We are beyond grateful to Tom and Katherine Ritterhoff for their incredibly generous donations of winter wear! Their support has helped provide: Winter coats (from kids’ small through adult 2XL) Sweatshirts & warm pants Winter hats & gloves Their dedication to ensuring that no student...
We’re honored to share that our founder, Dr. Laurie Taylor-Mitchell, was featured on WYPR’s Midday with Tom Hall discussing food insecurity and poverty impacting students in Baltimore County. In the segment, Dr. Taylor-Mitchell shares how the Student Support Network has spent the last 10 years...
Great news! Our friends at Cockeysville Grocery Outlet are hosting a food/hygiene item drive box for us during the month of December! If you are in the Cockeysville area and want to help us restock our shelves, we have a donation point set up at Cockeysville Grocery Outlet at the front registers...
Yesterday, our Program Manager and Executive Director visited three of our incredible school sites (Mars Estates, Battle Monument and Dundalk HS)—and even though the cold air rolled in and flurries were flying, our hearts couldn’t have been warmer. Seeing our school liaisons and volunteers...
A huge thank you to Brightview Senior Living for hosting a nonperishable food drive to support the Student Support Network! Their residents and team came together to collect essential items that will go directly to students across Baltimore County. Seniors supporting students — it doesn’t get...
We are so grateful to Boy Scout Troop 340, who spent their day giving back in the most powerful way! Instead of their usual plans, the boys organized a community food collection—setting up tables outside Safeway and inviting neighbors to support local students. And wow… our community showed up!...
We Are Celebrating Our Amazing Towson University Fall Interns! As the fall semester comes to a close, we want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to our incredible Towson University interns. In just a short amount of time, they experienced so much—and made an incredible impact! From...
Light Up the Night & Light Up a Child’s Future! This year, we’re inviting our Baltimore County neighborhoods to make their luminary nights even more meaningful. Instead of filling your luminary bags with sand, use nonperishable food items to weigh them down — and help feed students right...
We are honored that BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has awarded the Student Support Network a grant for the third year in a row! With continued help, we are able to provide consistency to thousands of students living in poverty in Baltimore County every year. We are here as long as the need is...
Whew! What a week! Our staff and amazing volunteers were hard at work ordering, delivering, and packing 400 weekend food bags to ensure families have nourishing meals for the upcoming break. A huge THANK YOU to H&S Bakery for generously donating 400 loaves of bread to support this effort! ...
A slice of good news for your feed: we received a grant from the Papa John’s Pizza Foundation! Thank you to our local Papa Johns franchisee for nominating us. We can’t wait to put these funds to good use helping Baltimore County students in need. The work we do wouldn’t be possible without...
At last night’s Board of Directors meeting the Board celebrated the Network’s 10th Anniversary. Since 2015 the Network has supported tens of thousands of students in need and raised over $11 million dollars to provide food and basic necessities for our most vulnerable students. Cutting the...