The Youth Center would like to extend a very appreciative thank you to the following list who donated items and/or their time to the Center:
- Anonymous donor for their annual gift of $1000.00 for GivingTuesday;
- Milford Junior Women’s Club for donating their remaining funds of $643.59 towards the Center;
- Sandra Baldi for her $50 donation;
- Phyllis Foley for her donation of $25 in memory of Maria Abrantes;
- YouthWorks for the opportunity to employee youth during their full-year program;
- Milford Food Service Program, CACFP and the Hockomock YMCA for providing dinners and snacks to our after school members;
- Lena Pires for donating a foosball table for the game room;
- California Closets for donating furniture to our Multimedia space;
- Hockomock Area YMCA for continuing to offer their Mobile Food Truck to our participants once/month;
- UMass Memorial Health – Milford Regional Medical Center for collaborating on our wellness and fitness programming;
- Lamberts for donating pumpkins for our October gardening program;
- Milford Federal for donating leftover pumpkins from their pumpkin patch for programming;
- Maria Lennan for her donation of various puzzles;
- Ray Auger and his morning show, Raydio for having us on his morning show to share about our upcoming events (click here for link);
- Cornerstone at Milford for donating Halloween goodie bags for the Afterschool members;
- The ‘Food Fairies’ for donating 16 gallons of Sunny D for our weekend food bags;
- Boston Sports Institute for donating a signed puck from the Boston Fleet Women’s hockey team;
- Cornerstone of Milford’s Nancy Christie, Frances Leblanc, Barbara Winters, Michael Damiano, Jennifer Hozempa and Leah Martel for painting pumpkins with the youth during the afterschool program;
- ClimateThrive Consulting with a team from the Town of Milford who visited the MYC (Elizabeth Mainini, Jim Asam, Matt Benoit, Danielle Dolan, Ana Loja, Noah Sullivan) so they could get the kids input on potential future park space projects in Milford (for survey, click here);
- Carly Fauth of FitFunCarly for running a Nutrition program;
- Milford TV’s Dominique and Chase for running our Milford TV program for the afterschool program;
- Seven Hills Foundation for helping pack our weekend food bags for our families;
- Volunteers/Outside Services: Dr. Robert Gilmore for running our yearly fishing program; Bill Farrell, Judy Tusino and Pamela Hunter for packing the afterschool dinners; Vicki Parabicoli for running our monthly sewing program; Brian Bell for running our boxing program; Dee Burley and Phyllis Foley for running our gardening program; James Brevigleiri for volunteering during the after school program; everyone who volunteered to help with the escape room (Ryker Fauth, John Dulude, Jay Vaz, Alison Stienstra, Hannah Konstanek and Jepherson Avelar); for all our Board Members for meeting monthly to help oversee this amazing asset to the community!
The Youth Center relies on donations to help sustain our programs! Please contact the Center if you would like to donate or click here.
