BJ's August 30th - September 28th COUPON BOOK HAS ARRIVED

For all our faithful BJ's coupon donators the new coupon book has arrived.

The following coupons are the ones we can use:

NutriGrain Bars $2.50 coupon
Oreo & Chips Ahoy! Variety Pack $2.00 coupon
Cheez-Its $2.50 coupon
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese $3.50 coupon
Chef Boyardee $2.00 coupon

Please send your coupons to:

Kylee's Kare Kits for Kidz, Inc
68 Main Street # 564
Leominster, MA 01453

Thanks for your support!!

THANK YOU TO OUR FABULOUS COMMUNITY FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF OUR SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE

We would like to thank our community for the tremendous support they gave us in our mission to provide backpacks and school supplies to our kidz!! From our first donation from our supporter Kendra who sent us boxes full of backpacks and supplies to Welch's in Concord and the many friends, family members and members of the community who donated backpacks and supplies we can't express how grateful we are for your support. The smiles on the faces of the children as we have been delivering the backpacks filled with supplies to them has been heart warming.Please know we greatly appreciate your continued support!!!

THANK YOU TO THE ROTARY CLUB OF CONCORD

Thank you to Ms. Leigh Ann Crimmings, the President Elect of the Rotary Club of Concord, for inviting me to speak at a recent meeting about my mission to help the food insecure children in our community. It was nice to meet everyone and to share the work that my team and I do to help the community. I appreciate the support you all offered me that day!!

THANK YOU TO THE STAFF OF ROBERT ALARIO, CPA

We'd like to thank the staff at the office of Robert Alario, CPA for their recent donation of school supplies and backpacks for our kids!! We greatly appreciate your continued support of our mission to help the children in our community!!

THANK YOU TO WELCH'S IN CONCORD FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATION OF FIFTY BACKPACKS FOR OUR KIDS

We would like to thank Heather Perkins and Tammy Walsh of Welch's and all their fellow employees for donating FIFTY fully packed back packs for our kids!! Each backpack even had a jar of Welch's Grape Jelly for the kids!! We greatly appreciate the generosity and kindness. You made 50 children very happy!!

THANK YOU TO ANOTHER AMAZING YOUNG MAN - DOMINIC

When it was time to celebrate his birthday recently Dominic Ciccone decided that he would like his family and friends to purchase food items to donate for our kids!! Dominic's Mom reached out to us and made plans to deliver his "birthday gifts" to us!! Dominic and his sister, Natalie, came with their parents to deliver the donation of food. We would like to thank Dominic and his family and friends for their kindness and generosity. It is because of people like all of you that we are able to help the kids. Dominic's family must be very proud of him!! We know we are!!

ANOTHER AMAZING DONATION FROM OUR YOUNGEST DONOR ONE YEAR OLD BRAYDEN

 We would like to thank Jessica & Jason and their son Brayden for thinking of our kids when Brayden's first birthday was approaching. Instead of receiving gifts for Brayden they opted to request that family and friends make donations of food and school supplies for our kids!! We were amazed by the generosity. Thank you for teaching Brayden at such a young age that it is better to give than receive. It is because of people like all of you that we can help the kids!!

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO RYAN & KAMDEN SNOWDON

Most children look forward to the gifts they will receive for their birthday. For the second year in a row Ryan Snowdon gave up his birthday gifts for our kids! This year for his 4th birthday he and his brother Kamden, who was celebrating his 2nd birthday, asked family and friends to purchase school supplies for our kids instead of buying gifts for them!! His parents Andrew & Tricia must be very proud of their sons! They are learning at a very young age that it is better to give than to receive. Thank you Ryan & Kamden!!! We are proud of you!!

THANKS TO PEACE FIRST FOR INVITING ME TO PARTICIPATE IN THEIR PEACE FIRST GATHERING

I am honored to have been invited to participate in the 5 day Peace First Gathering recently in Boston. During this event 14 youth leaders/designers, ages 11 to 23, from around the country gathered to work with Peace First founder & CEO Eric Dawson and members of the Peace First staff to help expand the peacemaking initiatives of their non-profit organization. I was the second youngest designer in the group and enjoyed the opportunity to contribute and be a part of this mission to expand Peace First’s peacemaking initiative. Thank you to Eric for giving me this awesome opportunity!! I will continue to work with them as they launch the Peace First Challenge.

Thank you to City Year and The Boston Foundation for hosting the gathering and all the organizations and individuals that contributed to the gathering.

This fall Peace First will be launching an opportunity for young people from around the globe to join as a peacemaker to help make positive changes in the world. Introducing the Peace First Challenge - “A call to action to young people around the world to identify an injustice and solve it using the tools of peacemaking.” “We believe in the power of young people to change the world, not someday in the future, right now!” Please go to their website at www.peacefirst.org to learn more about the opportunity.

If you are interested in becoming a peacemaker go to the Manifesto Tab on their website where you can sign the Manifesto to make a commitment to become a peacemaker. Peace First will then reach out to you once the initiative is launched.

The Peace First Manifesto:
“The world is a harsh place. People are treated unfairly. People are scared. People get hurt. This matters because people matter. All people. I know I can’t be perfect. I know I cannot fix everything. But I can make a choice. I can choose to be a peacemaker. And I commit to making this choice, every day.”

