Giving Back

Focused on Our Community

The Fruit Center Marketplace makes every effort to support our local non-profit organizations and charities. If you would like the Fruit Center to consider donating to your charity or local organization, please download this document, fill it out, and return it to one of our stores at least 30 days before any event or scheduled deadline.

If you would like to see who we helped in 2010, you can download a list of the groups we supported last year.

The Fruit Center Donates $10k to The Milton 350th Committee

On January 26, 2012, our wine dinner fundraiser with Chef Chris Douglass of Ashmont Grill and Tavolo, raised $10,000 for the Milton 350th Committee.  Over 50 people turned out for an amazing colonial-inspired menu created by Chef Douglass.

Second Annual "Shopping Days" for Milton and Hingham Public Elementary Schools

A big "thank you" to all the schools and parents who participated in this year's fundraiser. We raised over $8,000 for the eight public elementary schools in Hingham and Milton! Below are each school's fundraising totals:

MILTON

• Glover School earned $1850
• Tucker School earned $1300
• Cunningham School earned $990
• Collicot School earned $1450

HINGHAM

• South School earned $350
• Foster School earned $755
• East School earned $890
• Plymouth River School earned $667

Third Annual Fall Fest and Pumpkin Painting benefiting

Cradles-to-Crayons.

Milton - Saturday, October 15, 11am to 2pm

Hingham - Saturday, October 22, 11am to 2pm

For a $1 donation to Cradles-to-Crayons kids can paint a pumpkin here at the Fruit Center with paints and brushes provided by The Toy Chest at Milton Marketplace. Plenty of samples available too.

We raised $250 for Cradles-to-Crayons this year!

Thank you to everyone who came out and painted pumpkins.

Recent Fundraising Programs

17th Annual Food Fest & Auction

to benefit Father Bill's & Mainspring

Tuesday, July 26, 6;00pm.

The Ocean Club at Marina Bay, Quincy

Despite a brief rain shower, we had a wonderful time at this year's Food Fest. This year, we offered a watermelon, tomato and basil skewer with balsamic drizzle alongside a glass of sparkling rose cava with fresh strawberries. Over 1000 folks turned out to support this event, helping to raise over $200,000.

Thanks to the dedicated folks at Father Bill's for planning this amazing event.

8th Anuual Taste of Hingham

Saturday, May 21, 12 - 3p.m.

Main Street, Hingham

Another successful Taste of Hingham! For the eighth year in a row, we shared some of our exclusive food items. All proceeds from the event went to charities across the South Shore.

Click here to see more of our photos .

Our Earth Day Fundraiser for Sustainable South Shore

For Earth Day 2011, we decided to make a $2 donation to Sustainable South Shore for each customer that used reusable shopping bags on that day.  Between our two stores, 454 customers used reusable bags - that's a total of $908 that we'll donate to Sustainable South Shore!  Thank you to all of our customers who stopped by and shopped with reusable bags.

We had a wonderful evening at "Taste of the South Shore", a benefit for the South Shore YMCA

We served a Mango Raddichio Caprese Skewer with Basil Vinaigrette and Sparkling Wine with Fresh Strawberries. We also gave away a $100 Gourmet Wine Basket and free samples of Stonewall Kitchen Wild Blueberry Jam. Thank you to all the folks who came out and to our gracious hosts from the South Shore YMCA.