The Giving Porch

05/31/2026

Time for the annual Summer Reading Program. 📕📗📘📙📚

YCL's 2026 "Unearth A Story" Summer Learning Challenge begins tomorrow, Monday, June 1! Participants can register at any YCL branch, the Bookmobile, or online using our fun, interactive Beanstack service. Don't miss our FREE summer performances each week at your local Library. To learn more, visit yclibrary.org/slc.

Summer Learning Kick-Off Parties - June 1st 🎉

🦖 Clover Library: 11 am – 2 pm (All Ages)
Stop in to participate in activities, draw your best dinosaur, and win prizes that will make you roar until the Dino bones shake! Light snacks will be provided. All ages are welcome to drop in.
https://tinyurl.com/Clover-Kickoff

🦕 Fort Mill Library: 2 - 4 pm (All Ages)
Drop in to the library to start your summer vacation with a cool craft. Don’t forget to sign up for the Summer Learning Challenge! All ages accompanied by an adult. No registration required.
https://tinyurl.com/FM-Kickoff

🍦Lake Wylie Library: 2 - 4 pm (All Ages)
Bucks Ice Cream will be onsite with free goodies, and we will also have bubbles, chalk, a scavenger hunt and games. No registration is necessary but supplies are first come, first served.
https://tinyurl.com/LW-Kickoff

🔎 Main Library: 4:30-6:00 pm (12 & under)
Adopt a dinosaur buddy, craft your own paleontologist hat, unearth some cool rocks, explore the Museum of York County's hands-on exhibit, and sign up for the challenge. Drop-in for children under twelve accompanied by an adult, available while supplies last. https://tinyurl.com/RH-Kickoff

YCL's Summer Learning Challenge is sponsored by the Friends of the York County Library.

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05/31/2026

Employment Opportunity

📢 Now Hiring: Collections & Administrative Specialist 📢

Continuum Health Providers is seeking a dedicated, detail-oriented Collections & Administrative Specialist to join our team in Fort Mill, SC!

🕘 Schedule: Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 Location: In-person at our Fort Mill office

Responsibilities may include:
✅ Managing patient accounts and collections
✅ Processing payments and maintaining accurate records
✅ Providing administrative support to the office team
✅ Assisting with patient communication and scheduling
✅ Maintaining professionalism and confidentiality at all times

We are looking for someone who is organized, dependable, has excellent communication skills, and thrives in a fast-paced healthcare environment.

📧 To apply, please send your resume to: [email protected]

Join a team committed to providing compassionate, quality care to our community. We look forward to hearing from you!

05/30/2026

Fun event.

World Knit (and Crochet) in Public Day
Saturday, June 13, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Main Library (Rock Hill), Activities Room

Join the Rock Hill community to Knit (and Crochet) in Public at the Rock Hill Library. This will be a drop in event from 9:30 - 12:30 in the Activities area. Bring your project and spread the news that yarn arts are for everyone.

There will be a craft swap table. Bring supplies you no longer need and take something "new" home to get your creativity flowing.

Registration is not required, but recommended, so we can plan for set up.

Registration opens May 30. Ages 12+, limit 50.

05/29/2026

School’s out! Let’s get the summer going! 😎

If you’re a rising 7th-9th grade girl, looking to get started in basketball or if you’re working on improving your game…sign up for this 2-day clinic!

Bring your friends and let’s have some fun!!

Scan the QR code or check out the link in bio.
https://forms.gle/cCRdMoTNePDg1o537

See you there!

05/29/2026

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05/28/2026

Local Peeps -- Employment opportunities

We are hiring! We have multiple positions open, including:

- Inpatient Technician
- Peer Support Specialist
- Licensed Mental Health Counselor
- Clinical Counselor

🔗Click the link in our bio to apply!

05/28/2026

Let’s get this done! Any teens available?

People right here in our community are struggling. We need your help to fill the shelves. Use our Amazon link https://a.co/0dzve5el
or drop off your donations at our food pantry Monday - Friday.

05/27/2026

Years ago, in New Jersey, I worked for the RSVP (Retired, Senior Volunteer Program). My job entailed marketing the needs and recruiting volunteers to assist area nonprofits. One day I interviewed a potential volunteer, gathering information on her skills, interests, availability. I suggested that the best "fit" would be the local chapter of The American Cancer Society. With this she "bristled" and emphatically declared, "I CAN'T FIND A CURE FOR CANCER!"

I gently suggested that if she was able to commit just one day a week to this agency, taking on necessary office tasks (answering the phone, greeting visitors, filing, typing forms, collating paperwork, sorting donations, preparing the monthly newsletter), she could provide a staff member with an uninterrupted day to work on an upcoming event, to raise needed research monies, to potentially . . . wait for it . . . find a cure for cancer.

Years later I would remember such interactions that eventually lead to the creation of my tagline -- Don't let your inability to do everything prevent you from doing something.

So purchase that purple bow (Darlene Blount Cave for Cystic Fibrosis research) or make a donation (Bert Harper as a Blood Cancer United visionary). Together, we are making inroads finding cures in memory of our loved ones. Your donation is never too small or too late to show your support and make a difference.

MKT at The Giving Porch

Don't let your inability to do everything
prevent you from doing something.

05/27/2026

ISO vacationers to bring home unopened hotel-sized toiletries for folks in detox unit

05/27/2026

PSA to all caregivers:

Feeling a bit of panic after checking the calendar? Only a few days until this school year ends? Wondering how to make this a meaningful summer break with mentoring opportunities to increase compassion for others? Perhaps these suggestions will present some ideas. Senior citizens are especially grateful when the kids tag along to deliver meals. Preparing food is a great way to have the kids practice reading a recipe, measuring the ingredients, and packaging the finished product. Teens and young adults who are home from college for the summer are great candidates for delivering meals once a week to homebound seniors or helping to unload a food truck at a local food pantry.

Here are some ideas from The Giving Porch:
*prepare frozen meals to lessen the burden of foster and adoptive care parents (Defend the Fatherless)
*purchase an assortment of greeting cards (Dollar Tree) along with a roll of stamps to allow a homebound senior to stay in touch (nursing and assisted living homes, York County Council on Aging)
*volunteer to play Bingo, board games, work on a jigsaw puzzle at an assisted living/nursing home
*sign up to deliver Meals on Wheels to homebound seniors (York County Council on Aging)
*recruit your child's summer sports team to collect nonperishables for a food pantry or soup kitchen
*clean out your closets for gently loved shoes, clothing, suitcases, bed linens, towels for the underserved
*offer to mow the yard/walk the dog/shop for groceries/run errands for a family experiencing loss
*read to a visually impaired senior
*tutor a student struggling in school
*wash bed linens and towels for a homeless shelter (Bethel Shelters)
*teach a child to play chess
*become a pen pal to a homebound senior
*prepare and serve dinner at a homeless shelter (Life House Women's Shelter, The Haven, Bethel Shelters)
*help sort and tag donations at a thrift store (Oakland Park Ministries Thrift Store)
*clean out your toys and donate those that are gently loved (thrift stores)
*knit, crochet, or quilt lap robes for homebound seniors
If an idea is worth pursuing, please reach out and we will share the additional contact information for the agency.

With gratitude --
The Giving Porch at 749 Revival Row

Don't let your inability to do everything
prevent you from doing something.

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