As we have learned you are never too young to contribute and make a change in the world. Please reach out and be the change that you would like to see in the world!!

Kylee McCumber
Kylee’s Kare Kits for Kidz, Inc
August 2016

LEOMINSTER'S FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE SUPPORTS OUR KIDZ

The Leominster Flag Football League has recently supported our mission of feeding the food insecure children within our community. On their Championship Day in June they asked all league players to donate one of the needed food items that we include in our kare kits.

Kylee was at Doyle Field that day to spread the word about her mission. We greatly appreciate Andrea Lastella organizing this food drive for our kidz!

Thank you all so much for all your support!! It is because of people like you that we are able to help the kidz!!

June 2016

KIDS HELPING KIDS AT FILL A TRUCK EVENT

We wanted to share with everyone that not only did we have adults from the community supporting our Fill A Truck event but we had many children involved as well. It was wonderful to see the number of parents who got their young children involved in purchasing a food item or a bag of food for our kidz. It was fabulous to see their parents teaching them to give to others!! We would like to say thank you so much!

There were many children who walked up to us with a food item over the two days and we had a family willing to have us include their children in a photo with Kylee. Emma & Nina Petricca donated food for our kidz and this isn't the first time that Emma has helped our mission. While a kindergarten student at Priest St School she also helped with a food drive!!

Thank you to all the children who have helped us to feed the food insecure children in our community!! You should all be very proud of yourselves!!

BJ's July 28th - August 5th COUPON BOOK HAS ARRIVED

For all our faithful BJ's coupon donators the new coupon book has arrived.

The following coupons are the ones we can use:

Goldfish $1.00 coupon
Oreo Cookies/Ritz Cracker $4.00 coupon
Snack Pack Pudding $1.50 coupon
Quaker Chewy Variety Pack Granola Bars $2.50 coupo
Pirates Booty $2.25 coupon
Skinny Popcorn $2.50 coupon
Jumbo Kellogs Cereal 30 pack $2.00 coupon
DelMonte Fruit Cups $2.00 coupon
Dole Fruit Bowls $1.50 coupon
Motts Organic Applesauce $2.50 coupon
Nature Valley Bars $2.00 coupon
Annie's Cookie Bites or Graham Snacks $3.00 coupon
Kettlecorn 24 pack $1.75 coupon

Please send your coupons to:

Kylee's Kare Kits for Kidz, Inc
68 Main Street # 564
Leominster, MA 01453

Thanks for your support!!

KOHLS EMPLOYEES KARE ABOUT OUR KIDZ

We would like to once again thank Tammie Bradley and her fellow employees at Kohls in Leominster for packing kare kits for our kidz! We greatly appreciate your continued support of our mission to feeding the food insecure children in our community!! We are so grateful to have you all in our kare kit family!!

A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MICHAEL ROSENBERG AND PROMOTION IN MOTION - THE MAKERS OF WELCH'S FRUIT SNACKS

I would like to thank Michael Rosenberg, the owner and CEO of Promotion in Motion the makers of Welch's Fruit Snacks and many other delicious goodies, for his continued support of our mission to feed the food insecure children in our community!!

At the end of May 2016 Michael invited me to attend the Sweets & Snacks Expo in Chicago. This is the snack food industries lar...gest trade show and the second year that Michael invited me and my grandmother to be his guest at the show. I was able to walk the trade show floor and speak with representatives from many different companies in hopes of making new connections.

Michael also provides us with fruit snacks and fruit rolls for all of our kare kits! His kindness and generosity is truly amazing. He certainly has many more important things to attend to than helping a 14 year old girl with her mission but has continued to be there for me and my kids.

Michael, his family and the Promotion In Motion Family have been there for me and I truly appreciate it.

Michael thank you for your kindness, generosity and for ALWAYS being there for me!! I am so grateful to have you in my life!!

With love,

Kylee

THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY FOR EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED OUR 2ND ANNUAL FILL A TRUCK EVENT

We would like to thank everyone who came out to support our 2nd Annual Fill A Truck event that was held at Market Basket in Leominster this past weekend. First we would like to thank Market Basket for all their support. Your employees went above and beyond to support our efforts!!

A special thank you to all who volunteered to help us man the tables at the event. We had kare kit team members, family and friends who worked long hours on both days. A very special thank you to our new friends from the Apple Stores in Marlboro and Natick - Matthew, Tia and Taylor who came out to lend a hand.

We cannot truly express the gratitude we feel to everyone who donated food items, made a monetary donation or just stopped by to encourage us with our mission to help feed the food insecure children in our community!! The kindness and generosity shown to us was truly amazing! This is a misssion that would not be possible without the support of all of you. It takes a village to make this all happen and we have a fabulous village!!

The amount of food and monetary donations we received will help us to help so many children. We will be forever grateful to you all!!

 With warmest regards,

 Kylee and the kare kit team
The photos below are from the event and the last two photos are of our Kare Kit Kastle that we work out of with low stocked shelves and the next shows the shelves at the end of the event!!! Thank you so very much for your kindness and generosity!!

July 29 & 30, 2016