Look What's Happening at Methodist Services: Late Summer 2024!

Methodist Services' Heritage 2024 Summer Camp...it's a wrap! Campers experienced indoor and outdoor activities including an array of sports, swim instruction, art and performance arts, as well as off-site outings and experiences. Our final camp trip brought together 300 campers & staff at Clementon Park, NJ! A great time was had by all! See you next year, campers & families!

Hundreds of Methodist Services’ Summer Camp campers, counselors, staff & families immersed themselves in the rich tapestry of creativity, demonstrating to all what our young artists have to offer! The “Dollz of Dance!” Gifted & talented!

Backpacks, School Supplies & Other Giveaways!! 160 people attended a recent Community Event, hosted by Methodist Services at Tilden. In addition, 130 people participated in a Back-to-School Event, hosted by Methodist Services at Gideon. Methodist Services is proud to support the families and school personnel associated with the City of Philadelphia’s Community Schools Program!

Please support Methodist Services' School Uniforms Mini-Campaign. A standard uniform set will cost $75 per child or $100 per teenager. Now accepting uniform donations through September 13th. Click on the "Purchase Uniforms" button below.

PURCHASE UNIFORMS!

Methodist Services’ leadership joined Schultz & Williams at the “19th Annual Bridge to Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference,” in National Harbor, Maryland, to present The Power of Inclusivity in Strategic Planning. Dynamic & Compelling!

We are pleased to announce that former Board member, Lee Rosengard, has been selected, posthumously, as Methodist Home for Children System’s 2024 Volunteer Excellence Award Recipient! Lee was a powerful, consequential Board member.

Lee provided a vital role, ensuring that Methodist emerged strong from the pandemic and experienced a smooth leadership transition. He was essential in guiding and supporting the overall goals of the agency and the Board of Directors. We are forever grateful for his service & lasting legacy to the Methodist Home for Children Board.

Lee spent his 41-year legal career at Philadelphia-based Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young, LLP, retiring as a litigation partner in December 2017. For over ten years, he taught Introduction to US Law and Legal Methods for the Penn Carey Law - Master in Law Program. He had decades of experience trying and settling cases, both as a litigator and as an Alternative Dispute Resolution provider. His most precious asset was his family who gave him great joy.

We are happy to announce that Cradles to Crayons (C2C) has been selected as the 2024 Methodist Home for Children System - George Bonadio Leadership Award Recipient! Cradles to Crayons provides a stellar national/regional/local model for engaged, impactful, resource-laden, collaborative partnerships. This award acknowledges the crucial work that C2C has done with Methodist Services, a C2C Service Partner.

Throughout the years, our families have asserted the need for children's clothing. Through Cradles to Crayons' donations of bulk clothing, winter coats, pajamas & underwear, diapers & wipes, hygiene items and shoes, Methodist Services is able to provide these necessary items, along with life skills regarding how to maintain these items and increase parents' self-sufficiency.

Cradles to Crayons provides children from birth to age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive – at home, at school and at play.

Methodist Services was honored to be a recipient of a prestigious 2024 Chairman’s Council Clothing Insecurity Impact Award!

George Bonadio worked at CPV Manufacturing for over 50 years, where he was President before retiring in 2014. George strongly believed in the importance of giving back to his community and volunteered countless hours for several organizations. He served for many years as an esteemed Board Chair for the Methodist Home for Children.

From Heritage Farm - Farm Manager, Ryan Curran:

"After several weeks of beautiful weather, Heritage Farm is in the final Fall push: planting cabbage, carrots, collards, kale, lettuce & radishes. Salad greens enrich Educare students’ lunches while a small Market Stand is available to campers & their parents. A monarch butterfly enjoys the nectar of a milkweed (or butterflyweed) flower, planted this year in a perennial Farm section."

Thank You For Donating New & Unwrapped Gifts!

Ways To Participate

ONLINE Make a secure online donation via methodistservices.org & click “Donate Now” and Choose "Holiday Gift" in the drop-down menu.

BY MAIL Make a cash donation via check, payable to Methodist Services, 4300 Monument Road, Philadelphia, PA 19131 ATTN: Holiday Gift.

DROP OFF & PICK UP – BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

If you’d like to donate new, unwrapped toys or gifts, gift cards, or arts & crafts, contact Carole Boughter, cboughter@methodistservices.org or 215-877-1925 ext 104.

We're moving up our in-hand submission date: Week of December 9. Additionally, our families treasure Gift Cards of any value from Target, Kohl’s, Walmart, Best Buy & Old Navy. We also appreciate receiving wrapping paper, gift bags and bows.

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Methodist Services offers Early Childhood Education Programs for children, birth to 5 years old. High quality, free childcare available. Learn basic eligibility requirements for Methodist Services' Educare Learning Center programs.

Contact Charise Stewart via cstewart@methodistservices.org

or 215-877-1925 ext 301