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March 15, 2026, 7:27 pm |
10896 |
Community |
Penguin Plunge |
70 |
02/08/2026 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
5 |
40.00 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
1000.00 |
<p>Penguin Plunge at Hampton Beach for NH Special Olympics</p>
<p>Individuals sought donations for Plunge into Atlantic at Hampton Beach on Super Bowl Sunday 2026</p>
<p>This Fundraiser has been assisted by Council Members for 7+ years.</p> |
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March 15, 2026, 7:15 pm |
10896 |
Community |
Run to Home Base |
70 |
07/19/2025 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
18.00 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
777.00 |
<p>Run to Home Base - Fenway Park - Boston</p>
<p>Suicide Prevention Help for Veterans</p>
<p>Fundraising by individual participants</p>
<p>Council Raffled Celtics Item for total of $677</p>
<p>Council donated $100 and 4th Degree also donated $ </p> |
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69b73da317a0a-Run 2 Home Base Raffle 2025.pdf |
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March 15, 2026, 7:01 pm |
10896 |
Faith |
Breakfast with St Nick |
70 |
12/07/2025 |
20 |
2 |
22 |
10 |
220.00 |
317.00 |
3 |
0 |
677.00 |
<p>Breakfast, St Nick, Balloon Shapes, Crafts after Sunday 10AM Mass</p> |
69b73a48b0820-2025 St Nick Breakfast Report.pdf |
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March 15, 2026, 1:26 am |
13904 |
Family |
Oktoberfest 2025 |
158 |
09/28/2025 |
40 |
6 |
46 |
5 |
230.00 |
3470 |
200 |
1 |
7331 |
<p>Oktoberfest 2025 was a Family event and fundraiser held on September 28, 2025. Proceeds enable our financial support of Corpus Christi Food Pantry (part of our Food for Families program) and the Nashua Soup Kitchen in shelter (part of our Helping Hands program). The event is run by families within our council and was well-attended by Immaculate Conception Church families.</p>
<p>Planning begins in July, including advertising and soliciting sponsorships from area business to defray much of the cost. Planning is also done in coordination with ICC's the Faith formation director and youth religious education director to complement their calendars and bring a fun social activity for young and old together. </p>
<p>The Oktoberfest event itself is a fun afternoon of German food and drinks, music, yard games, a stein holding contest, 50-50 raffle, and kids activities that include face painting, a kids "stein cup" holding contest, and kids yard games. We get to socialize as parish families and K of C families, and in the process raise funds for several community service agencies in Nashua. </p> |
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March 15, 2026, 12:58 am |
13904 |
Life |
2026 Laundry Basket Drive |
158 |
01/24/2026 |
10 |
1 |
11 |
4 |
44.00 |
0 |
20 |
1 |
4981 |
<p>The 2026 Laundry Basket Drive was the centerpiece of the host of Respect Life activities held in January this year. The Drive collects gift cards, baby items, and monetary donations for local pregnancy centers and shelters for pregnant women. </p>
<p>This years Laundry Basket Drive started with planning and advertising in December 2025, enabling a launch for online donations on January 3rd, followed by two weekends of in-person collections after Masses at Immaculate Conception Church in mid-January, and continued online donations into early February. Parishioners and donors were amazingly generous this year, donating $4981 of cash and gift cards, plus purchased and handmade baby items. The ICC parishioners and Knights who donate both their time and treasure are grateful for the opportunity to help women experiencing a crisis pregnancy, help new and struggling families trying to take care of their newborn, and provide every child the opportunity of Life. The Novena For Life overlaps with the Laundry Basket Drive and is promoted in parallel as part of our January Respect Life activities.</p>
<p>Donations collected in 2027 were distributed to St. Gianna's Place in Hudson, Margarite's Place in Nashua, Pennacook Pregnancy Center in Manchester, New Generation in Greenland, and Real Options in Nashua and Manchester.</p> |
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March 15, 2026, 12:23 am |
13904 |
Community |
Back-to-School Backpack Drive |
158 |
07/30/2025 |
21 |
3 |
24 |
3 |
72.00 |
0 |
16 |
2 |
2500 |
<p>The Back-to-School Backpack Drive in an annual Council 13904 Community / Family activity that collects backpacks, school supplies, and monetary donations for distribution to disadvantaged kids in the Nashua NH area. The drive is held in mid-July and the school supplies are distributed in early August through the Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter (NSKS).</p>
<p>Planning for the drive starts in early June, during which time we coordinate with NSKS for current K - 12 school supply needs, coordinate with Immaculate Conception Church for print, e-mail and web advertising, and set up a website for online donations. We collected backpacks and school supplies from 7/18 - 8/3 this year, together with monetary donations and gift cards. The 2025 Drive collected 110 backpacks, loads of school supplies for all grades, and over $2,500 in monetary donations, which we then delivered to NSKS for sorting, purchase of additional school supplies, and distribution, Several Knights also volunteered for sorting and distribution on donated supplies and backpacks at NSKS (attached photo). </p>
