Registration is open for the 11th Stride for SPAN Turkey Trot 5K Race and 1 Mile Fun Walk.

Early Bird pricing until October 9th. Click here to register:

https://register.chronotrack.com/r/75552

Saturday November 4th at Kinder Farm Park

Timed 5K starts at 9am

1 Mile Fun Walk at 9:30am

Mark your calendars for SPAN's 11th Stride for SPAN Turkey Trot. The event will be the morning of Saturday November 4th at Kinder Farm Park. Plan to join us for a great fall morning and a 5K Race or a 1 mile Fun Walk. Registration information coming soon.

Currently looking for local businesses to join us as sponsors in SPAN's main fundraising event - see information below. Contact us for more information: [email protected] or 410-647-0889.

Current sponsor list includes:

Cabaret Performance & Silent Auction

to Benefit SPAN!

Cabaret created and performed

by Laurette Hankins-O’Connell

Pianist/Duet Singer: Anita O’Connor

Musicals, Movies and Moxie—Oh My! is an exuberant and occasionally irreverent salute to a wide array of Broadway and movie musicals. This upbeat “backstage tour” includes a smorgasbord of showtunes hand- picked from more than six decades of Broadway’s best!          

Saturday, June 17, 2023

7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)

One hour show plus intermission

Boone Station Hall, Severna Park Community Center

623 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd., Severna Park

Tickets: $25    

100% of the net proceeds go to support SPAN.

Tickets must be purchased in advance via credit card, PayPal or check sent to SPAN.

Click Here for Payment Link

Please indicate that payment is for the show, in memo line or by email.

           If you can’t make it, please consider sponsoring Laurette & Anita’s efforts

with a donation to SPAN!

Concessions and wine will be available for cash-only purchase.

Silent auction by check, credit card or PayPal.

A huge thank you to all the Turkey Trot Sponsors, Donors and Volunteers for making our 10th Stride for SPAN Turkey Trot a success! It is great to be back at it again! It was a wonderful fall morning! Looking forward to seeing you all again next year!

We grossed over $16,000 which will be deposited in SPAN's general funds to help people facing evictions, utility turn offs and with medical bills.

Thank you for helping us help others!

Pictures below.

Thank You to Our Sponsors

Platinum ($1,500):

Severna Park Automotive

Team Caropreso with Keller Williams Flagship

Gold ($1,000):

Blue Cedar Consulting

Bug Squashers of Maryland

Long & Foster Severna Park

SPAN Volunteers

Silver ($500):

Alexis Lecouras/Edward Jones

Chesapeake Hearing Center, Inc

Creative Force Dance Center

Lean on Dee

Severna Park Family & Cosmetic Dentistry

Severna Park Taphouse

Shore United Bank

The Bank of Glen Burnie

Bronze ($250):

Bay Hills Eye Care

Cafe Mezzanotte

Fit4MOM Chesapeake

Environmental Automotive Services

Gardiner & Appel Group

Jing Ying Institute

McDonalds

Severna Park Auto Body

Thank You to Our Prize Donors:

Clement Hardware

Firehouse Subs (Severna Park and Waugh Chapel)

Franklin Toys

Froyo House

Ledo Pizza and Pasta (Severna Park)

Lures Bar and Grille

Park Home

Pour Dog House

Side Street Framers & Gift Gallery

Subway (Crownsville)

Thank You to Our Food and Other In Kind Donors:

Be My Guest Catering

Big Bean Coffee

Dunkin Donuts (Severna Park)

Giant (Severna Park)

Party Up My Yard

Wegmans

As you well know, many families are facing financial challenges due to the current inflation. These challenges can make it difficult to provide a holiday dinner or Christmas gifts for their children.

The SPAN Holiday Caring Program helps local families by providing holiday food baskets and Christmas gifts for children.  To do so, we depend on the generosity of people like you!  Would you consider becoming a sponsor?  

As a sponsor, you will be matched with a family and asked to purchase food and/or gifts for the family. Short on time?  You can simply provide gift cards in lieu of food or gifts or consider donating to SPAN to fund our year-round programs for low-income families.

To become a sponsor, please complete our online form before November 3rd. The link to the sponsor form is:

Holiday Sponsor Form Link

For more information, please email [email protected] or call 410-647-0889.

Thank you for considering this unique opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water!

RACE DAY - Saturday, November 5th

Where: Kinder Farm Park

When: Can start to arrive at 7:30am

Start Times:   5k Race Time: 9:00am

                       1 Mile Fun Walk: 9:30am

Parking is available at Kinder Farm Park (fee to enter park will not be collected for registered participants).

Packet Pick-Up Information: Friday, November 4th, 5-7PM, 400 Benfield Rd., Severna Park (located behind Our Shepherd Lutheran Church) You may also pickup your packet the morning of the race, but remember to arrive early to allow time.

Register for the race here:  SPAN Turkey Trot active registration

Sponsorships are still available for another couple of weeks - For more information, email: [email protected].

