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A Big Tree House..…An ATV.….Dialectical Therapy ! A Fire Escape....A New Front Door….Closed Captioned Gear….A Calculator !
We asked island non-profits about their current needs and this is their response (listed alphabetically by organization). |
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ACE MV provides life-long learning to Islanders and is hoping for 3 scholarships at $300 each for GED, Accuplacer (college entrance) and TEAS (pre-nursing) test prep courses. The new Animal Shelter of Martha’s Vineyard inherited an old building and wishes for $15,750 to replace the heating and cooling system (labor is being donated by island businesses). For stocking stuffers, they have a list of tools registered at Edgartown Hardware. The Aquinnah Cultural Center wishes for a portable Cannon scanner ($100) so they can scan photos and documents of Gay Head/Wampanoag subjects while at someone’s home. Biodiversity Works wishes for a Garmin GPS/Camera combo for mapping otter activity and bird nest sites ($600) and a portable screen ($85) for Vineyard wildlife presentations. Community Solar Greenhouse of MV wishes to install lighting fixtures ($4,000) so they can hold after-school classes for kids and evening workshops for adults. Also, a new front door to keep the plants cozy and warm ($750). The Drum Workshop is working to reduce Palestinian-Israeli tensions and wishes for $10,000 for their Drums to Bethlehem initiative. Groups of teens and women from Israel will drum with groups from Bethlehem, through the fence around the City, and empower both sides to work effectively together.
The FARM Institute is wishing for a quad-runner (ATV) to help with livestock chores, a rototiller for the Friendship Garden and greenhouses, and bug exploration kits for education programs. Featherstone wishes for a flat file storage unit ($1,300) to hold large sheets of paper and artwork as well as a heavy-duty double-sided drying rack ($600) for printmaking students. Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary campers could climb to new heights! They wish for $1,000 to build a tree house in the nature play area. Also, donations to republish Anne Hales’ Vineyard natural history classic, Moraine to Marsh. $5,000 is still needed. Habitat for Humanity wants a few items to run the office more efficiently: an electric stapler, electric 3-hole punch, calculator with paper tape and a digital camera.
Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard wishes for a new fax/copy/scan machine to replace a 7 year old well used one ($3,500). Island Food Pantry wishes for an automatic door opener ($1,500) to assist people the 2,700 times a year they leave carrying 3 bags of food. Island Housing Trust wishes for donated or discounted property/land to create sustainable community housing for the 250+ qualified families looking to buy an affordable home and the 200+ families looking for affordable rental housing. The Marine and Paleobiological Research Institute brings fossils to classrooms and wishes for folding pocket magnifiers for student use and National Fossil Day at the OB Library ($40 each). The all volunteer MV Cancer Support Group wishes to upgrade its web page so Island cancer patients can easily access applications and the wealth of information they’ve compiled. Also donations for ferry ticket books for patients going off island for treatment. The Martha's Vineyard Center for Living wishes for a computer ($2,500) to facilitate their work with the Supportive Day Program, Medical Taxi Program, and Emergency Food Program. Also, $500 to engage more clients with therapy, through musicians, drama teachers, exercise programs, entertainment, etc. Support Martha's Vineyard's Non-Profit Community! |
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Martha’s Vineyard Community Services wishes for $5,000 to replace floors throughout their campus due to flood damage. They also have wishes for some of their major programs:
CONNECT to end violence wishes for T-shirts, stickers, bracelets and ribbons ($2,000) to raise awareness of domestic and sexual violence at MV High School events.
Disability Services would love a laptop ($500) and someone to build a fire escape ($5,000) for their Daybreak Program.
Early Childhood Program wishes for $5,000 for improvements to the infant/toddler and preschool playgrounds.
Island Counseling Center wishes for a radio to improve the atmosphere in their waiting room and matching funds for a grant to train 5 clinicians in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for border-line personality disorder ($1,000).
The Chicken Alley Thrift Shop would love benches to create an outdoor seating area for customers and some new planters/plants for the arbor lining the parking lot.
MV Chamber Music Society hopes to borrow a car for 5 weeks next summer to get musicians to and from rehearsals and concerts. They also want people to house and host visiting musicians for a 4 night stay.
MV Film Festival has expanded their education programs and wishes for 8 iPads ($500 each) for film making classes and animation workshops.
MV Film Society wishes for 3 closed captioned devices for the deaf in their new Film Center ($1,500) and a color laser printer.
MV Men’s Bereavement Group wishes to help Island widowers face the life changing loss of a wife or partner through group support or one on one counseling.
MV Shellfish Group reproduces millions of quahogs annually, but their office can’t reproduce a thing since the death of their 15 year old copy machine which they wish to replace ($2,000).
MV Mediation Program wishes for a couple of hours of computer tech support and a new phone system with speaker phone/conferencing capabilities for meetings and mediations.
The Nature Conservancy wishes for more landowners to improve their backyards as habitat for Vineyard birds, owls, turtles, moths and butterflies by joining the Vineyard Habitat Network. They provide the expertise and native plants to help you manage the ecology of your part of the Vineyard.
Phyllis Vecchia Creative Drama wishes for $3,000 to support her 6th-8th grade Women in History program. Children learn about important women and events while acting in theatre classes in island schools
It was tattered, it was worn, and by Vineyard storms was torn! Polly Hill Arboretum wishes for shade cloth ($500) for the shade house where thousands of plants are produced annually for their collection and for use in Island restoration projects.
Contact Information is available in our or call 508-645-3690 |
Project Headway Preschool, the public school serving students with moderate to significant special needs wishes for $1,000 to add more learning space to their small classroom and $1,000 to finish building a natural playground.
Rising Tide Therapeutic Equestrian Center has cut back operations due to the high cost of leasing indoor facilities in the winter. They wish for a 60’ round pen cover ($18,000) so they can operate from their own facility year round. Also, a large truck load of clean fill to fix a drainage problem in their ring.
Sail Martha’s Vineyard wishes for an automated external defibrillator ($1,200) as a safety measure for the boathouse at the Sailing Camp Park and its classroom in the winter season.
Serving Hands Food Distribution/Family 2 Family operates without an office, phone or computer and wishes for a smart phone and service contract to greatly improve communications with clients, suppliers, delivery people and volunteers.
The Youth Hostel can’t reach their 16’ ceilings and really wishes for a 12’ step ladder. Also, new recreational equipment: a volleyball net & balls, soccer balls, footballs and Frisbees.
Vineyard Baseball, Inc. wishes for a new net for a hitting tunnel ($1,500) used by the High School, Junior League and Little League.
Vineyard Health Care Access wishes for contributions of any amount to their Emergency Prescription Assistance Fund to help uninsured Islanders pay for medicine. This service relies exclusively on donations and uses no County/Town funding.
Vineyard Playhouse wishes to raise the last $500,000 of their $2,200,000 project to expand, restore and renovate their historic home in time to open for the 2013 summer season!
Women Empowered hopes to find rolls of Forever Stamps in their stocking and a new high quality printer/copier/scanner for daily office work and printing flyers under their tree.
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