EHHF Appreciates Its Supporters in 2013

 EHHF Appreciates Its Supporters in 2013  Uncategorized EHHF's Posts
Dec 092013
 
SOVA Helps EHHF

As the year comes to an end, we’re reflecting on 2013. We think of the many worried single parents with children helped by Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation: we remember the relief in the parents’ eyes and the smiles of kids – after each received a toy, or shoes – who can’t understand life’s struggles, yet.

We think also of individuals and organizations that had the courage, heart and ability to support EHHF’s mission of meeting essentials needs of struggling single parents with children and of educating the parents to help them develop self-sufficiency skills.

Thanksgiving may be over, but the time for giving thanks isn’t. Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation wishes to express heartfelt thanks to its many generous donors, contributors, volunteers and supporters: EACH of you is extra-ordinary! EACH of you is a hero! EACH of you has made a difference! EACH of you played an important role in relieving human suffering and helping build a better future for underprivileged children and empowering single parents, many of whom were giving up hope. THANK YOU!!!

Our very special thanks go to four MAJOR forces for good:

  • L.A. Diaper Drive for providing much needed diapers as incentive for attending self-improvement workshops. Wonderful organization, L.A. Diaper Drive is a generous supporter and a great motivator!
  • Sherwin Williams Paint Store in Glendale for continuing support of EHHF’s fundraising efforts. A great and highly recommended store with a heart of gold focused on the future of America!
  • Kimo’s Appliances for coming through with a donation of a refrigerator when it was so badly needed!

Last but NOT least, Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation thanks SOVA the food bank of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. Both SOVA and Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles are organizations that not only tirelessly serve the poor in the community, but generously support other charities in fulfilling their missions. SOVA is our hero and a savior!

SOVA Saves EHHF

SOVA, the food bank of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles provided EHHF’s members / beneficiaries with desperately needed food when NO food was available from ANY other source (in November and December 2013!) and for this Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation is exceedingly grateful. EHHF was both, humbled and honored by the generosity and solidarity of SOVA.

As we’re nearing New Year, everyone has wishes for the upcoming 2014. To all EHHF’s allies: may the New Year bless you richly for the goodness you’ve had for fellow human beings in need! As for Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation, our dream continues: EHHF wishes for a facility that would provide housing, meals, child care and employment so no struggling single parent with a child would ever be hopeless!

Happy New Year!

EHHF’s Fundraiser for Needy Single Parents with Children

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Dec 052013
 

Fundraiser For Struggling Single Parent Families
 

Tonight’s THE night of Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s 2013 Fundraiser for Struggling Single Parent Families. (We can’t accept any more RSVPs.) Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation; its Board members and staff look forward to an evening filled with the Charitable  Spirit of the Season; good company; good food; fun and an EXCITING Silent Auction! See you soon!

EHHF Brings Relief to Needy Single Parent Families

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Nov 272013
 
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Holidays are coming. Preparations for Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s 2013 Fundraiser are in full swing. EHHF’s dedication to the cause of needy single parent families is unaffected by either: the work to relieve human suffering is on-going. Hungry single parent families receive food; kids are provided with warm clothing. No qualified applicant is turned away.

A life of service can be demanding. But seeing a worried mother smile because there’ll be food on the table for her children for a while or watching children smile over new clothing is worth every effort!

 

 

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World Harvest Food Bank The New Ally of Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation

 World Harvest Food Bank The New Ally of Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation  Uncategorized EHHF's Posts
Sep 092013
 

World Harvest Food Bank

 

On 09/06/2013 representatives of Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation met with the Founder, President and CEO of World Harvest Food Bank in Los Angeles, Mr. Glen Curado. This was EHHF’s first visit and quite frankly, we were overwhelmed: the large facility and warehouse of World Harvest Food Bank is located in one of the poorer neighborhoods in L.A., exactly where the need for food is the greatest.

World Harvest Food Bank food selection

 

The colorful storefront invites passersby; there’s an abundant stock of non-perishable and fresh foods; staffers and volunteers lovingly take care of the place and inventory. The working principle of the food bank is both generous and fair: pay $30.00 for up to 200 pounds(!) of food OR if you can’t afford to pay, you have the option of contributing four hours of volunteer work for the same benefits!

For the EHHF’s delegation, the visit to World Harvest Food Bank has been eye-opening: a great learning experience as well as an inspiration. WHFB is older than Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation and its successful development gave us further motivation to persist in our own efforts.

EHHF's And World Harvest Food Bank's First Meeting

 

Mr. Glen Curado – the Founder, President and CEO of World Harvest Food Bank – is a dynamic presence, a generous mentor and an altogether, first class act. He was full of ideas and helpful suggestions most of which we’ll definitely use in our own work. His passion for the cause of helping the poor is nothing short of contagious!

The first meeting led to the creation of an alliance and EHHF partnering with World Harvest Food Bank. Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation received a large amount of food and beverages that we cannot wait to distribute to the single mother families who count on us to supplement their grocery budgets every month.

Two EHHF's Trucks Full of Food

 

What a momentous event in the history of our organization!
Better yet, it wasn’t a one time event. As a partner of WHFB, EHHF will be receiving food from World Harvest Food Bank monthly which will enable us to help even more single parent families in San Fernando Valley than we’re helping already. What a welcome development!

Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation is honored to be the newest partner of World Harvest Food Bank and looks forward to building a powerful alliance with WHFB.

