Initiatives:  Ways in Which Our Community is Helping

Fundraising
All money collected from our generous donors is being put to use for filling needs all over Belmont:
  • Mask-making materials 
  • Food and grocery needs
  • Belmont restaurant gift cards
  • Minor operating costs
Meeting Our Neighbors' Needs
Our army of over 300 volunteers has been quickly responding to our community's needs with:
  • Keeping our residents informed (stats and resources)
  • Deliveries (masks, groceries, prescriptions, mask-making materials, etc.)
  • Technical support calls
  • Phone buddies - outreach to single residents
  • Translation services
  • Electronic device donations
  • Radio donations to Belmont Manor
  • Locating PPE for Belmont Manor, Mt. Auburn Hospital and first responders
  • Making meals
  • Delivering prescriptions
  • Collecting snack for healthcare workers at Belmont Manor and Mt. Auburn Hospital
  • Sponsoring three days of Council on Aging meals
  • Making thank you cards for hospital and Belmont Manor staff for all they do
  • AND....
  • Brightening Belmont through campaigns listed below
Belmont Helps #BrightenBelmont
With the Recreation Department and the Woman's Club, we are collecting art to showcase on repurposed lawn signs as an art garden at the Homer House at Pleasant Street and Concord Avenue.
The Belmont Kindness Rocks Project

Help spread kindness, joy, and words of encouragement around Belmont.  You'll need rocks, a container for water, a piece of aluminum foil for the palette, acrylic paint, paintbrush(es), paper towel.  Rocks are available at the Beech Street Center - contact Dana Leavitt at 617-993-2977.

Instructions:
  1. Plan your design. It could be something you create or copy a picture in a magazine or newspaper or your favorite sayings, words. of encouragement, kindness, or love. 
  2. Optional: Paint white or black over the top of the rock first, making it the background for your design.
  3. Paint your design on your rock. Rinse your brush in water before you pick up a new color unless you have additional brushes.  You can blend your colors on the aluminum foil.
  4. You may need to let each color dry on your rock before adding a new color.
  5. Although it isn't necessary if you would like to seal your rocks once the paint is dry, use acrylic spray or clear nail polish.
  6. Tag and post photos!  
    @BelmontHelps, @BelmontMAYouthCommission, @BelmontRecreation, @BelmontPublicLibrary, 
    #BelmontMA #BeechStreetCenter #TownofBelmont #KindnessRocksProject #Kindnessrocks #Kindness #Encouragement #Joy #Love #Spreadkindness
Send pictures to belmonthelps@gmail.com. 
Belmont Together
Working with the town's Recreation Department and all residents, this virtual gathering on May 16 showcased talents to benefit Belmont Helps Fund that will go right back into the hardest hit parts of our community.
Mask Drive
Belmont Helps has provided mask-making materials on request to our awesome army of volunteers making masks.  We match materials with people who sew and masks to people in need, including Belmont Manor and several businesses.
Belmont Dines
Your funds are hard at work!  There are residents in Belmont who cannot afford a meal.  Working with Belmont's Council on Aging, Food Pantry and Public Schools, we are giving gift cards from Belmont restaurants.
Click here for even more volunteering bragging rights!
Co-founder Amy Kirsch explains Belmont Helps:
Roger Colton's News Now