Pennies for Poverty:
Two Cents For Change
Together for Change:
Raise Awareness and Strengthen Community
Please consider signing up to help with these events or donate services, places to hold the events. The only way we can offer free events is through the generosity of the community and through the hard work of volunteers.
If you would like to co-host or would like us to co-sponsor an event, please contact us at 2cents4change@gmail.com.
We will be having free events throughout the year in order to bring about awareness as well as community togetherness. Please watch the newspapers for announcements!
See pictures of past events here!
Upcoming Events:
FOOD DRIVE OCT 1-3:
- WHERE: Shaw's Supermarket, Newburyport
- TIMES: Fri. - 9-5, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 10-4 with delivery on Monday 9-10.
Donated food will be split equally between: Community Action, Community Service, Our Neighbor's Table, Pettengill House and The Salvation Army.
Monetary donations will be split equally between the 2 Cent Grant Fund and His Provisions Too, a new soup kitchen in Amesbury.
Volunteers Needed for 2 hour shifts at Shaw's; sorting and dividing of the food; and delivery on Monday October 4th. Please contact Eleanor Turke by email at volunteer@2c4c.com.
Please we need your help! The food drives have been running low on food as well as personal care items during the summer. The winter months increases the demand. Please help us refill the food pantries. Even one can of food can make a difference. With about 17,500 Newburyport residents, if everyone in Newburyport donated one item, there would be 17,500 items of food for the food pantries to give out!
We can't do this without you.
Annual Witches Night Out!
Reverse Trick or Treat
2010 Witches Night Out will be on October 22! Please check back regularly for more information.
Started by Flukes & Finds & Friends, 70 State St., Newburyport in 2008 and in 2009 became a Chamber of Commerce event. Click here for information and pictures of the 2009 event!
Bring 2 Cents to fund the 2 Cent Grant, 2 Cans of food for the food pantries to Treat (no tricks!), Pennies for Poverty: 2 Cents 4 Change!
Past Events:
THANK YOU STAR 240!
Every Wednesday night this summer, Star 240, a motorcycle riding club, has gathered at Haley's Ice Cream to raise money for Pennies for Poverty: 2 Cents 4 Change's 2 Cent Grant Fund. The Star 240 Haley's Ride Ins have raised $2,235.24 in donations, all of which will be returned to the community through grants.
Recently, Pennies for Poverty has awarded $300 to the Salvation Army in Newburyport for emergency personal hygiene products, $2,000 to the YWCA of Newburyport to help disadvantaged children attend summer programs and $2,000 to Kelleher Park in Newburyport to pay for items for its community room. Other 2 Cent Grants that have been awarded: $5,000 to the Learning Enrichment Center, $50 Meal Marks, a bookmark listing all the area soup kitchens and food pantries, $332 to Belleville Congregational Church for emergency bags. Combined with the semi-annual food drives, Pennies efforts on behalf of poverty in the 2 years since we started, total $25,000 and it was done on an operating budget of less than $2,000 a year!
As we wind down the summer of fundraising, we want to take a moment to thank everyone who has come and helped out at Haley's from donors of raffle items to donors of change to purchasers of raffle tickets to all the 50/50 raffle winners who donated their winnings back to the 2 Cent Grant; from celebrity guests to all the motorcyclists and groups who came to show their support; to Haley's staff and Mike Roy who were so very accommodating and generous; to John and Christine Ross of J&C Entertainment who donated their services as DJ to make the last night extra special; and to Cliff and Sue Wolfendale, AKA Cheerful Charlie and Lt. Fuzz, for donating their time and clowning expertise. Special thanks to Star 240, Anthony Pretti and Eric Shaktman who have been there every Wednesday night and who have worked so very hard to make this a successful fundraiser.
Total Raised by the Star 240 Haley's Ride Ins: $2,235.24
"Making Change with Change"
ENCHANTED NEWBURY: A PRELUDE TO SALEM'S WITCHCRAFT HYSTERIA
A TOGETHER PRESENTATION BY WENDY WEST
June 16, 7:00 PM, Newburyport Public Library
This is a story of a seemingly isolated witchcraft case in Newbury, Massachusetts and its relationship to Salem's Witchcraft Hysteria. Newbury was originally settled by Reverend Thomas Parker and his congregants from England, however, Newbury gradually transitioned from an agrarian community to a thriving merchant/fishing community. The transition fractured Newbury into two distinct groups as people began to clash over religious doctrine and economic differences. One of the two groups eventually challenged Reverend Parker's authority in the town. The social conflict in Newbury was called the church crisis; it lasted over thirty years and resulted in the witchcraft accusations against Elizabeth Morse. Newbury's case demonstrates the social as well as the religious origins of witchcraft, just as Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum suggest in their 1974 book Salem Possessed. Elizabeth Morse's witchcraft accusation happened before Salem's witchcraft hysteria therefore, in some ways, Newbury was a dress rehearsal for the events which would occur twelve years later in Salem.
Another Newburyport First! For more information about the history, please click here. Another article about "Enchanted Newbury" can be found here.