by Our Future First | Sep 8, 2021 | Blog, Events, News
This past Labor Day was our 3rd Annual Back to School Shoe Drive. While it was a little different than years past, it was still a smashing success! This year, we decided to only provide brand new shoes for our youth, which means that we had to stretch our dollars as...
by Our Future First | May 16, 2021 | Blog, News
We officially started our fundraising efforts to build Reese’s House, featuring a collaboration with Wildflower Vegan Cafe, last December. We had a deadline to raise the down payment for the building, about $30,000, by March. Within the span of 3 months, we had...
by Our Future First | May 4, 2021 | Blog, News
We started Our Future First with the basic idea that there are not enough opportunities for teenagers and young adults to grow outside of the confines of modern-day society. As we have grown and created programs, we have built everything around this philosophy. From...
by Our Future First | Dec 29, 2020 | Blog, News
When we announced our Second Annual Holiday Toy Drive in the middle of a global pandemic, we anticipated receiving many requests for help from families in our community. Within a month of launching our sign-up form, we had over 400 responses for individual children...
by Our Future First | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog, News
We started Our Future First, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit, after losing our friend Maurice Lewis in May of 2018 to an act of random gun violence in our hometown of Millville, NJ. At 19 years old, Reese was the kind of person who did everything he could to help...
by Our Future First | Sep 12, 2020 | Blog, News
On Labor Day, we hosted our Second Annual Back to School Shoe Drive in the parking lot of the First United Methodist Church in our hometown of Millville. Our goal was to build on our first shoe drive from last year and we definitely surpassed our own expectations!...