Our Mission is to end hunger and its root
causes by offering a myriad of emergency and empowerment services in the
communities we serve.
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Donation Drop Off & Walk-in Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8:30am - 4:00pm
Food Pantry Hours:
Our Food Pantry is located in our main office at 371 Cabot Street in Beverly. Hours are:
Monday-Friday, 11:00am –12:30pm and
Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 5:00 - 6:30pm.
For more information, please call 978-927-1561.
Visit our main office at 371 Cabot Street in Beverly
Benefiting Bootstraps!
What if Beverly Bootstraps earned money every time you searched the internet or shopped. Click to read more.
Sweet Peas Garden
The Homework Club kids, with the help of one of our long-time Community Gardeners Sheila Ouellette, created container gardens and named it Sweet Peas. Thanks to a Friend of Beverly Bootstraps, all the gardening supplies were generously donated.
The kids are invested enough in their plots that we hope to see them each week through the summer. They have already harvested radishes, spinach and lettuce - what tasty salads - with pea pods, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini and carrots to come. They will even donate some of their crop to the Food Pantry!
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS GOLF CLASSIC
AT ESSEX COUNTY CLUB
Please save the date for the Beverly Bootstraps Golf Classic:
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Noon Box Lunch
1 pm Shotgun Start
Essex County Club
Manchester, Massachusetts
Many sponsorships are still available. For more information or to reserve a space, please contact Amy Murphy at Bootstraps, 978-927-1561, x24.
All proceeds to benefit Beverly Bootstraps
Beverly Bootstraps Community Services is proud to be a North Shore United Way Community Partner
Bootstraps Happenings:
Summer Park Lunch Program | Sweet Peas Youth Literacy | Back to School | Golf
We thank you for your creativity!
Over the month of May, we received over 150 suggested names for our thrift store.
The winner is:
The Boots, Straps & More staff is thrilled with its new name.
Please join us for our grand reopening:
Saturday, July 25th
9:30 am - 1:30 pm
198 Rantoul Street
Along with our new name, we will be celebrating our additional retail space. With more retail space, we will be able to offer a larger array of quality goods to our customers, secure more donations and continue to provide discounts to low-income individuals.
Summer Park Lunch Program
Our Summer Park Lunch Program is an 8-week outreach to local children who are at risk of going with
out a noon meal. Bootstraps supplies seven parks, located in low-income neighborhoods, with nutritious lunches. Volunteers are needed to make and deliver these lunches. A commitment of one day a week to one park location over the 8 weeks is helpful.
We are in great need of:
- Juice Boxes (100% Juice)
- Individually packaged snacks
- Granola bars
- Individually packaged cheese sticks
- Whole Fruits
- Individually packaged vegetables
- Individually packaged yogurts or yogurts
*We are trying to avoid peanuts and tree nut processed snacks due to allergies.
For additional information please contact Kathy Kirlis, Food Pantry Coordinator.
Youth Literacy
Each summer Beverly Bootstraps Community Services partners with the Beverly Recreation Department to deliver books to parks located in low-income neighborhoods.
This summer we have had the great fortune to team up with local bookstores who are supplying us with brand new books to distribute. If you would like to donate books to Bootstraps, we are in need of books on the children's school summer reading list. For a complete summer reading list please choose one of the following links.
Beverly High School Summer Reading list
Briscoe Summer Reading List Grade 6
Briscoe Summer Reading List Grade 7-8
Back to School Bonanza
The Back-to-School Program has been supplying back-packs filled with school supplies to children living in low-income for the past 9 years. In 2008, more than 475 children came to to Bootstraps for school supplies worth more than $42,000 of donated new backpacks filled with school supplies.
We collect the following items in May, June & July to distribute in late August:
- Backpacks, Folders, Pack of Erasers
- Pencil Cases, Packs of Pens, Crayons
- Pencil Sharpeners, Rulers, Safety Scissors
- Packs of Pencils, Binders, Loose-leaf Paper
- Spiral Notebooks, Colored Pencils, Highlighters
- Assignment Pads, Composition Books, Protractors
- 3 x 5 Index Cards
Click on the video to the right to see last year's distribution.