Couple pays off student meals at Orange Grove Elementary
Orange Grove Elementary received a generous donation to pay off school meals from the fall semester. Buster and Nelda Tindel donated $2,700 to their local elementary school.…
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Long Beach School District receives $10,000 donation
The Long Beach School District received a donation of $10,000 from Alliance Health Center to help with its Early Learning Program. The collaboration supports the district’s pre-k program with…
Church Hosts Blood Drive For Coast Girl
First Missionary Baptist Church in Bay St. Louis hosts a blood drive for a two-year-old coast girl named Amora Swanier. Swanier was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia back in May. She has been overcoming battles since birth from being born prematurely…
Goodwill Express Donation Station drive-up donation event in Gautier
Did you know that you don’t have to go to a Goodwill store in order to donate items? The City of Gautier is the first municipality on…
Moss Point K9 Buddy to receive new vest in honor of Exo
Moss Point K9 Buddy, who was injured in the line of duty on March 29, will receive a new stab- and bullet-proof vest that also honors a fallen comrade. Moss Point Police announced this morning that Vest Interest in K9s,…
Land bought for Mississippi casino site donated to nonprofit
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi businessman has donated land once intended for a casino site to a local nonprofit. Chris Ferrara came close to developing a casino years ago in east Biloxi, but has now donated the 30-acre property…
IP Casino donates to local charities
IP Casino Resort Spa continues its long-standing record of charitable giving, donating a total of $839,000 to local charities and organizations to date in 2021. IP Casino Resort Spa and Boyd Gaming are dedicated to giving back to the communities we…
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College receives $20 million donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
MGCCC is one of 286 organizations to receive a donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, as announced in her Medium blog post earlier today, “Seeding by Ceding.” The donation of $20 million is the largest gift in the college’s history. “This…
Ohr-O'Keefe gifted with major donation of African American artwork
A collection of 50 pieces of African American artwork are now housed at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, thanks to a donation by collector Gordon W. Bailey. Bailey, who lives in Los Angeles, said he was honoring the…
A steady stream of donations keep landing at Brown Condor Aviation Heritage Museum
The Brown Condor Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum depends on donations to keep up and running. As we reported recently, a steady flow of anonymous donations keep landing in the hands of those who operate the Gulfport museum.…
Huge delivery of school supplies donated to local students
What started off as just a Facebook post turned into a huge community effort bringing in over $30,000 worth of school supplies to teachers in Harrison and Hancock counties. Theses supplies were divided up and brought to schools where they…
AT&T Foundation Donates $15,000 to Feeding the Gulf Coast to support those impacted by COVID-19
GULFPORT, Miss. — The AT&T Foundation is donating $15,000 to Feeding the Gulf Coast in Gulfport to support those most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The contribution will be used to help provide meals for children, families and seniors along…
Mississippi Coast police, fire departments among agencies to receive N95 masks donated by Sherwin Williams
(WXXV) — Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced that Sherwin Williams, a leading American manufacturer of paints, has donated 5,000 3M N95 masks to first responders across Mississippi. The masks are being distributed through First Responders of Mississippi (FROM), a non-profit…
Beau Rivage donates to local food banks
With casinos closed all across the Coast, the Beau Rivage is giving back to local organizations in the form of food. The Beau has partnered up with local food banks to donate perishable food they have on property to those…
Taylor Swift donates $1 mil for Tennessee tornado relief
Taylor Swift is donating a million dollars to help with tornado recovery in Tennessee. The singer says Nashville is her home and the losses in the state are devastating to her. Twenty-four people were killed and hundreds of buildings are…
Wells Fargo donates to Biloxi nonprofit
Wells Fargo representatives were in Biloxi today to present one organization with a big gift. Community and education leaders were on hand at the Lopez School for the presentation of an $80,000 check to Biloxi’s Excel by 5 organization. The…
How you can help save the sea turtles
The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport has saved the lives of thousands of sea turtles, but now they need your help. Dr. Mystera Samuelson said, “So, he has been with us for about a year. He came in…
Lynn Meadows receives $10,000 donation
Harrah’s Gulf Coast and Caesar’s Foundation are paving the way for more renovations in the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center. Today, they presented $10,000 to support renovations in the facility's history hotel exhibit. The History Hotel is a hands-on role playing…
Mississippi Center for Autism receives donation
The Mississippi Center for Autism has been helping people on the Coast since 2005. Today, they received a little bit of help from a local bank. Merchant & Marine Bank presented a $1,400 check to the Mississippi Center for Autism…
Mississippi Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities to Receive Donation
Merchants and Marine Bank will present a donation to the Mississippi Center for Autism and Related Developmental Disabilities (MCARDD) at 4 p.m. this afternoon at their Autism Center. The Center says they are very grateful to their community neighbors for…
Harrison County School District receives big surprise donation
The Harrison County School District gets a big surprise! Mississippi Gulf Coast resident Mr. Darrell Saucier passed away in April and chose the Harrison County School District to be the beneficiary of his life savings. That’s a total of more…
WXXV viewer donates check to Seashore Mission
Yesterday, News 25 told you about a local day center for the homeless that needed help to service their nine air cooling units. After seeing this story on WXXV, a viewer donated a check to the Seashore Mission in Biloxi…
Salvation Army seeking volunteers
With Christmas just a little over a week away, the Salvation Army is still in need of more bell ringers. They are seeking volunteers and donations. All donations made will help the Gulf Coast area. Donations made online also stay…
Biloxi Doll And Toy Fund Donation Drive
News 25's Hank Davis interviews Steven Broussard about the Biloxi Doll And Toy Fund Donation Drive happening though out the month of January. For more information please visit Redbasket.org
