Nov 122013
 
Fundraiser For Struggling Single Parent Families

On Thursday, December 5th 2013, Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation will hold its annual Fundraiser for Struggling Single Parent Families.

The focus of many fundraisers is to flatter donors with plush surroundings and a gourmet dinner. The focus of EHHF’s 2013 fundraiser is to raise funds for disadvantaged single parent families and underprivileged children in desperate need. In the context of a genuine human suffering (the looming prospect of homelessness or hunger), plush surroundings and gourmet food seem like an inappropriate indulgence. That’s why it’s been decided that this year’s Fundraiser for Struggling Single Parent Families will take a more modest form.

There will be a pizza party in Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s Headquarters! The event will be small and inexpensive, but its focus will remain where it belongs: on generating funds for the most vulnerable among us.

Of course, there will be fun and a wonderful silent auction as well!
EHHF expresses its appreciation to the companies who generously support our fundraising efforts:

Knott’s Berry Farm
Sherwin Williams
Green Mountain Coffee® (Keurig)
The Cheesecake Factory
P.F. Changs
Ben and Jerry

Many of the situations Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation encounters are dramatic: there’re struggling single mothers whose babies have no diapers; unemployed single mothers who have no way of feeding their children; poor single parents who share one bed with 3 children. There are some cases that are even more heartbreaking. There are single mothers “sentenced” to a life of poverty because their disabled child requires 24/7 care. There are children who’re crime victims; single mothers dealing with a trauma; single parent families facing homelessness…
These are real people, real stories of struggling single parents in a desperate need. Let’s spare one evening this Christmas Season to elevate some of the suffering of disadvantaged single parent families and underprivileged children.

If you are a successful single parent; if you used to be a single parent; if you were raised by a single parent and finally, if you don’t have a personal experience with single parenthood but care enough to support the cause, you’re welcome to participate in Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s 2013 Fundraiser for Struggling Single Parent Families.

A poor, single Mother and Her Special Baby Boy are at the heart of Christmas, what better way to honor the Season than by raising funds for other poor single mothers and their innocent children?…

Come one and all: everyone is welcome! If you purchase admission here  you’ll be automatically added to the guest list. If you prefer to pay at the door, RSVP please: space is limited.

Location: Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s Headquarters
Address: 12128 Vanowen Street; N. Hollywood, CA 91605.
Date: Thursday, December 5th 2013
Time: 7 pm
Admission: $50.00 per person
To RSVP by phone call: (818) 503-7775

Can’t come? Can you contribute an item to EHHF’s Silent Auction? Please contact us: the more money we raise, the more struggling single parent families will be helped! Prefer to donate money? Please do!

All donations are tax-deductible.

EHHF’s Fundraiser for Struggling Single Parent Families is booked above and beyond capacity! (We can’t accept any more RSVPs, sorry!) Thank you for all your RSVPs and generous support:

Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation; its Board members and staff

CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU TONIGHT!

Jul 172013
 
Sherwin Williams Paint Stores Group Logo

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!