Our 3rd Annual Back to School Shoe Drive

Our 3rd Annual Back to School Shoe Drive

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...
Reese’s House: An Update

Reese’s House: An Update

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...
Recap: Our 2nd Annual Holiday Toy Drive

Recap: Our 2nd Annual Holiday Toy Drive

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...
Help us build Reese’s House!

Help us build Reese’s House!

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...
Our Second Annual Back to School Drive

Our Second Annual Back to School Drive

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!...