MLKFS GIVE$ Day-Online Giving Day/Celebration at White Lion Brewing

MLKFS GIVE$ DAY!
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 All Day Online Giving Event!
Every dollar raised through MLKFS GIVE$ Day directly sustains our inter-generational programs that meet children, families, and community members where they are — from STEAM to Social Smotional Learning and food access to mental health support, and economic opportunity.

Over the next few weeks you will be showered with love from our MLKFS family and champions who will share what MLKFS GIVES to them.

A true celebration of our purpose, inspiring YOU to give and share our mission with others. When you GIVE, MLKFS GIVE$

MLKFS GIVE$ Day is our all‑day online giving event, but you don’t have to wait — the portal is open right now. Mailing a check instead? Just note MLKFS GIVE$ Day in the memo line. https://secure.qgiv.com/for/mlkfsgiveday

Topping off our MLKFS GIVE$ Day with our friends at White Lion Brewing!

Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 4:30-6:30pm

Give whatever amount makes you feel good, share with friends and neighbors, and make it a day to celebrate Beloved Community in the 4‑1‑3.

Enjoy a community celebration – special celebratory cocktail, nibbles, DJ, raffle, and a whole lot of gratitude as we gather in joy and purpose.

A portion of beverage proceeds will go to MLKFS GIVE$ Day!

Then head on over to PrideLands on Mane Street and keep the party going with live music.

Give inside. Shine outside! One night and two ways to celebrate the Beloved Community is alive in Springfield!
Become a sponsor. Get your shine while shining on others.

Inspiring MLKFS GIVE$ Day sponsorships available!

Send any inquiries to Claudia Pazmany: cpazmany@mlkjrfs.org

Mental Health Awareness Month Community Celebration

Mental health touches more lives than many of us realize—affecting more than 1 in 5 adults and adolescents each year, often beginning early in life. That’s why connection, understanding, and support matter so much.

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re coming together to celebrate community, wellness, and connection—and you’re invited!

Join us for a FREE, family-friendly event filled with fun, creativity, and movement. Bring your friends, family, and neighbors for a great time together! ☀️

Walk/Run for Adoption

Join us in Worcester for a day of community, connection, and fun—all in support of adoption from foster care. Whether you’re running for a personal best or walking with family and friends, your participation brings hope to waiting children.

Our Worcester Walk/Run event includes festivities, games, crafts, refreshments, and family-friendly fun! Walkers and runners are invited to complete a 5k fun-run, consisting of three loops around the course. All the funds raised from this event go towards helping children and teens in foster care find adoptive homes!

Broadening the Lens

Our training and consultation series prepares individuals, communities, and coalitions that are strengthening their transformative work towards healing and equity-based relationships in divisive times. This is our three-hour training for public health integration of racial and health equity.

Learning-based Objectives
By the end of our time together, we will have:
• Examined a lens for understanding how the tensions within the historical foundings of our country impact us and our public health.
• Examined the application of key racial and health equity concepts and vocabulary to public health in MA.
• Reflected and shared how a solutions focused approach like targeted universalism has impacted public health in our lifetime.

Please note: If you work for Public Health in Massachusetts, your attendance is covered by the Office of Local and Regional Health. You still need to register though, and you can do that by emailing Amparo Cruz acruz@growinganewheart.org.

Wisdom Circle For All

How do you live in your Field of Peace during turbulent times? Wisdom Circle for All
Our training and consultation series prepares individuals, communities, and coalitions that are strengthening their transformative work towards healing and equity-based relationships in divisive times. Come join our Wisdom Circle to cultivate a stronger sense of peace, possibility, healing and connection. You are invited to share space as we seek to meet one another in a field of peace and honesty.

What to expect
• Our circle keepers will share a brief insight through story, poem, or short video.
• Then, you will be given a reflection question.
• We will take turns listening deeply to one another.

Who is this for?
If you feel like this sounds nourishing to your soul, this is for you. Wisdom Circle For All requires registration for each monthly session.

How to participate
• It takes some practice and trust to get used to a circle. Most of the time, you will be listening to others.
• We encourage you to notice how you are moved and changed by sitting with others’ truths.
• When it is your turn, ask yourself: “Of all the many things I could say, what is coming to the front?”
–Remind yourself you do not need to say it all at one time.
–If you keep returning, we will come to know one another better.
–It is good practice to share time.