Chickadeeds

Registration is now open for our March event, supporting the urgent work of Preble Street!

Preble Street currently cooks and distributes 2,800 meals per day and is working toward a goal of stockpiling 50,000 frozen emergency meals.

During this event onsite at their newly expanded Food Security Hub in South Portland, volunteers will divide into stations to help with all aspects of Preble Street’s operations:

🧑‍🍳 Help with Kitchen Prep
👝 Stuff brown bag mobile snacks
🥪 Make PB&Js
🥜 Prep bags of Trail Mix
🍪Make sandwich cookies
🧦 Bundle donated socks for distribution
🍲Take a tour of the newly expanded Food Security Hub

BRING YOUR OWN:
• Reusable water bottles for hydration
• Optional donations at check-in from Preble St’s pantry list:
- Trail mix ingredients such as M&Ms, chocolate chips, pretzels, and other fun mixings. We have nuts and dried fruits covered!
- Pasta, pasta sauce, jams or jellys

Nonprofit Partner:

www.chickadeeds.org/events to register!

Thank you Holiday Bash Volunteers + Present Donors!

For the 4th year in a row, we tapped into some serious collective cheer to throw the 2025 Holiday Bash at the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Maine for 170 club members and their staff!

Together in advance of the event, we:

🎁 Collected 170 gifts from the Club’s holiday gift wishlist
🧤Collected warm clothing items for the Club’s free closet

Then together at the event, we

🙌 Gathered 60 volunteers to pull off the Holiday Bash at the Club!
⛄ Decked the Club’s lobby hall for the season
💌 Led a craft holiday photo card station for kids to bring home
✂️ Had a blast making festive, holiday colored paper chains
❄️ Led a snowflake ornament making station
⛄ Led 2 pin-the-nose on the snowman game stations
☕ Whipped up a hot cocoa bar
🎄Led a yummy holiday tree cake decorating station
🥾Organized the Club’s Free Closet + added new winter donations
🍽️ Served a homemade 4 course meal for kids and staff
🎁 Handed out presents from the Club’s wishlist
🍫 Distributed donated Lake Champlain vegan caramel chocolate bags
⏳ Donated a total of 150 hours of service

Nonprofit partner: Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine
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