Throughout the month of January, The Saturday Club ran a community-wide Used Technology Drive in support of the Philadelphia Children’s Foundation. PCF’s mission is to help arm every child with an equal opportunity to learn in the digital age. Dozens of used laptops, web cameras, tablets, printers and accompanying accessories were collected and delivered to PCF — where their technology refurbishment volunteers could immediately prepare the tech to be put into the hands of local students and faculty throughout Philadelphia and its Western Suburbs. Read Full Post

The Saturday Club hosted a virtual food donation drive in support of Philabundance this Thanksgiving season. We were able to raise over $2,400 — allowing Philabundance to provide over 4,800 nutritious meals for local persons facing food insecurity. Thank you to all our members, their families & friends and our community who helped spread the news about this important drive and donated to such an important cause! Read Full Post

The Saturday Club’s October blood drive in conjunction with the American Red Cross has been an important annual community event for many years at The Saturday Club — and this year was no exception. Before our doors even opened, we had over 80 booked appointments! We were ultimately able to collect nearly 65 pints of blood for the American Red Cross during such a critical time for donations. Read Full Post

The Saturday Club, with help from our membership, their children and our community, collected over 650 children’s books for Reach Out and Read Greater Philadelphia at our drop-off book drive on October 7th! Reach Out and Read is a national non-profit organization that gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. Read Full Post

The Saturday Club held its first Community Outreach project of the new club season — virtually! — this past weekend. The event kicked off with an inspiring presentation by event chair Stephanie Harris, who introduced us to Off Their Plate, a grassroots nonprofit with a dual mission to provide an economic lifeline to COVID-impacted restaurants and also feed frontline workers and communities in crisis.  Read Full Post

The Saturday Club and beloved local book store, Main Point Books, are kicking off a book drive in support of the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children (WePAC). WePAC’s mission is to promote childhood literacy by engaging volunteers in Philadelphia public schools through re-opening and staffing libraries and academic mentoring. The book drive will supply much needed books to aid in these efforts. Read Full Post

By: Lucy Brunelli, TSC Kids member The Saturday Club Kids put together Jared Boxes for kids who visit the hospital. It was fun to shop with our families for all of the supplies, then get together with the TSC Kids group to assemble and decorate the boxes. The Jared Box Project sends boxes of toys, games, puzzles, stuffed animals, clay, bubbles etc. Read Full Post