Community Connections

August 2025

1st Edition

You Can Make a Child's

First Day of School Successful!

Our children need your help!

We have 70 children on our Back-to-School list that still need financial support so that they can start the school year prepared and ready to learn.


With only 2 weeks left in our drive, the Gene and Marlene Epstein Humanitarian Fund has generously agreed to match $100 for every $100 that comes in for our remaining children.

Volunteers Needed to Fill Empty Chairs!

Love to chat about BCOC? Always telling your friends about the work we do? We need your voice and your help at our table at the Middletown Grange Fair August 13-17. Please sign up for a shift handing out materials and sharing everything BCOC with the community at the fair. It's a great way to help us help others...and you make all the difference!

Thank you for all of the amazing work at

Hope of the Harvest in July!

We are incredibly grateful to all of our volunteers who donated their time and sweat equity to harvesting at Delaware Valley University last month. Fresh fruit and veggies headed straight from the fields to Fresh Connect and pantry shelves for our neighbors to enjoy! We could not do this without all of your helpful hands! Amazing...and oh, those peaches!!!


Make some peach cobbler! Full recipe here!

July volunteers included: BLBB, Toll Brothers, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, DVL, the Next Steps program and many amazing individuals!

Claire-Intern Extraordinaire

Through Foundations Community Partnership's Summer Youth Corps, BCOC welcomed Claire, a senior at Pitt, as an intern. She hit the ground running and became a valuable asset on our team. From fine-tuning and enhancing our Poverty Simulation, creating a Bucks County specific Mini-Poverty Simulation, delivering senior food boxes, participating in Fresh Connect and Hope of the Harvest, and assisting with Back to School, Claire jumped in wherever she was needed. We see an incredibly bright future for this outstanding human! We are grateful for her hard work and are sure of her continued success.

Pathways House in Bensalem gets an outdoor refresh by Charles River Labs!

Thank you!!!

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