THRIVE

Days of Our THRIVE…
On Thursday the donations came, the resources showed up, and our THRIVE Tribe brought the heart with a little comedy on the side! 😂

A huge thank you to @ Unitarian Church Fall River for the wonderful hygiene supplies, sweats, and clothing.🥰
A huge thank you to Sara and family for the beautiful clothing donations.🥰
Journey Christian Church for your exceptional donations!🥰

Thank you to Lara for the juices.🥰

Mary Souza Sisson for the Bacitracin and baggies. Around here, even a baggie has an important job! 🥰

To our kind, caring resource partners
Southcoast Street Outreach Team, Child & Family Services,HealthFirst Family Care Center, Inc. for health services, Mary for helping with insurance, and First Step Inn thank you for showing our unsheltered neighbors kindness and helping them connect with support. 🥰

And our THRIVE Tribe:
Joan, our chef, keeping us fed!🥰
Marsha, our very own Godiva, keeping life sweet!🥰
Giving Back is so precious, Chelsea, Eric, Andrea, Elias, and Destinee, thank you for your time, teamwork, and big hearts!🥰

If love, laughter, and sweatpants could solve everything, this crew would have it handled!🥰

We’re grateful for every donation, every helping hand, and every person who makes our neighbors feel welcome. This is how we THRIVE together. 🥰

Days of our THRIVE - Saturday
The nor’easter didn’t stop us from serving our unsheltered neighbors. When the weather gets rough, a good meal and a warm welcome mean even more.😻

Thank you,The Kindness Kitchen for the delicious bagged lunches: pulled pork sandwiches, macaroni salad, bananas, flavored drinks, and so many snacks! Everything was prepared with delicate and intentional care.🥰 Sandy Henrique-Greenwood Mary Souza Sisson Chelsea Caisse

Thank you Outreach for your graciousness and kindness on Saturday. 🥰

Our THRIVE Tribe was a little short
handed but Joan, Manny, Fillip and Carolin, kept things going with heart and soul. 🥰
Thank you again for staying and volunteering!🥰
We are grateful for our neighbors who helped us breakdown and clean up, thank you!🥰

Rain, wind, or nor’easter, this community keeps showing up for one another.🥰

YOU CAN HELP KEEP An UNSHELTERED NEIGHBOR WARM THIS WINTER

It’s getting chilly out! 😩

Consider holding a winter drive at your church, workplace, or business, or collect a few items with friends and family.

We need winter coats, warm clothing, sweats, blankets, and sleeping bags, boxer briefs, women panties for our unsheltered neighbors. Please give CLEAN items in GOOD condition, ready to use.

Message THRIVE For Humanity to arrange a drop-off or get help starting a drive.

Days of Our THRIVE: episode; Chocolate Milk, Scrumptious Meals and Rockstar Volunteers

Saturday
Another busy week where the coffee was flowing and the chocolate milk became the unexpected celebrity!😁

Saturday, Blessed Trinity PNCC prepared a scrumptious bagged meal and donated yogurt and oranges. We are so grateful for their faithful commitment to feeding our unsheltered neighbors.🙏🥰

Jovi from Southcoast Community Outreach helped our guests feel heard. Thank you!🥰

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers Joan, Manny, Pat, Chelsea, Eric, Fillip and Marlene. Going the extra mile is apparently part of the THRIVE job description, even without a paycheck! 🥰

Thank you also to Marlene Moreira Santos and her friends for the generous clothing donations.🥰

Thursday
Breakfast included muffins, bagels, yogurt, cereal, coffee and chocolate milk. A special thank-you to Luci Vitorino for the donations. The chocolate milk was such a hit!🥰

Thank you to our faithful wonderful milk lady Helen Sullivan🥰

Our service providers and rockstar volunteers were amazing, as always.🥰

We were also grateful to offer showers. For someone without daily access, a shower is more than getting clean it restores comfort, confidence and dignity.🥰

A little laughter, a lot of love and people reminding people that they matter. That’s THRIVE. 🥰

DAYS OF OUR THRIVE
Another Week of People Caring for People🥰

What a week of generosity at THRIVE!🥰🥳

Saturday was filled with blessings.Thank you Trinity Kizer Amedeo and her daughter provided bagged lunches,yummy!!🥰

Rose donated an incredible amount of clothing. Thank you 🥰

Journey Christian Church..: Lisa and friends came through with blankets, socks, underwear and clothing, necessities our unsheltered neighbors need every single week.thank you 🙏🥰

Carolin Jane Berry made sure we had much needed men’s boxer briefs,Thank you 🥰🙏
and of course, Helen Sullivan our Milk Lady, came through again, this time also donating dessert plates! Thank you for your tenacity!🙏🥰

And none of it happens without our marvelous THRIVE Tribe — Joan, Manny, Carolin, Chelsea, Marlene, Lynn, Fillip and Eric. Thank you for continuing to show up and serve with your whole hearts.🥰🙏

Thursday…I know a little back track.

We are so grateful to SVDP for your constant commitment to providing bagged lunches. Week after week, you help us make sure our neighbors have something to take with them when they leave.🙏🥰

Our friends from Southcoast Health Outreach and Child & Family Services were there connecting people with resources and support.🥰 never missing a beat!