World Harvest Food Bank
1014 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Phone: 213-746-2227
Website: http://WorldHarvestFoodBank.org/

More Food For Poor Single Mother Families Thanks To Kimo’s Appliances

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Jul 292013
 

As those of you who follow Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s blog surely know, EHHF – and its members / beneficiaries! – have been desperate for a refrigerator for quite a while now.
Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation has approached many major companies and retailers with requests for a donation of a refrigerator within the last 4 months. Our requests have been ignored by many.

Meanwhile, Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s Shop EHHF Pantry program, which helps stretch struggling single parents’ grocery budgets, is expanding and attracts more and more recipients each month. EHHF is very thankful for the support of donors who contribute food to our pantry. However a large portion of the food donations we’re receiving consists of fresh, perishable foods. It is great because they’re healthy for young families and growing children. Unfortunately, in California, without the ability to refrigerate food, a lot of well-meaning fresh food donations were going to waste; that’s why obtaining a refrigerator donation was of utmost importance to us.

Kimo's Appliances

Kimo’s Appliances donated desperately needed refrigerator to help EHHF feed poor single mother families in San Fernando Valley, CA

Today, I’m delighted to announce that thanks to the generosity and compassion of Kimo’s Appliances, Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation has a refrigerator, at last!!!
There won’t be any more wasted food! There’ll be MORE nutritious food available to disadvantaged single parent families and children!

Thanks to the support of Kimo’s Appliances, EHHF will be able to reach more single mother families in need and help put more food on more tables!
It’s a rerigerator, but it’s also a milestone in our growth: Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation extends its sincere thanks to Kimo’s Appliances. You didn’t help some faceless organization but poor single mothers and hungry children to fill their need for nutritious food.

If you – the reader – are not in need but a visitor / prospective donor reading this page, please lend your patronage to Kimo’s Appliances. Kimo’s offers a wide variety of new and used appliances for every budget. Their prices are very competitive and their services include delivery and installation. (They’ll even haul away your old appliances!) Kimo’s Appliances is a solid, local company known for its integrity. With that said, Kimo’s is not only a profit-generating enterprise but an investor into the future of our community.

Sherwin Williams’ Commitment To Struggling Single Parents

 Sherwin Williams’ Commitment To Struggling Single Parents  Uncategorized EHHF's Posts
Jul 172013
 
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At Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation every day is dedicated to helping single mother families in crisis; to finding solutions for individual families; to the endless pursuit of charitable contributions which – as you can easily imagine – is quite discouraging in today’s economic climate. (Case in point, a whole group of Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s beneficiaries is desperate for mattresses. We contacted many mattress manufacturers, distributors and stores to no avail…)

Sherwin Williams Paint Stores Group (thanks to the generosity and common sense of one of its store managers, Mr. Yashar Basmenji) has come to the rescue of struggling single mother families with a generous donation of a large amount of paint. The donation brings relief to the EHHF’s members / beneficiaries who are in need of home renovations. The remaining paint – as well as anticipated future donations of paint from Sherwin Williams – will be used for fundraising.

Not every donor realizes that a donation of goods – even if they’re not listed on EHHF’s urgently needed list – can be used for fundraising and – in form of funds – used to purchase urgently needed goods.

Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation and quite a few of its members are in a jubilant mood, hoping to eventually turn Sherwin Williams’ donations of paint into at least one desperately needed mattress and – God willing! – baby diapers.

Sherwin Williams Paint Stores Group Logo
From the bottom of our collective heart: thank you Sherwin Williams Paint Stores Group AND Yashar!

If you’re not a single parent in need and reading this page, please buy your paint at your local Sherwin Williams Paint Store. Sherwin Williams sells superb quality paint, wall coverings and paint supplies. Sherwin Williams is known for the excellent quality of the products it sells; it should be known also for its commitment to the community it serves. Sherwin Williams didn’t say “no” like so many others today do; it defied the trend and extended helping hand to the most vulnerable among us: disadvantaged single mothers and underprivileged children. Kudos to Sherwin Williams and God Bless Yashar!

Best Buy Donates Computers To Help Single Parents In Need Improve Their Job Skills

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Feb 032013
 

Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation is grateful for – and moved by – the generosity of Best Buy.

Best Buy Helps

Best Buy, the store well-known for selling top of the line electronics, is in touch with the reality of today’s economy. Best Buy has just donated computer equipment to EHHF which will be used to help unemployed and under-employed single parents improve their job skills!

Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation assists disadvantaged, single parent families with their essential needs for food and goods. We believe however that (in the words of C.S. Lewis) “The proper aim of giving is to put the recipients in a state where they no longer need our gifts.” That’s why we’re launching EHHF’s Seminars and Workshops to improve our aid recipients’ job skills by teaching Computer Literacy, Money Management and Resume Writing, and more.
Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation will continue providing immediate “survival assistance” but our ultimate goal is to enable disadvantaged single parents to achieve self-sufficiency. Self-sufficiency makes individuals proud, parents competent and children thrive!

That’s why Best Buy’s generous donation of two (all-in-one) computers, a router and even anti-virus software is so important us. It is a step toward a permanent solution: it will allow EHHF empower struggling single parents with skills that will help them get good jobs.
Best Buy’s generosity especially in today’s economic climate – when for many poverty seems to be a life’s sentence – is priceless to the disadvantaged single parents Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation serves! Thank you Best Buy for caring about our community!