Healing Grace: Center for Hope and Healing Launches Shoe Drive Fundraiser to Raise Money to support programming
(Plattsburgh, NY, 2022) – Healing Grace: Center for Hope and Healing www.healinggraceph.org is conducting a shoe drive fundraiser on May 1st. 2022 to June 29th, 2022, to raise funds to continue our support of families of infant death and pregnancy loss. Healing Grace will earn funds based on the total weight of the pairs of gently worn, used and new shoes collected, as Funds2Orgs will issue a check for the collected shoes. Those dollars will benefit our programming and ongoing operational costs. Anyone can help by donating gently worn, used and new shoes at Healing Grace: Center for Hope and Healing at 62 Brinkerhoff St., Suite 104, Plattsburgh, NY 12901. Healing Grace will also be collecting at their table at the Women’s Expo at the West Side Ballroom on April 30, 2022, and at their table in Champlain Centre on May 7th, 2022, and at various locations throughout Clinton, Essex and Franklin Counties. If you would like one of our volunteers to pick up your donation please call 518-254-5505.
All donated shoes will then be redistributed throughout the Funds2Orgs network of micro-enterprise (small business) partners. Funds2Orgs works with micro-entrepreneurs in helping them create, maintain and grow small businesses in developing countries where economic opportunity and jobs are limited. Proceeds from the sales of the shoes collected in shoe drive fundraisers are used to feed, clothe and house their families. One budding entrepreneur in Haiti even earned enough to send her son to law school.
“We are so ecstatic about our shoe drive. This drive not only supports our families of loss in the North Country, but we are supporting families globally to create micro-enterprises that will create financial stability for their families,” said Sarah Wojtaszek, founder, and executive director. “We know that most people have extra shoes in their closets, and we ask you to donate them to our organization. By doing so, we raise money for Healing Grace, and we have the chance to help families in developing nations who need economic opportunities. It’s a win-win for everyone.”
By donating gently worn, used and new shoes to the Healing Grace Drive for Shoes, the shoes will be given a second chance and make a difference in people’s lives around the world.
About Healing Grace: Center for Hope and Healing
At Healing Grace Perinatal Hospice, Inc. a 501(c)3 our mission is to provide support, guidance, love, and community to families that have suffered the death of an infant at any stage of pregnancy and within the first year of life, to cultivate hope and healing in their journey after loss. To find healing and to learn to live again after the loss of a baby or pregnancy comes from connection. Providing peer support for mothers, facilitated groups for partners and fathers and implementing a children’s grief group and many other types of support to meet the diverse needs of our community.
Healing Grace Perinatal Hospice, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Donations are tax-deductible as outlined by IRS tax regulations.
Posted: April 13th, 2022 under Community Events, Northern NY News.