Service at Sage

In the 2010-2011 school year, Sage celebrated its 20th anniversary with a community service initiative called “20 for 20.” To mark this important milestone, students, parents, faculty, and staff performed over 20 acts of kindness, service, and good work that benefited Foxboro and the surrounding communities. Donating warm coats for kids, cleaning up along the Charles River, and running in a 5k for diabetes were just some of the service projects the school organized for its 20 for 20 initiative.

This project united the whole school in a celebration of service that has become a permanent school-wide fixture of the Sage experience.

Here are some of our service projects for the 2011-2012 year:

• Mainspring House - Junior Division February 14, 2012

  

  On Friday, February 10, the Junior Division prepared 100 lunches for families staying at Mainspring House, a homeless shelter in Brockton. Mainspring House is a program that helps people obtain a home by giving temporary shelter and food, finding safe and affordable housing, and providing permanent housing with supportive services.

   

   

   

   

• Toys for Tots December 19, 2011

  

   

  The Sage School faculty and staff donated 40 unwrapped toys for the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots program.

   

   

   

   

   

• Foxboro Discretionary Fund - Gift Drive December 19, 2011

  Each Middle School and Junior classroom, as well as the Sage Administration Team, were given the age and gender of a local child whose family was in need of assistance during the holidays. In early December, the Middle School students, using money they had earned doing chores, went on a shopping field trip to purchase gifts for those families.

   

• Mainspring House November 29, 2011

  On Tuesday, November 29 the Prime Division prepared 100 lunches for families staying at Mainspring House, a homeless shelter in Brockton. Mainspring House is a program that helps people obtain a home by giving temporary shelter and food, finding safe and affordable housing, and providing permanent housing with supportive services.

   

   

• Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF November 29, 2011

  This year, an unusual October snowstorm caused power outages in Foxboro and other communities. Many towns had to cancel or postpone trick-or-treating.  Nevertheless, Sage students were able to collect $366.25 to support UNICEF, an organization that provides medicine, better nutrition, safe water, education, emergency relief and other support to children in more than 150 countries around the world.