Support Empower Children for Success: How You Can Help

You can support us with your time, your knowledge, and direct donations. Together, we can build stronger families, resilient children, and thriving communities across North Central Massachusetts.

Ways to Get Involved

  • Early Childhood Educators & Policy Advocates: We welcome early education and care professionals to join our movement. Partner with us and our collaborator, Gardner Child Care Policy Advocacy Program to advocate for high-quality childcare, support home-based early educators, and champion policy solutions for children and families locally and statewide.
  • Families & Caregivers: We need parents, grandparents, foster parents, and extended family members to join our efforts. Learn how to build household resilience, access vital community resources, and advocate for children in your neighborhood.
  • Housing Stewards & Landlords: Participate in or help facilitate and share your knowledge and expertise for our Landlord Steward Training Program in partnership with NewVue Communities and Gardner Child Care Policy Advoicacy Program. Help us build strong landlord-tenant relationships, protect family housing stability, support home-based childcare programs in rental properties, and maintain safe, stable housing for local childrenand foster safe living environments for children.
  • Professional Volunteers: We are actively seeking professional expertise to help scale our organizational impact. If you have experience in accounting, grant writing, legal compliance, marketing/public relations, strategic planning, technology, or business administration, please contact us to lend your skills.

Your Direct Donation at Work

Please consider donating whatever you can afford to advance our mission. You can also amplify our impact by sharing our work with friends, colleagues, and family on social media!

How Your Support Drives Real Community Change:

  • $25 — Nutrition Support Card: Funds one $25 grocery store gift card through our Swipe Out Hunger program, giving a food-insecure family at Highland Food Pantry the immediate flexibility to buy fresh produce, milk, infant formula, and essential perishables.
  • $50 — Personal Hygiene Kit: Supplies essential personal care items (soap, dental products, household supplies) for a local family facing financial hardship.
  • $100 — Personalized Calming Kit for One Child: Your generous donation of $100 funds an anti-anxiety sensory kit, individually tailored to support emotional regulation, reduce toxic stress, and foster healthy behavioral development for a child in need.

Inside a Personalized Calming Kit:

Each kit is customized based on a child’s specific sensory and emotional needs. Items may include: calm-down cards, chewelry, weighted stuffed animals or blankets, noise-canceling headphones, emotion/affirmation cards, scented playdough, stress balls, water bottles with chewable straws, sound machines, fidgets, liquid motion timers, feeling books, textured sensory balls, and pinwheels.