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GVCO Caring Hands community events coming up!

Alongside our 2nd Annual GVCO Caring Hands and Cradles to Crayons Donation Drive, GVCO Caring Hands is sponsoring a TENT SALE of wonderful new Gifts, Holiday Decorations and Home Decor that you just have to see!

Proceeds from the sale will raise funds for our "Families in Need" initiative.

Please plan to stop by and shop!
Location: GVCO Field, 51 N. Bacton Hill Rd, Malvern, PA

GVCO Caring Hands TENT Sale and Cradles to Crayons drop-off schedule:

Saturday, October 24/ Sunday, October 25 9am – 3pm

Saturday, October 31/ Sunday, November 1 9am – 3pm

Saturday, November 7/ Sunday, November 8 9am – 3pm

Special “PREVIEW” Sale: Friday, October 23 3pm – 6pm

GVCO Caring Hands community events coming up!

Our 2nd Annual GVCO Caring Hands and Cradles to Crayons Donation Drive starts at the end of the month. Please support children and families with much needed items for their "KidPacks". We will be collecting your donations on site at the GVCO field parking lot. Cradles to Crayons Donation Items Needed

On the same weekends, GVCO Caring Hands is sponsoring a Tent Sale of all new Gifts, Holiday Decorations and Home Decor to raise funds for our "Families in Need" initiative.

Please plan to stop by!

GVCO Caring Hands TENT Sale and Cradles to Crayons drop-off schedule:

Saturday, October 24/ Sunday, October 25 9am – 3pm

Saturday, October 31/ Sunday, November 1 9am – 3pm

Saturday, November 7/ Sunday, November 8 9am – 3pm

Special “PREVIEW” Sale: Friday, October 23 3pm – 6pm

GVCO Caring Hands Pumpkin Giveaway

To help raise awareness for the GVCO Caring Hands Foundation and our 2nd Annual
Cradles to Crayons Donation Drive, Caring Hands volunteers gave away pumpkins to the GVCO K-1 Flag and Flag Cheer kids on a chilly Saturday morning!

Look for GVCO Caring Hands volunteers when you drop off your Cradles to Crayons donations or if you need help loading all of your goodies from the Tent Sale!

Cradles to Crayons Philadelphia
Cradles to Crayons COVID-19 Donation Guidelines

JOIN GVCO Caring Hands & Get Involved in our community!

The GVCO Caring Hands Foundation is perpetually looking for students who are interested in volunteering to help the community. Student volunteers are from the 7th through the 12th grades.

Whether you would like to donate an hour of your time or volunteer throughout the school year, please let us know. Additionally, if you are interested in committing to a more significant role with our Caring Hands organization, there are Leadership positions for high school aged students, please send an email to [email protected]

Please fill out this form if you have interest in volunteering as part of our Caring Hands Foundation.

Examples of Community Volunteer Opportunities:
Cradles to Crayons
Families in Need
Senior Holiday Gifts
Grocery Gift Card & Food Pantry Drives

JOIN GV Caring Hands in making a difference in our community!

GVCO Caring Hands Teams Up with GVSD for Grocery Gift Cards for Local Families in need

Thank you to all who donated!!
GVCO Caring Hands Food Fund has raised $4,700 in funds to buy grocery gift cards for families in the Great Valley School District who need help feeding their families.

Caring Hands has been working with Krista Russell at the Great Valley School District for several years. As a result, we were glad we could help when she reached out during this pandemic.

Krista Russell, Social Worker, Great Valley School District:

"For several years Caring Hands of GVCO has contributed generously to Great Valley students and families in need in a variety of ways. They donated thousands of dollars in gift cards for groceries and children’s holiday gifts and even helped families pay bills during especially difficult times. They have come through when it seemed all hope was lost. Caring Hands seems to always be there for the Great Valley community."

GV Caring Hands is making a difference in our community. Thank you for your support!

Headbands for Healthcare Personnel!

