COMMUNITY OUTREACH

LCR COMMUNITY OUTREACH:

Snowflake making at The Columbia Library with LCR's Community Outreach Coordinator, Lauren! Lauren brought in a crafty class for local homeschoolers! She reviewed a couple recycling and upcycling books with them. Then they got to utilize our overstock of donated plastic beads to create a snowflake - just as unique and individual as themselves.

Check out our Educational Outreach team, Supina Arielle and Nancy with Director Susan Zeran, teaching K-5 students of the Kelly School in Elizabethtown, simple hand sewing techniques. Each student got to make their own festive, plushy pumpkin. Each student also got a mini sewing kit to take with them. Now they know how to sew hems and holes and patches - to help REpair and REuse! One student told us he can't wait to sew up a hole in his teddy bear.

BESIDES MAINTAINING OUR STORE TO PROVIDE ART, CRAFT AND SEWING SUPPLIES AT A REASONABLE COST TO THE COMMUNITY, AT LCR WE ARE COMMITTED TO HELPING OTHER LANCASTER AREA NON-PROFIT GROUPS PROVIDE ART AND OTHER PROGRAMS TO THOSE THEY SERVE.

2020 Free Materials for Community Needs

Lancaster Mask Sewists -  Donated mask making materials for front line medical workers in Lancaster County
Landis Homes
Tel Hai Retirement
Hospice and Community Care
Lancaster County Community Foundation
York City Schools
St. Johns Episcopal Lancaster
Friendship Community
The Worship Center
Lutheran -world-relief
Lancaster Senior Center
Pet Pantry of Lancaster

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-WhartonElementarySchool/671964476252790
https://www.gsep.org/
http://www.casalancaster.org/
https://www.yorkpa.org/resources/visitor-information-centers/
www.MCC.org
www.highlandpc.org/mission/local-outreach/
https://www.pregnancylancaster.com/
https://alignpregnancyservices.com/
https://www.fandm.edu/art/studio-art
https://stjohns-lancaster.org/
https://www.landishomes.org/
https://www.homesteadvillage.org/
www.highlandpc.org/mission/local-outreach/
Blue Ridge Communications- Used and unused cards to be UpCycled for annual Touch a Heart Event to enrich the lives of our communities’ soldiers, veterans, and nursing home residents this Valentine’s Day!
Lancaster Science Factory
Friendship Community Home
Conestoga River G.S. #71497
Lancaster Rec Center
Sunnyside Mennonite Church
Lanc. Mennonite Willow Valley
PA retired teachers assoc.
4C Women's Ministry

2019
DECEMBER
Water Street Mission - over the months of October and November, we did our annual collection for Water Street Mission Health Services raising enough money to gift acrylic paints, brushes, and canvases. They also received small terracotta pots that the clients will paint and use to propagate plants over the winter! The clients were also gifted $80 worth of gift cards to assist them in getting supplemental materials.
Other community projects we have supplied or assisted to fund in December:
Evergreen Estates
Lancaster Rec commission
Wharton PTO
Hands Across the Street
Conestoga River Girl Scouts
Lutheran Good Shepard church
Friendship Community
M.C.C.
Lancaster Science Factory
Nazarene Mt Hope
Highland Presbyterian church

NOVEMBER
Water Street Mission
Sewing Hope
Lancshire Hall
Girl Scouts troop 71450
E.R Elementary Holiday Student Store / PTO
Hamilton Elementary
Southern Historical Society of Lancaster
MCC
Conestoga River Girl Scouts
Elanco Library

OCTOBER
Lancaster Science Factory - we love partnering with the Lancaster Science Factory to help keep their Makers space and STEM workshops stocked full of reusable gizmos.
Boys& Girls Clubhouse
Alzheimer Association
E.R Elementary Holiday Student Store / PTO
G.S. of Penn Manor
Alzheimer’s Assoc
Conestoga River Girl Scouts
Waldorf School

SEPTEMBER
September being Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, in the gratitude of our staff member Arielle - a survivor of childhood cancer and a Make a Wish kid, a check for $75 was provided to our local Make a Wish Foundation.
Able Services
Clare House
Lancaster Creative Factory
Lancaster Rec Center
MCC
Bear Creek School
G.S. of Penn Manor
Brightside Church
The Gatehouse
Thaddeus Stevens College
Lancashire Hall
Homefields

