SUCCESS STORIES, Current Projects, and Future goals
Into The Right Hands
This is a fun lesson on how a single blessing can multiply! We learned about a family with a young daughter who had a car seat she could no longer use. When we asked a bit more, we learned that the donation was a special seat used to support the arms and legs of a paraplegic child. This amazing device was purchased to help safely transport the little girl so she could ride comfortably in the car with her family.
We knew we could help make someone's life better with a gift like this!
When we arrived to pick up the car seat, we were excited to meet the family and meet this incredible little girl. We loved hearing that she no longer needed this amazing donation. As we talked, we learned that the family also had a specialized car seat designed to help with seizures. It was a gigantic foam car seat with no hard edges and designed to provide security in the car and comfort and safety in case of a seizure.
The family wanted us to take both! This was awesome! Two life-changing donations!
Then they told us about all the additional medical supplies! As this family tried different ways to better their daughter's life, they collected a large quantity of supplies, including various liquid foods, medical items, and equipment.
We left with so many ways to help others!
The paraplegic car seat went to the Joseph Thomas Foundation. JTF is an amazing group that assists medically fragile children and their families with the procurement of medical equipment and/or services when other resources are unable to assist.
The epileptic car seat was sent to a special needs foster program that needed a way to safely transport a child prone to seizures.
The liquid diet supplies were sent to two groups that specialize in assisting families with children that require tube feeding.
We then divided up the remaining medical supplies and were able to send a majority of the donated items to Mission to Ukraine and Doctors without Borders.
Even the medical items that had expired, or could not be transported, were donated to the local animal shelter to help keep emergency and sterilization costs down for animals on their way to new forever homes.
This is what we do.
These are the ways we are blessed.
A simple donation allowed us to help multiple organizations and countless people by getting the donations Into The Right Hands.
A Solution for all sizes
Sometimes blessings come in abundance. Sometimes the abundance just arrives in the wrong location!
What happens when donors have great intentions, but the charity receiving the gift doesn't have a need or direct way to utilize the donation? These well-intended offerings can create quite a dilemma. Especially if they fill the storage areas that are needed for other items.
Into The Right Hands was contacted to help solve a logistical problem. The charity that contacted us specialized in helping children. Most of their supplies and equipment are smaller and designed for caring for the needs of kids. One of the items they received regularly included disposable undergarments. Most donations were smaller sized and were quickly delivered to families in need. Sometimes the gifts included larger sizes. With no requests for these sizes, the boxes began to fill the storage facility.
We love helping create solutions! These donations had the perfect opportunity to change lives. We just needed to get them Into The Right Hands.
Center of Hope is an amazing organization that addresses the material aspects of poverty and believes that true rehabilitation and restoration are only achieved through long-term solutions. They have focused their work on an integrated service model that addresses the holistic needs of individuals and leads them to a path of economic independence and improved quality of life. One of the many amazing services offered by Center of Hope is a store that offers reduced-priced personal items. It provides the ability for families to get the items they need and preserves dignity by allowing recipients to pay for items.
We learned that the store was always in need of this type of donation. Since most of the customers are adults, the larger size is exactly what they need the most! We also learned that by Center of Hope receiving these items at no cost, we were able to help Center of Hope save resources so they could be used to help others.
Every heartfelt donation is a blessing. Into the Right Hands helps to make sure that these gifts go to where they will do the most good.
Kid Zone! Joseph Thomas Foundation Fair
Into The Right Hands proudly partnered with Home Depot, Out of Bounds special needs ministry, Parker County United, and the Joseph Thomas Foundation to host the Kids Zone at the Joseph Thomas Foundation Fair.
Home Depot graciously provided activity kits and aprons that allowed families to spend time together building a project while making memories. We had the privilege of working with over 250 people as we hammered, painted, and glued as we laughed, made friends, and connected with the community.
Into The Right Hands worked with a wide variety of local restaurants and companies to promote local business and give gift cards. We love our supporters and donors and we love connecting good people to great companies!
The JTF Fair provided booth space for all nonprofits at no charge as a way to connect the community and the available services. There was food, fun, artisan booths, a car show, and even a kid-sized train!
Into The Right Hands truly appreciated the opportunity to network with so many like-minded groups working to make the world a better place!
Current Projects, Future goals, and SUCCESS STORIES
Do the Most Goodmobile
Into The Right Hands was recently blessed with an amazing donation! We were given a 2018 Chevy Express 2500 van! This amazing vehicle will fit our new wheelchair lift and allow us to transport up to five electric wheelchairs at once! We have so many donations that need to be transported, we feel truly blessed to be able to do so much good more safely!
As we get the Do the Most Goodmobile ready, we need some help. The van needs some body work and the lift needs to be professionally installed. We are hoping to raise $3,000.00 to get it ready to do awesome things.
We are working with a wrap company and are sharing our design idea! We are always looking for volunteers and if you would like to help design the wrap, just let us know.
We are asking for your help! We have set up a Do the Most Goodmobile GoFundMe to help raise the money needed to make this happen. We plan to wrap the van after the holiday rush. When we get the wrap designed, all donors that give over $500 will have their names added to the Thank You list on the rear door of the van. Any donations over $1,000 will have their name or logo displayed on the van as our way to thank you for your amazing gift that helps us make the world a better place.
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Repeating Success with a Donation That Fits
We understand the importance of independence, especially with our elderly and those with special needs.
Center of Hope provides many services to help those in need through reduced-price groceries and personal items. We are honored to partner with them to help provide supplies at no cost that can be distributed to those in need.
With our great partners, great blessing and great volunteers, we have been able to maximize our deliveries to help more people and organizations. We delivered wheelchairs and medical supplies to the Joseph Thomas Foundation and were able to take a full trailer load of donations that were ready to go Into The Right Hands!
We recently donated over 40 cases of diapers!