Check out the Holiday Newsletter!

Brrr!! It’s getting cold – time to curl up with a blanket and the Holiday Newsletter from Helping Hand House!

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Thanks so much!

Northwest Children’s Fund honors HHH with designation as a “Silver Anniversary Partner”

A letter from Northwest Children’s Fund Director Victoria Peattie Helm:

Dear Nola,

In 1985, four women were inspired to create something new and special in Seattle: an organization devoted to helping children in need, and to growing social service philanthropy among their peers.  From this inspired beginning, Northwest Children’s Fund has evolved into one of the Northwest’s premier grant-making organizations, igniting the philanthropic spirit and connecting nearly ten million donor dollars to agencies like yours, who share our mission of ending child abuse and neglect.

I am writing on behalf of the NWCF Board of Directors to invite Helping Hand House to accept a designation as a “Silver Anniversary Partner” as Northwest Children’s Fund celebrates its first quarter century of connecting our community with children in need. You are one of 25 agencies that our Board of Directors has selected from our 300 past grant recipients for this designation.

While the designation does not carry any monetary value, we look forward to commemorating our relationship to date and to highlight the work of both of our organizations.

We hope that you will elect to accept our invitation, so that we may highlight your organization as one of NWCF’s longstanding partners in the fight against child abuse and neglect – and so that you may share with us this year in our celebrations and outreach efforts.

Sincerely,

Victoria Peattie Helm

Executive Director

Needless to say, we accepted the honor! Thank you to Northwest Children’s Fund for their long partnership with our families and mission at Helping Hand House. We’re proud to be serving, and honored to be recognized in such a way.

We’re on YouTube…check us out!

Well, we’ve hit YouTube – click here to check in on the videos we have on our channel, and subscribe to get updated as we put new ones up around the holidays! Thanks for watching!

Cozy or cold…

Fall is officially here – and with it, the crisp air, the damp leaves and hard rains. If you have a home, the fall is a cozy time – coffee and a good book on the couch. But if you are living in your car, the fall is beginning of a long, cold season of perpetual coughs, constant tiredness after a night of difficult sleep, and sad memories. We just wanted to add some perspective, and invite you to take a look at the ways you can serve people this holiday season – at Helping Hand House or another organization that is caring for people in need. Maybe it’s a soup kitchen, or helping out sorting clothes at St. Francis House. There are a lot of ways to serve – bring your kids and make it a family event! As always, we’d love to have you involved here (we can always use the help!) but the most important thing is that families are safe, healthy, and warm this holiday season.
This is a time when we need to band together – and we are so grateful for your friendship through it! Thanks so much.