Friends of the South Shore Foster Closet

11/03/2026

Calling all volunteers! Whether you want to earn service hours, give back as a family, or help your teens take a break from their phones and games, this is a wonderful opportunity. Even if your coworkers are interested in volunteering, everyone is welcome to join. Each year, our dedicated volunteers amaze us with their generosity, bringing joy to children in foster care on Christmas morning. Foster parents consistently share glowing feedback about our volunteers' impact. If you have questions about ages, let me know. **** link to sign up in comments.

10/30/2026

FOUND safe and at home with family.

10/30/2026

We are not currently accepting clothing donations as we prepare for our Annual Toy Event. Please do not drop off items at the Braintree or Kingston locations, except for brand-new toys, puzzles, and games. Thank you for your understanding!

10/19/2026

It’s that time of year again for our highly anticipated Annual Toy Event! This year, we’re doing things a bit differently. We have two sign-up sheets available: one for ages 12 and under, and another for ages 13 and up (TEEN ROOM). These sign-up sheets will be accessible for only two weeks and will close on November 3, 2026, at 5:00 PM.

If you do not sign up for the 5-6 PM time slot, there will be a secondary sheet available for the 6-7 PM time. Please remember, this is the only opportunity to obtain items, as we will not be fulfilling any requests after this date.

Make sure to follow all instructions on the sign-up sheets carefully. We will not be able to accommodate missing information. You must print your email confirmation and bring it with you. There will be plenty of volunteers available to help you shop and carry items to your car.

As in previous years, please note that this is a fast-moving event, so be prepared!

** This event is for Foster, Pre-Adoptive, Adopted, and Kinship homes ONLY***

*** Forms are in the Comments.***

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10/16/2026

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IT’S TIIIIIIIME 🥳

Nominations are OPEN for 2027 Bananas Foster Families, better known as our BFFs 🫶

Tell us about a foster family, foster parent, foster care caseworker, social worker, CASA, or anyone you know who is making a difference in the foster care community! We are so excited to learn more about the foster care superheroes throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico and celebrate them for their incredible impact! 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽

2027, we’re coming for you! ⭐🍌🩵 Head to the link below to nominate your favorite difference-maker 📲 https://bananasfoster.org/bff-nominations/
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10/14/2026

The Closet gave away over 1500 new toys between mid November and mid December last year to local foster, adopted, pre-adoptive and kinship children and the families they live with on the South Shore.

In order to have enough toys, we literally have to start collecting them the day after Christmas and collect them all year to insure we have enough for everyone.

That means every day of this year we work to gather toys including today ♥️

Please consider buying a toy from the list below or buying a toy at the store or going through your kids’ toys and finding new toys they don’t need any longer and dropping them at 9 Page Ave Kingston at the side of the house anytime. We also take used game consoles, used hand game consoles, used video games, opened Lego sets that have not been put together, used Barbie dream houses, unopened makeup, unused bath & body works/ Sephora.

Thank you for thinking of us ♥️♥️

09/25/2026

The Closet gets lots of shoes sneakers cleats sandals and boots. We are blessed that we get so many because we need so many. We likely give away about 800 pairs of sneakers shoes etc a year. We sort through them all and keep those that are new are almost new or only have a minor flaw. We then give some to our sister charities of shoes and sneakers that don’t work for us personally, but will for them.

Then the rest get boxed up and about four times a year Soles4Souls comes and picks them up. They distribute the rest of the donated footwear to communities in the US and worldwide that need good usable sneakers but don’t mind surface dirt or a few dings in them.

Those that don’t make it to soles4souls get sent to gotsneakers where the soles are recycled for turf balls (the little black balls under sports turf to give it bounce)

Cleats get sent to a charity so distributes them worldwide to needed teams.

Crocs back to the company where they melted down and made into new crocs

We try to find everything a home ♥️♥️

09/10/2026

The Closet spends all year starting the day after Christmas collecting new toys to give out to foster, adopted, pre-adoptive and kin families at our November Christmas event so that each child in those families has gifts from Santa under the tree on Christmas morning. Last year it took over 1500 toys to accomplish that goal. We hope that you would consider buying a toy or two from our below list to make this magic happen again.

We also take any new toy at our drop off location of 9 Page Ave., Kingston at the side of the house anytime it’s not raining

Thank you for helping us help these kids believe in Santa ♥️♥️

09/05/2026

Please consider the South Shore Foster Closet for your office or school toy/ socks/underwear/sneaker holiday drives. We can help set up or provide any needed information to your company school organization. Thank you for thinking of us. ♥️♥️♥️

09/01/2026

Subject: Important: Beware of Spam Email

Hi everyone,

It has come to our attention that an email invitation has been sent out to some of you. Please be aware that this is spam. We do not have anyone's email address unless you specifically reached out to that email.

Do not click on any links in the email.

Thank you!

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