Hanna Helps

Grants and Gifts

Once a year in the Spring, HannaHelps awards grants or gifts to many 501(c)(3) nonprofit programs that create sustainable improvements in the lives of vulnerable children ages birth to ten. In Portland, Oregon, where company headquarters are based, our HannaShare Grant Committee is made up of dedicated employees who volunteer their time to review proposals, make site visits to organizations and recommend grant allocations.

Our focus is on children who are at-risk due to poverty, child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, homelessness, exposure to substance abuse, physical disabilities or mental health issues. We use these three criteria for grant and gift allocations:

• Building healthy lives for children
• Promoting children's participation and empowerment
• Supporting not-for-profit coalitions and public policy efforts that support children

HannaHelps does not fund:
• Auctions
• Capital expenditures, i.e., buildings
• Individuals or scholarships
• Religious activities
• Groups that discriminate in the hiring of staff or provision of services due to race, religion, national origin or sexual orientation

Here are some examples of our gifts and grants:

Jumpstart: Boston, MA
www.jstart.org
Jumpstart is a national non-profit organization working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. They do this through an extensive network ranging from a national board of directors, who oversee and govern their national operations, to their Corps members, who create caring, one-to-one relationships with preschoolers year after year.

Cash For Kids
www.hannaAndersson.com
Once a year every school-age child of a Hanna employee receives a $100 check made out to his or her school - the children give the checks to their principals, and we encourage them to make suggestions about how the money might be spent, which is wonderfully empowering to the children! The program also includes Title One elementary schools in our flagship community of Portland, Oregon. In Title One schools, at least 50% of the students receive Free or Reduced Lunch due to their families' low incomes.

Stand for Children: Portland, OR
www.stand.org
The Stand for Children organization is building a national grassroots movement on behalf of children's issues. Its Oregon chapters provide advocacy training regarding state and local public policy and investments to improve such issues as education, child care, after-school programs, as well as dental, physical and mental health for children.

Families & Children First: Louisville, KY
www.famchild.org
Family & Children First helps families and children cope with trauma and improve emotional, social, physical and education well being. Growing Great Kids is a new focus on early learning: it guides first time parents to ensure that infants and toddlers receive care in areas of health, nutrition, and nurturing. Appropriate expectations, pre-literacy skills, family relationships and mental health are strengthened to raise healthy, safe, successful children.

Cascade Aids Project: Portland, OR
www.cascadeaids.org
Hanna funds, matched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, helps Kid's Connection provide culturally appropriate services for children affected by HIV/AIDS. Camp Starlight is a recreational summer camp for these children.

Desarrollo Integral de la Familia: Portland, OR
www.difprograma.org
DIF provides culturally appropriate services to Hispanic families impacted by domestic and sexual violence.

New Directions Housing: Louisville , KY
www.ndhc.org
New Directions provides affordable housing and human services to homeless and distressed families. The Art Therapy Program gives children a safe emotional outlet to express things that are painful, forgotten or unknown; it helps to identify and address their emotional distress with art to give them a sense of identify and self worth.

OHSU Child Development and Rehabilitation Center: Portland, OR
www.ohsu.edu/outreach/cdrc
Family support includes family case management and medical social work for children with a wide range of developmental and physical challenges.

The Library Foundation: Portland, OR
www.libraryfoundation.org
This early literacy program for at-risk families reaches children before age 3, which is a crucial window for early language development.

Children's Relief Nursery: Portland, OR
www.crnnw.org
Home Base provides support to families waiting for an opening in the Therapeutic Classroom. These low-income families are at risk of child abuse and neglect.

Portland Impact: Portland, OR
www.portlandimpact.org
Development Services Portland Impact helps at-risk individuals and families gain housing, job and parenting skills, and self sufficiency. The PCDS program for children 0-5 leads to school readiness and supports families to better support their child's learning.

Boys & Girls Clubs: Portland, OR
www.bgcportland.org
Kids Café provides daily after-school programs to 400 youths, including educational programs to teach proper nutrition and lifestyle choices. It also provides a healthy meal every weekday during the summer.