A huge thank you to our sponsors!

Platinum Level:

Team Caropreso

Severna Park Automotive

Gold Level:

Blue Cedar Consulting

Bug Squashers of Maryland

Long & Foster Severna Park Office

Silver Level:

Alexis Lecouras / Edward Jones

Bank of Glen Burnie

Chesapeake Hearing Centers

Creative Dance Force

Lean on Dee

Severna Park Family & Cosmetic Dentistry

Severna Park Tap House

Shore United Bank

Bronze Level:

Bay Hills Eye Care

Cafe Mezzanotte

Environmental Automotive Services

Fit4Mom Chesapeake

Gardiner & Appel

Jing Ying Institute of Kung Fu and Tai Chi

McDonalds

Severna Park Auto Body

Broadway Bonanza

 A Cabaret Performance to Benefit SPAN

Created and performed by Severna Park Native, Laurette Hankins-O’Connell Pianist/Duet Singer: Anita O’Connor

An exuberant and occasionally irreverent salute to a wide array of Broadway musicals of the 20th century. This upbeat “backstage tour” includes a smorgasbord of showtunes hand- picked from more than six decades of Broadway’s best.

REVIEW from Capital Gazette, June 2019: “Blessed with an extraordinary voice, great comedic timing and a generous spirit…Gifted with wit and self-deprecating humor, Hankins-O’Connell charmed the audience” -- Sharon Lee Tegler

Saturday, September 10, 2022, 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30)

Severna Park Community Center

Boone Station Hall, 623 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd., Severna Park

A one hour show with an intermission

Tickets:  $25

100% of the net proceeds goes to support SPAN

Concessions and wine will be available for cash-only purchase.
Silent auction items will be available by check or PayPal.

Space is limited. Tickets must be purchased in advance using check or PayPal. You may mail a check to SPAN, 400 Benfield Rd., Severna Park, MD 21146 or you may pay via PayPal at [email protected] . In the message section, state that your payment is for the show, and indicate how many seats you want. Questions: email [email protected].

It was great to see everyone at the 4th of July Parade! We love our community!

Thank you to Chartwell Young Leaders who joined with us for the event and a huge thank you to all along the parade route who donated! This is a slow time of year for our pantry donations. Thank you for helping! It was wonderful to see everyone along the parade route!

SPAN has one primary fundraiser for the year - our 5K Turkey Trot. After a two year hiatus it is returning! Our 10th Annual Stride for SPAN will be held at Kinder Farm Park on Saturday November 5, 2022!

Currently we are looking for sponsors. As a SPAN sponsor, you or your company or organization will make a difference in the lives of local individuals and families in need. Your sponsorship dollars go directly to funding SPAN. We keep expenses at a minimum to maximize helping those in our local communities. There are four levels of sponsorship for this great community event!

We are also looking for volunteers to join us in planning the event. All sorts of opportunities available - let me know if you would like to join the fun planning team!

Go to active.com and look for SPAN to register for this race at Kinder Farm Park in Millersville, MD.

Click here to register for the race on www.active.com

SPAN's huge Holiday Caring Program is for Thanksgiving and Christmas and thanks to our generous community we were able to provide food and gifts for many families again this year! Thank you!

We would like to provide some of our clients with food for an Easter Dinner celebration and have put together a SignUp Genius link for that opportunity. The link is below. The food list is chosen to provide as many of the items as possible needed to complete some traditional Easter dinner foods - and a grocery gift card to cover the other parts.

Click Here to Sign Up to Provide Easter Dinner Food

You may drop off the box of food at SPAN, Monday - Thursday from 9am-2pm. Drive around to our back and we will meet you at the porch door. Call to let us know you are there 410-647-0889. Please deliver the food by Thursday March 24th. Thank you!

A huge thank you to Severna Park United Methodist Church! This is their 4th year of doing a "Reverse Advent" program in December. Church members fill our blue SPAN bags with food items each day during advent. More than 200 bags were returned this year filled with food! Our office was filled several times around Christmas with the delivery of the bags! Thank you especially to Francie and Carl Seaman, Donna Barnabe and Bob Wimbrow for organizing and delivering the bags.

Thanks to our very generous community, SPAN was able to help over 150 families with Thanksgiving meals and over 170 families (300 children) with Christmas food and gifts for the children! The support from the community was tremendous! So many individuals, businesses and community groups came together to help others!

In addition to the food and gifts for Christmas, two of our amazing volunteers made ornaments to give to many of the families, The Blended Essentials put together gift bags for all of the mothers and we had several Christmas trees to give thanks to the SUN Networking Group!

Thank you so much to everyone who made our Holiday Caring possible, many more than I can name - both those who contributed items and those who gave time to make it possible! So many contributed to making this event a success! You were a blessing to so many and I wish I could pass along all of the appreciation from those receiving!

Merry Christmas!