The GVCO Caring Hands Program has been looking for ways to support the wonderful health care workers on the front lines of this pandemic. Recently we became aware that some of these brave people have experienced discomfort around their ears from wearing masks for long periods of time.

Caring Hands has partnered with Strawberry Blonde Bands, a home business in Phoenixville, to provide colorful headbands, complete with two buttons, allowing medical staff to attach the mask straps away from their ears. The demand for these special headbands has been tremendous from hospitals and medical facilities; to date Caring Hands has delivered over 200 headbands under this effort, with another 100 in production.

Thank You to our health care personnel for their outstanding, caring service to the community!

If you would like to donate to this initiative, go to GVCO Caring Hands Response Fund to help more
of our first responders receive headbands to relieve stress on their ears and head.

For more information, contact [email protected]

Caring Hands Spreads Cheer Through the Holidays

Thanks to a hardworking crew of GVCO Caring Hands volunteers and a very generous Great Valley community, we have been able to make many positive contributions towards making our community better!

Just during the last few weeks, GVCO Caring Hands launched its first ever clothing drive and donated a truck load of children's items for Cradles to Crayons; hand wrote Thanksgiving cards for Surrey Services' homebound seniors; wrapped and donated over 300 gifts for holiday parties for seniors through Great Valley and Phoenixville Area Senior Centers; raised funds by auctioning the Giant Nutcracker and donated $1,000 of gift cards to GVSD social worker for distribution throughout the school district and $1,000 specifically for our four families through the "Families in Need" initiative.

We are blessed with a great community!

Caring Hands Giant Nutcracker Auction Raised $480!

GVCO Caring Hands Foundation received this wonderful, 7 ft lighted, ceramic Nutcracker donation to help raise funds for the GVCO Caring Hands "Families in Need" initiative.

The winning bid was $480!

Thank you to R.H. Benedix Contracting & Fabrication, our neighbor on Bacton Hill Road, for your very generous bid! From Jennifer Kerbeck and Bobby Benedix, "Our family is forever grateful for your wonderful program and applaud you and your entire team of incredible volunteers!!!!! Since we are not suited for coaching, we are always enthusiastic to support any of the outreach programs that service our community. Additionally, we are thankful for the many teammates and families we have been honored to know through GVBL."

For more information about this initiative: GVCO Caring Hands "Families in Need" 2019

	Christmas came early! We delivered a car load of presents, specially wrapped by the Caring Hands elves, to the Phoenixville Area Senior Center for their Holiday Lunch Party. Everyone was very excited and thankful to receive the presents for their annual party and visit with Santa today! PASC Holiday Party Photo Gallery

	Thanksgiving Cards! A few of the girls got together over the weekend to write Thanksgiving cards that will be distributed to "homebound" seniors. Everyone will be receiving meals from our partner, Surrey Services to make for a festive holiday!

	Cradles to Crayons Drop Off Saturday Look at all those donations! Thank you to everyone who donated, Your donations will support Cradles to Crayons' efforts to provide children living in homeless or low-income situations with the essentials they need to thrive! We will have another drop off day, this Saturday, November 16th. Hope to see you there!

	GVCO Caring Hands Bake Sale Caring Hands held a bake sale this past Saturday at our GVBL Picture Day. We asked families for a donation instead of listing prices. We appreciate everyone who purchased goodies from our sale.

	GVCO Caring Hands Cradles to Crayons Donation Drive On Saturday, November 2nd, Caring Hands held a tent outside of our GVBL Center to help spread Awareness of the impact which Cradles to Crayons brings to the community! Our Caring Hands group handed out some small gift souvenirs to everyone who stopped by the tent! Cradles to Crayons Donation Guidelines


	Welcome aboard new leadership group! GVCO would like to welcome our 2019 leadership group for this years Caring Hands Foundation! Joining us will be: Marley Alleva - President Mac Sullivan - Vice President Emma DeRobertis Caroline Getz Anna Sky Julia Dill Glad to have a full new group join the team!