Olive Crest: Newport Beach, CA
www.olivecrest.org
Olive Crest is dedicated to preventing child abuse, treating and educating at-risk children, and preserving the family "One life at a time®". The mentoring program helps youth gain self-assurance, confidence and the additional skills necessary for them to bridge the gap from being in the system and becoming independent.

Center for Women and Families: Louisville , KY
www.thecenteronline.org
The Center supports victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and economic hardship. In addition to Children's Services, services include: 24 hour crisis counseling, emergency shelter, transitional housing, case management, specialized support to immigrant/refugee women and children, hospital and legal advocacy, referral and follow up, education and professional training, and economic services.

Cerebral Palsy of Colorado: Denver, CO
www.cpco.org
CPCO serves 800 low-income, at risk children in the Denver area. Creative Options provides direct intervention services through Head Start and Early Head Start services in Aurora, Colorado. This proposal targets services in the poorest areas of Adams and Arapahoe counties.

Albertina Kerr Centers: Portland, OR
www.albertinakerr.org
KEIP prepares children with severe emotional issues and learning delays to enter kindergarten ready to learn. Small classroom instruction is supplemented by education and support for the parents and guardians.

Child Abuse Prevention Council: Kennebunk, ME
www.kidsfreetogrow.org
The Council educates children, parents and the community to prevent child abuse and neglect throughout York County. The Nurturing Program builds healthy family relationships and improves family functionality. Participants learn positive parenting skills through role modeling and education about realistic expectations for each age group.

Court Appointed Special Advocates of DuPage County: Chicago, IL
www.dupagecasa.org
CASA of DuPage represents abused, neglected and dependent children in DuPage County's juvenile and family court system. CASA recruits, screens, trains and supervises citizen volunteers who monitor a child's case while it is in court. Judges use information supplied by CASA advocates to make well-informed decisions about the child's placement and treatment.

Children's Place Association: Chicago, IL
www.childrens-place.org
CPA improves the lives of HIV/AIDS-affected children and families with a continuum of services to address interrelated crises such as illness and poverty. The comprehensive services give children a chance to have healthy and productive childhoods and successful adult lives.

Cornerstone: Bloomington , MN
www.cornerstonemn.org
Cornerstone provides primary prevention and early intervention services to families and children who have experienced family violence. Services include individual and group counseling, youth and family therapy, and school-based violence prevention education.

Pediatric Interim Care Center (PICC): Kent, Washington
www.picc.net
PICC provides 24-hour interim (between hospital and home) care for drug-exposed and medically fragile infants from throughout Washington. Specialized medical care for newborns in withdrawal averages 30 days. PICC also provides family case management, caregiver training for families, and community education in the recognition and management of substance-abused infants.

Dodge Nature Center: South St. Paul, MN
www.dodgenaturecenter.org
Dodge Nature Center is an environmental education center located ten minutes from downtown St. Paul on 320 acres. Facilities include raptor mews, orchards, bee hives, organic gardens, wetlands, woodlands, prairie and miles of trails. Outreach includes partnerships with local school districts to enable inner-city students to participate, often for their only exposure to wild animals and the natural environment.

Kids on the Block Awareness Program: Portland, OR
www.powerfulpuppetry.org
KOBAP uses puppetry to help children understand and accept differences in one another and to stay safe in difficult situations. Over 70 trained volunteers deliver free educational programs to schools in three counties, reaching over 65,000 students per year. Portland's KOBAP is the largest in the word. Over 20 Hanna employees work together to raise money for KOBAP through its annual sand castle building event.

Vendor Grants
Allocated each Spring, these grants are recommended by our vendors as a way to give back to communities that support them. Two Peruvian vendors who produce many of our handknit sweater products recommended grants to Peruvian nonprofits.

Children's Choice Grants
Our children love to give, too! As part of the annual national event called "Take Your Child to Work Day" the children of Hanna Andersson employees in Portland meet together, learn about several non-profit organizations, and help allocate $500 among five groups which support kids in need.