Span, Inc. is looking for donations of gift cards from the following locations:
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%newline%Local Grocery Stores - Star Market, Stop & Shop
%newline%Local Pharmacies - CVS, Walgreens
%newline%Local cinemas
%newline%Local restaurants
%newline%Local retail stores
%newline%Dunkin Donuts
%newline%Starbucks
%newline%Local performing arts centers
%newline%Boston Center for...
Span, Inc. is looking for donations of gift cards from the following locations:
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%newline%Local Grocery Stores - Star Market, Stop & Shop
%newline%Local Pharmacies - CVS, Walgreens
%newline%Local cinemas
%newline%Local restaurants
%newline%Local retail stores
%newline%Dunkin Donuts
%newline%Starbucks
%newline%Local performing arts centers
%newline%Boston Center for Adult Education
%newline%Cambridge Center for Adult Education
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%newline%The donation of gift cards to Span, Inc. can benefit clients in either one of two ways:
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%newline%1) Gift cards are often used as incentives in order to encourage our formerly imprisoned clients to access the life-changing and stabilizing services we provide. Sometimes the mere prospect of earning two tickets to the movies can influence clients to attend a job training or relapse prevention workshop.
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%newline%2) Gift cards can ensure that the most basic of needs are being met for our neediest clients. 98% of Span clients have low or no income through their first six months of release from prison. In this case, a Stop and Shop gift card may be a client's only access to groceries outside of Span's Drop-In Center until a food stamp benefit application is completed. Or perhaps a gift card to Target allows someone with no income to buy new clothes for the first time in ten years in order to make that important first impression at her next job interview.(more)
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