It was great to see everyone at the Shop Local Shoptoberfest event on Saturday October 23rd! Thank you to Greater Severna Park and Arnold Chamber of Commerce and others who organized it!

Lots of children enjoyed playing our fishing game. And it was a great opportunity to talk with community members about SPAN.

SPAN raised more than $200 that day including a generous donation from Kwon's Tae Kwon Do! Thank you to our great community members who gave! Thank you also to students from the Severna Park High School Thespian Society for helping at the booth and to Rolly Pollies, WEBBY Dance Company Annapolis, Eco Adventures and Music Together Chesapeake for our wonderful raffle prizes!

There were lots of creative costumes in both the kid and dog costume contests.

It was beautiful weather and a fun day - we enjoyed being in the community and sharing about SPAN!

Thank you Severn School for your amazing Spirit Week donation of food for SPAN! Every year Severn School collects food for SPAN during their Spirit Week. The generous donations help fill our shelves and provide help to those in need locally.

The van was packed full of food and toiletries and came to unload three times during the week! The last time there was so much food that they brought a 2nd truck also!

Severn School thank you so much for all that you do for SPAN and our clients!

September 28, 2021, we celebrated the new roof over our back porch with a ribbon cutting! Thank you so much Landmark Roofing for the roof! It is so helpful especially as we head into winter. It rained a little that day to help us all appreciate even more the usefulness of the roof!

For the last year plus we have used our back porch as a drive up method of delivering the food to clients. The porch railing was modified to allow us to pass through boxes of food that can be packed ahead of time.

Below are before and after photos showing the umbrella we had and now a roof!

Thank you to the Chamber of Commerce, Delegate Heather Bagnall, Landmark Roofing and also to our many wonderful volunteers!

Now that students have headed back to school and pumpkins are everywhere, many are starting to count down the days until Thanksgiving and Christmas. But many families worry about Thanksgiving and Christmas because they can't afford a large meal and gifts for their children. Unforeseen circumstances, such as a car accident, illness or job loss can throw family budgets into crisis mode. At SPAN, we help ease the burden a bit.

Please consider becoming a sponsor - you will be matched with a SPAN client family to purchase the food and or gifts for the family and deliver to SPAN for distribution. Sponsors have the option of sending SPAN a tax deductible donation or gift cards.

For more information please email us at [email protected] or 410-647-0889. You can also print the form below, complete it and return it to us.

Thank you for your generosity!

SPAN has been using our back porch as a drive up way to distribute food. It has been great and just made even better when Landmark Roofing gifted SPAN with a new roof over the porch. Very much appreciated especially on rainy days and the upcoming winter! Thank you Landmark Roofing!

We are going to celebrate the new top to the porch with Greater Severna Park and Arnold Chamber of Commerce and a ribbon cutting here on Tuesday September 28th at noon. Please join us, and if you can, bring a monetary or canned food donation to stock our shelves and help clients facing evictions. Thank you in advance!

Below are the before and after pictures. You can how the porch is used to give our clients boxes of food and the great protection from the elements that the roof will provide.

What a nice Monday morning surprise! I arrived to a huge donation from the Vacation Bible School at Severna Park United Methodist. So nice to see all the children helping to contribute! Thank you so much!

We had a wonderful night at the Eastern District National Night Out. It was so much fun to see the kids' faces as they enjoyed our fishing game. I asked one what she imagined her bait was and she said "Cupcakes! Red velvet cupcakes!" Her rod immediately connected with a fish! Another child smiled as she said she would use gummy worms to catch her fish! Lots of smiles as they hooked and pulled up fish.

The SPAN bathtub costume received lots of attention. We were highlighting that SPAN helps with emergency financial assistance for utility shut offs, evictions and medical expenses in addition to food. 

The Youth Group from the Severna Park United Methodist Church was not able to go on their annual service project trip to Appalachia this year. Instead one of the projects they are doing is a food collection for SPAN. Look at all the food they collected! They also used our wish list and the boxes contained many of our most needed items. A huge thank you to the Severna Park United Methodist Youth Group!

We had a wonderful time marching in the Greater Severna Park and Arnold Chamber of Commerce's Independence Day Parade! It was great to be in the parade and see many of our amazing volunteers and community members who support SPAN!

A big thank you to Kathy Taylor, Nancy Stow, Chris Haines and Diane Byus for helping to prepare our materials and to Carolyn Smith for braving the heat and walking with us.

Once again SPAN partnered with Chartwell Young Leaders. We had a fun float with the youth hitting golf balls and playing tennis. We won 2nd place in the Non-Profit category! A huge thank you to Marci Flynn, her team and all of the youth! With their help and the generous community we collected food and financial donations during the parade.

Thanks to a very generous local donor, SPAN received $1,000 worth of Diehl's Produce gift cards. A local community member purchased 20 $50 gift cards and donated them all to SPAN so our clients can enjoy fresh produce from our favorite local source!