Christmas with compassion
Volunteers like Nataly Mendonca, Amanda St.Denis and Marialice Pontello provide all the logistics for the shops, from collecting to even serving as personal shoppers to help customers find that special gift. NEIGHBOR UP
Families shop with pride at Gifts from the Heart
Neighbor Up Brevard is one of the founding partners of Gifts from the Heart. Staff include, from left, bookkeeper Gale Babbitt, administrative support Cindy McAlister, executive director LaShaundra McGhee and grant manager Paula Schroeder. TOM WILBY PHOTOS
Maria Sonnenberg
Maria is a prolific writer and proofer for Space Coast Living and an adjunct professor at Florida Institute of Technology’s Nathan M. Bisk College of Business. When not writing, teaching or traveling, she can be found waging a one-woman war against her lawn and futilely attempting to maintain order among the chaos of a pack of extremely clueless wirehair dachshunds and an angst-driven basset hound.