<p>This annual Drive is very important to our council because it it a way to help the underprivileged youth in our community and help families support the education of their kids. We have a lot of fathers and grandfathers who care deeply about kids, and in executing this drive we strengthen our fraternal bonds while doing the Lord's work. Several of us miss the old "Youth" program focus, and this activity helps us maintain it. It also is appreciated by the ICC parish community, as demonstrated by their generous donations this year and prior years. </p> |
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March 14, 2026, 2:06 pm |
6617 |
Family |
Christmas Food Baskets |
110 |
12/19/2025 |
6 |
2 |
8 |
4 |
32.00 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
655 |
<p>On the Friday before Christmas, several Brother Knights, along with a couple of additional members of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish, gathered at the local Market Basket to assemble 20 Christmas dinners for the St. Luke the Evangelist Food Pantry. Each volunteer was given one item from the shopping list and sent out into the store to grab 20 of that item from the shelves. Arrangements were made with the store in advance to have turkeys, hams, and pies set aside to ensure that there would be enough of each of these items. Once everyone reconvened at the front of the store we paid for the items and split them across 20 boxes to make the individual dinners. When this was done, those volunteers who had enough room in their vehicle drove the boxes to the food pantry, where they were dropped off to be distributed by the volunteers there over the following weekend. Along with the food items, arrangements were also made with the store to have boxes set aside for us to use that morning, and they opened a separate register to handle our order to minimize the impact on the other customers.</p>
<p>This program aims to provide the food pantry with a much needed boost in supplies at a time of year when there is especially high demand for their services, and to help them provide a Christmas dinner to more families in need in the area. The council also completes these shopping trips before Easter and Thanksgiving for the same reason, and purchases either complete dinners or a larger quantity of a smaller number of items, depending on the needs of the pantry at that time. The council typically funds this program through other charitable activities during the year, usually by running a dinner at the Parish Center. </p> |
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March 13, 2026, 8:30 am |
807 |
Community |
Lenten Meals |
14 |
02/20/2026 |
14 |
40 |
54 |
12 |
648.00 |
800 |
10 |
0 |
1600 |
<p>Beginning on 2/20/26 and running for 6 consecutive Fridays during Lent through 3/27/26, Council 807 has hosted a Simple Lenten Meal at St Mary's Parish Hall in Dover from 4:30pm to 6:30pm for many years now. Members prepare and serve a meal of Clam Chowder or Tomato Soup, a grilled cheese sandwich, a garden salad and drink for $5.00 per person. This meal is followed by Mass and Stations of the Cross at St Mary Church in Dover. </p>
<p>This simple meal allows for faith, fellowship, and community for Parishioners during the Lenten season, and is an important catalyst in encouraging all to attend Mass and Stations during this blessed season. Although we view it as a mission rather than a fundraiser, with donations we are able to turn a profit with this mission, which can then be used to further the good works of the Council. 8 to 10 Knights are involved each week of the 6 week program, which also promotes Council camaraderie and spirit among us, and is a visible statement to the Dover Parish community of the Knights practicing their faith and serving others.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>Mark Speidel, Chair</p> |
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March 12, 2026, 8:05 pm |
2078 |
Community |
Spring Basket Raffle |
80 |
04/16/2026 |
6 |
0 |
6 |
30 |
180.00 |
200 |
12 |
0 |
2500 |
<p>This late winter we started reaching out to local establishments, restaurants, stores, golf courses and others to see if they would help our raffle by donating items to be included in the basket we would be raffling off. We collected just over $4,000 of donated items and have split them into 4 baskets each worth over $1,000. We have started selling raffle tickets at $10 a ticket or 3 for $25, we will be selling them up until our April meeting, where we will draw the four winners. All money raised from the tickets sales will be donated to Special Olympics of NH, our hope is to raise $2,500.</p> |
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March 12, 2026, 7:56 pm |
2078 |
Community |
Lenten Soups |
80 |
03/27/2026 |
10 |
3 |
13 |
12 |
156.00 |
400 |
30 |
1 |
2500 |
<p>During the season of Lent we provide soups for purchase for Friday's. We solicit orders leading up to Ash Wednesday, for this year we took orders for 400 quarts of soup. We spend time on Thursday's filling all the quart and pint containers that are going to picked up on Fridays. We offer two choices for each week during Lent, a Seafood Option and a non-Seafood Option, some examples from this included, Clam Chowder, Haddock Chowder, Seafood Chowder, Apple and Butternut Squash, Carrot Ginger and many more. This year we have decided that all proceeds from the sales of the soups will be donated to our local Food Pantry, we are expecting to donate $2,500 to them.</p> |
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