Multi-Arts Workshop

Create a movie about your family

Celebrate your holidays with an entertaining short movie about your
family. Bring a smile and a warm feeling to your family party

Two hours individual workshop with Multi-Arts

Fee: $45 / $25 for Multi-Arts’ members/ $15 low income families
Saturday, November 23th
Place: Multi-Arts, Hadley

To register email us at info@multi-arts.org
For more info: 413-584-7951

Your family will laugh, feel moved and have fun together

Amherst Survival Center Gift Program

Holiday Gift Program
  
Register as a Gift Giver!

This holiday season you can SIGN UP to be a donor and buy a holiday gift for a child in our community.

You sign up and we will share with you:
the child’s age, gender, a specific gift they’ll enjoy at a value of $25.00-$50.00

It’s so easy: register with the Center, then bring your gifts to the Amherst Survival Center by December 6 or bring them to the Immanuel Lutheran Church on December 10.

Gifts will be distributed to all children on December 11.
Families are already signing up their children for this program.

Who can sponsor a child for a holiday gift?
   

• Workplaces
• Stores
• Student groups (for e.g. fraternities, sororities, classes, scouting organizations)
• Sports teams
• Faith-based congregations
• Families

To register contact Tim Kennedy at 549-3968 x101 or e-mail Tim at tim@amherstsurvival.org.

Amherst Education Foundation

Giving Thanks for Our Great Schools

Valley Gives is an online day of giving for hundreds of nonprofits throughout the Pioneer Valley, organized by the Community Foundation of Western MA. 

Thanks to you, last year AEF participated & raised funds vital to our grant making.  We were also lucky to earn special prize money for having so many donors!  In fact, we earned $20,000! 

 We hope that you’ll join us again this year.  In fact, share this news with your friends & invite them to give what they can to help keep our schools strong!

Check out our fun 45 second video!

Why do you love our schools?

 
Please help us today AND on the 12th!:

·         Like AEF on Facebook & follow us on Twitter to learn more about the grants that your donations help to fund.

·         Mark your calendars for 12.12.13!

·         Bookmark our Valley Gives website:  http://valleygives.razoo.com/story/Amherstedfound.

·         Tell your friends to join us too!  Let’s get the entire community to step up for our schools!!

·         ... Then make your donation on 12.12.13!

Fort River PGO Doughnut Fundraiser!

DOUGHNUT ORDERS ARE DUE THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21st!!! 

No school on Friday!

Payment for the orders (cash or check made out to Fort River PGO) must be submitted with the orders!

Don't miss out on this delicious opportunity to support Fort River Elementary!

PICK-UP INFORMATION:

Your fresh baked doughnut orders will be ready to be picked up in the Fort River front lobby after school next Tuesday, November 26th until 4:30

and

Wednesday, November 27th until 1:00

Please contact Dawn Lepere at dawnlepere@gmail.com or 835-0164 with any questions.

Warm Winter Clothing Share

Amherst Education Foundation

Panel on Affordable Housing in Amherst

Event: Panel: "Amherst: The Challenge of Affordable Housing"

Panelists: Jan Dizard of Interfaith Housing, Inc.; Connie Kruger of Amherst Housing Authority Board of Commissioners; Denise LeDuc of Amherst Housing Authority; Greg Stutsman of Housing and Sheltering Committee

Date: Thursday, November 21

Time: 7:00- 8:30 pm

Place: Woodbury Room, Jones Library, 43 Amity St., Amherst

Free and open to the public

Sponsor: League of Women Voters, Amherst

For more information: www.lwvamherst.org
LWVAmherst 253-0633