Your donations made a difference for these great organizations in 2024!

Organization Name: The Little Fox – Toby’s Foundation

Location: Monroeville, PA

The Little Fox – Toby’s Foundation in Monroeville, PA, supports families grieving the loss of an infant through workshops and weekend grief retreats. The 2024 Community Grant Award has enabled Toby’s Foundation to host two additional retreat weekends, a Grieving Mother’s Retreat and a Grieving Parents Retreat, that were not planned for this year.

“This retreat gave me more than I could have ever thought. Safe and support are two key words I felt my entire stay. But since I have left, I have so much more hope in my life. My life is forever changed. I gained a family. And I’m really hoping to be a close part of the Toby’s Foundation for years to come.” – Grieving Mother

Organization Name: Hopebound Ministries Inc., DBA Mooncrest Neighborhood Programs

Location: Moon Twp., PA

Mooncrest Neighborhood Programs in Moon Township, PA, offers a variety of services to promote spiritual, intellectual, physical, social and emotional development for local children and families.

The 2024 Community Grant Award helped fund a summer camp to keep 75 children engaged, enriched, challenged and fed each day so they could returned to school without “summer slide,” the learning loss that often occurs during summer break.

“Being kind” is an ongoing theme at summer camp. On the final day, a spontaneous act of kindness created a heartwarming ripple effect. Campers prize points for daily reading to select new toys and games at the end of camp celebration. Before awarding prizes, campers played Book Bingo to win books. One of the first winners, a fifth grader, opted to have her younger second grade sister pick her book prize. From that point, without any prompting from staff, every middle school student who won Bingo chose a younger student

and escorted their chosen student to the prize table to help them select a prize book. The “Bigs” conspired together to make sure every “Little” was picked. The younger children were honored by the attention from the “Bigs” and with the prize, and the middle school student’s actions provided affirmation to staff that gentle lessons of kindness throughout the summer were heard and put in practice.

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