AUGUST
Church World Service   provided backpacks, lunch totes, and all school supplies needed for 4 newly resettled refugee students!
Brightside Opportunity Center (candle making class supplies 40$$) and printer paper, office supplies
Lancaster Country Day School
Sewing Hope
Landis Valley Museum
Pequea Valley Elementary School
St Joseph's CHI
Boys and Girls Club of Lancaster
Make a Wish
Oxford Senior Center
Girl Scout Troop 71076
Carter MacRae Elementary School

JULY
Lancaster Country Day   2019 Summer program
St Joseph's CHI LCR provided various free crafting materials for their educational work
Interim Women's Addiction Recovery Center - provided knitting supplies
Other orgs that received free materials this month:
Conestoga River Day Camp
John Beck Elementary School
Lancaster County Christian School
Sewing Hope
Leola UM Church
Dove Elizabethtown Christian Fellowship
Central Presbyterian Church Pre-School program
Friendship Community
St John Episcopal Church
Able Services
MOPS Quarryville
Boys and Girls Club of Lancaster

JUNE
Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster City Baubles & bling brunch event $75 of materials beads cording and costume jewelry
YWCA Stem Girls Camp free STEM materials
Conestoga River Day Camp
New School of Lancaster
Butler Church of the Nazarene
Glenbrook Road Carpenter Community
YWCA
American Sewing Guild
Saint Norbert's Church
Boys and Girls Club of Lancaster
Cocalico High School

MAY
Hands on House museum- we donated maker space sword up supplies for the weekly STEAM clubhouse art studio
Parish Resource Center - Partnership for free materials for summer lesson planning
San juan baptista LEP program, startup material for weekly sewing classes
Empire Beauty School
Lancaster County Christian School
Girl scout troop 71603
Landisville Cub Scouts PSA
Washington elementary and other SDOL
Conestoga river day camp
CHI Saint Joseph Children's Health
Sewing Hope
Parish Resource Center - 3 boxes miscellaneous materials partnership

APRIL
Revolution
based out of YWCA , we supplied free jewelry making materials to this program empowering women affected by HOMELESSNESS and life barriers
NEXT GENERATION SENIOR CENTER
LCR provided OVER $300 IN WOOD PAINTING PROJECTS COMPLETE WITH PATTERNS AND INSTRUCTION ALONG WITH AND OVER $20 SILK FLOWERS FOR A PROJECT AT THE SENIOR CENTER
Lancaster Recreation Commission
CONESTOGA VIEW NURSING AND REHABILITATION
ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION
GIRL SCOUTS
MANHEIM Central Elementary
Hamilton Park Elementary School
Lancaster Early Education Center
Wheatland Elementary

MARCH
Hands Across the Street - Columbia Presbyterian Church – LCR donated VARIOUS items ranging from sew mending kits to office supplies – to crafting materials for this startup shelter
Alpha Sigma Alpha – benefit the S. June Smith Center
Girl Scout Troops - 71607 70536 71497
DISABILITY EMPOWERMENT CENTER
FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY
Lancaster Recreation Commission
Retired Teachers Association
Donated Sewing machine to Christ Evangelist Church Sewing Group – sewing and sending materials to those in need

FEBRUARY
WATER STREET MISSION - donated knitting materials, and other materials to provide art therapy and nurture self-care skills for their residents / recipients
Lancaster Science Factory
Conestoga Valley High School – Theater Department
Friendship Community
Girl Scout Troop 131 Girl Scout Troop 71623 Girl Scout Troop 71497
Lancashire Hall
THE OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL

JANUARY
Church World Services – donated tote employment kits / gift cards for work boots for refugees being resettled into the Lancaster area
Water Street Mission – donated coloring books (adult and child), yarn, soap, hygiene kits/products, scarves
Lancaster Science Factory – donated various electrical and STEAM items for them to dismantle in their programs
Conestoga Valley High School: drama Department
Friendship Community

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