Mary Kinnane, thank you for always doing your very best to get things DONE for others.🥰

Thank you for the donations from First Step Inn!🥰
Thank you to the City of Fall River Paul Coogan for providing the mobile showers. A hot shower, clean clothing, a good meal and someone who cares can mean more than we sometimes realize.🥰

And our THRIVE cast of characters was at it again 😂 Joan,Marsha, Rose Marie Chelsea, Lynn and Fillip!

Everywhere you looked, someone was giving something.

A lunch.
A blanket.
A pair of socks.
Underwear.
Milk.
Dessert plates.
Food.
A shower.
A resource.
Their time.

It may look like a lot of little things.

But together, those little things tell someone:
“You matter. We see you. You are not forgotten.”

That’s what Days of Our THRIVE is really about.
Until Thursday…

Grateful. Honored. Inspired!

A heartfelt thank you to UnitedHealthcare
for inviting THRIVE For Humanity to this year’s Provider Expo. It was an incredible day of connection, learning, and being surrounded by organizations committed to making a difference.

We are especially honored and grateful that THRIVE was chosen as a grant recipient. This investment means more meals, clothing, hygiene essentials, showers, resources and most importantly, dignity and hope for our unsheltered neighbors who walk through our doors each week.🥰

Thank you, UnitedHealthcare, for seeing the work happening in our community, believing in our mission, and choosing to invest in it.

Thank you HealthFirst Family Care Center, Inc. for your support and partnership.

We may do a lot with a little, but together, we can do so much more.

Days of Our THRIVE: A Tale of Two Days

Thursday’s scene opened with kindness already in motion.

Deaconess arrived with a donation of hygiene items, small necessities that help our unsheltered neighbors feel cared for and valued.🥰

Behind the scenes, Blessed Trinity PNCC graciously allowed us to use their ovens. Thank you for helping us serve a warm meal with dignity. 🥰

The Kindness Kitchen thank you for your donations. 🥰

Helen Sullivan our milk lady, thank you!🥰

Our community partners
AdCare, Child & Family Services, and Southcoast Health Community Outreach joined us to offer support, resources, and meaningful connections.🥰

A special thank-you to Sara and her family for their generous clothing donations.🥰

And, as always, our faithful volunteers brought the entire scene together. Thank you for showing up and serving with compassion.🥰

Then came Saturday’s scene…

The doors opened, the volunteers stepped into their places, breakfast was set, and the delicious aroma of sloppy tacos directed by Joan Galford filled the room!🥰

Journey Christian Church thank you for providing today’s meatballs, along with snacks and drinks for our bagged lunches. Thank you also to your wonderful volunteers. Everything you did was noticed and greatly appreciated!🥰🙏

Carolin, thank you for generously donating bags of clothing for our neighbors.🥰

And to our amazing THRIVE volunteers
Joan, Manny, Pat, Lynn, Carolin, Filip, Eric, and Chelsea, thank you for giving your time, energy, and hearts.🥰

Another two days filled with food, clothing, resources, teamwork, and compassion.

Because these are not merely the days of our lives…

These are the Days of Our THRIVE.

The Days of Our THRIVE — Thursday & Saturday

Thursday

A special thank you to Helen Sullivan, our faithful “Milk Lady,” who is always there for THRIVE and our neighbors.🥰

Thank you The Kindness Kitchen for donating cooked potatoes, corn and a coffee pot, we are thrilled! 🥰

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers: Joan, Chelsea, Lynn, Marsha, Lisa, Fillip, and Eric. Your dedication keeps everything running and ensures our neighbors are welcomed with kindness and dignity.🥰

We are also grateful for the community agencies and resources that join us to connect our neighbors with much-needed services and support.🥰

Mobile showers are always appreciative, thank you DCM. 🥰

Saturday

Luci Vitorino what a delicious lunch you prepared and donated! The homemade chicken salad was made with love and brought many beautiful smiles to the faces of our neighbors. Let’s not forget you clothing donations.🥰

Haircuts were the specialty, so many were ecastic over their cuts. Smiles. Smiles. And smiles. Thank you Cynthia for your kindness!🥰

We also received much needed donations of body spray and men’s boxer briefs. Every donation helps our neighbors feel clean, comfortable, and cared for.🥰

Thank you Julia Stiles and hubby for the wonderful donations.🥰

Thank you to Saturday’s amazing volunteers: Joan, Manny, Chelsea, Eric, Fillip, Carolin, and Lynn.🥰

A special thank-you to Sara from Southcoast Health Community Outreach for continuing to care for and assist our neighbors.🥰

Thursday and Saturday were filled with great food, helpful resources, generous donations, and compassionate people serving side by side.🥰

This is what THRIVE is all about: compassion, dignity, consistency, and humanity. 🥰

Please consider donating the following, Unfortunately, THRIVE does not have the following hygiene items for a week now.

Deodorant for men and women, razors and shaving cream, brushes/combs, toilet paper, body wash, shampoo and conditioner, nail clippers, lip balm and body spray(found at the Dollar Tree).
Here is the Amazon link if that helps.
Thank you! 🥰

THRIVE | Amazon Gift List