Manheim Township
Rise Against Hunger 2025
200+ volunteers
10,000+ meals packed for children internationally
1,500 lbs of food collected for individuals locally in partner with Water Street Mission
Thank you to our sponsors, parents, athletes and students, and Manheim Township School District for role modeling Being the Reason Kindness Grows!
Other 2025 Events:
October 2025: Flowers distributed to residents at Long Community by children
November 2025: Kindness Wheel at Big Blue Battle and youth collected donations to buy Christmas gifts to donate to children in the community. Thank you to the MT Youth Cheerleaders for making pins. Kindness Grows partnered with Highland Presbyterian Church to purchase and wrap gifts for children.
December 2025: The Kindness Grows Club and Highland Presbyterian Youth Group made cards and ornaments as part of care packages donated to residents at Hamilton Arms.
Thank you to Founders Market for sponsoring our Elf-themed Kindness Grows Christmas tree at Penn Medicine Park. Thank you to those who voted and donated to Kindness Grows.
2026 Community Outreach and Service
February 2026: The Kindness Grows Club held their first Be the Reason Kindness Grows Campaign. The week of Valentine's Day, about 180 random kindness messages were spread around the school.
March 2026: The Kindness Grows Club spread kindness with surprising students and teachers with 117 kindness flower-grams with kind messages and flowers in their car door handle.
Thank you to Oregon Dairy and Neffsville Flower Shoppe for the flower donations.
April 2026: The Kindness Grows Club will partner with an Neff Elementary to teach kindness to kindergartenstudents.
May 2026-October 2026: Roots & Wings, our intergenerational befriending program will kick off! An aged adult will be paired with youth from the community. The goal is to demonstrate the benefit of intergenerational relationships and decrease loneliness. There will be monthly events and weekly touch points. Please let us know if you or your teen is interested in helping! Thank you to Penn State's CGNE for supporting the program!
This will be kicked off by our 24-hour Rock-a-Thon.
October 2026: Our second Manheim Township Rise Against Hunger will take place!!!!
Intergenerational Befriending Program
Building bonds between generations for community restoration.
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