.

September 2015

Thanks so much for the donation of shoes for our September collection. Debbie said we collected 62 pair to be donated to the non-profit Rerun Shoes. Thanks to all who donated and to Debbie for organizing and delivering the shoes to a collection point at Hawley-Lane Shoes in Orange.

August 2015

Thank you so much for your generous donations of school supplies! Our Milford students will be very well prepared when school opens in September!