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Help assist A Mom's Helping Hand assist students by donating new school supplies or making a financial contribution today by clicking here. New school supplies can be dropped off at AMHH's office, Record Health Chiropractic or Title Junction School Supply Program
To learn more about the school supply program, contact Kristen Peterson at amhh@comcast.net or 239-895-5341. Those in need of school supplies click here for more information on qualifications and to pre-register. If you wish to donate new school supplies, you can deliver supplies to AMHH office, Record Health Chiropractic or Title Junction or make a monetary donation to A Mom's Helping Hand and designate "school supply program". Your gift will make a difference! School Supply List (new supplies only please): 
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 Attention highly competitive people who think they really know Cape Coral. From 1:30 to 4:40 p.m. July 21, up to 50 teams will use their best detective skills to participate in the second annual Seek in the City Scavenger Hunt, which is put on by A Mom’s Helping Hand of SWFL.
Teams of five people may register at https://www.amomshelpinghandofswfl.com/seek-in-the-city.html for a fee of $40. Proceeds will be used to help send students back to school prepared this school year, which helps children from low-income families succeed in school when they have the proper tools. Form an office team and compete against other real estate offices. Prove your team knows the most about the Cape! Clues can include fun facts or details about anything from restaurants and shops to the local art scene. Registration will increase to $50 the day of the event so be sure to send your registration form in early. Our mission is to raise funds for a great cause in a fun way while helping businesses in the community and this is a great way to do it. Assembling teams can also be a complex mission. This is a great team-building activity and getting more companies and their employees involved. We have some great prizes donated by our area businesses and will have a special trophy for the real estate office that beats out their competitors! All the fun starts at Right Choice Realty, Cape Coral Branch located at 1213 SE 47th Ter.  If you think you really know Cape Coral, test your knowledge during A Mom's Helping Hand of SWFL's 2nd annual Seek in the City scavenger hunt.
Teams will compete against other teams by giving each a handful of riddles that lead them to local businesses and fun activities. The event is a fun way to get the community involved in raising funds while helping support local families and local businesses. The scavenger hunt begins July 21st at 1:30 p.m. and lasts into the evening. Teams can be up to 5-6 people and are given about 40 clues that will lead them to different locations in the city. Once clues are solved correctly, teams earn points based on the difficulty and creativity of the participants. The cost to register a team of up to five people is $40, will be $50 the day of the event. Want a sneak peak on some clues? Keep an eye on our Facebook page in the coming days! The event is raising money to provide school supplies to send students back to school prepared this coming school year. The teams are encouraged to dress in costume. For more details and to register for the event, visit https://bit.ly/2sz0Nwj August 10th is the first day of school in Lee County. Summer vacation will be gone in the blink of an eye and it will be time for the daily school routine again. Early alarm clocks, backpacks packed and homework begin. A Mom’s Helping Hand wants to make sure the children are prepared with the essential tools they need for the classroom and a successful school year. However, we need YOUR help provide these things – school supplies, uniforms, and clothing. This is our 4th year helping to send children back to school prepared. Each year the number of students we serve increases. Each year we coordinate a School Supplies Collection and each year you, our generous donors, come through to lend a hand for our children. Thank you for that! We truly could not fulfill our mission without you. This year we are asking for your support once again. When children have the proper materials, we can help them strive for the best. We serve children from Kindergarten to their senior year! That is a tall order but with your help, one we know we can fulfill. Thank you for your continued support! Middle/High School Needed Items (Per Backpack)
A Mom’s Helping Hand Flamingo Flocking: May 12 – July 21
Cape Coral, FL April 30, 2018 -The Flamingo Fundraiser is fun and an attention-getter as a fundraiser. People can donate to have a small or large flock of flamingos roost on someone’s yard. Then those people can donate to have the flock moved to another yard and so on. We start this Saturday, May 12th just in time for Mother’s Day and will go through Saturday, July. 21st. There will be Flock Insurance to purchase for $10 to keep the flock away from your yard. If people want to donate more, of course they can. This is an annual fundraiser to help us provide school supplies to ensure children return to school prepared! In addition, if anyone is interested, we are working on funding to move to a bigger space. We have a building in mind that would be perfect for us and would allow us to continue the services we provide. We are in need of $9,600 to make the move. Whoever would like to donate can go to our website and either register for the fundraiser; or donate to our expansion project. Contact: A Mom’s Helping Hand of SWFL Kristen Peterson 3440 Marinatown Lane #201 North Fort Myers, FL 33903 239.895.5341  If you’ve walked in to any store recently, you may have noticed that Christmas decorations, trees, lights and all the trim have already started making their way to the shelves and floors. It’s been an ongoing trend that Christmas preparations seem to start earlier and earlier each year. This is the perfect time to start thinking about local families that might need a bit of extra help this festive season.
That’s where A Mom’s Helping Hand of SWFL comes in. The organization organizes a family adoption each year at Christmas time for single mother families who are struggling in some way. It could be through financial hardship or just getting by and Christmas is just not possible, often through no fault of their own. The families are carefully screened and partake in a support group program on a regular basis. These families can use a bit of extra support this Christmas, and people can ‘adopt’ a family, putting together a festive package for them to lighten the load a little this Christmas. We have several supporters that sign up for a family every year. Some are very blessed and want to make Christmas a little brighter for a struggling family while others tell us they’ve been where these families are and now that things have changed for them they would like to give back and help and pay it forward. While these families are different in many ways, they have one thing in common. They have all told us how much they enjoyed taking part in our SWFL Santa’s program. AMHH asks that adopters purchase gifts for a family they select from the charity’s list, which is posted on their website. Donations could include “non-perishable Christmas food items, personal care items, table decorations, plus unwrapped gifts for each member of the 'adopted' family.” While only a few of the families have been added, all the families are expected to be added by October 20th. The items should be unwrapped so the parents can share in the fun too. Some families have special wrapping paper and others just want to feel a part of the process. The donation deadline is December 9th. For more information on how you can help, visit http://www.amomshelpinghandofswfl.com/swfl-santas.html Hello AMHH Supporters!We hope everyone is recovering from Hurricane Irma and had little or no damage! Our hearts and prayers are with those that have damage or still dealing with the effects. We are very thankful to be part of a wonderful community that has come together after such a horrible tragedy. Do you know a single mom who could use some encouragement? Looking for others who understand the day to day struggles and triumphs? Share AMHH with them. We invite them to join us at one of our upcoming meetings. We meet the first Monday and third Wednesday of every month. We welcome new faces and enjoy getting to know new moms and kids. We are a community that has turned into a family! Share our Facebook page and/or website  SWFL Santa’s
It’s that time of year, we are gearing up for our SWFL Santa’s holiday program. Please consider getting your work-place, school, church, Scouts, or even Bunko group involved. The success of this program will take a village, a lot of pre-planning and patient coordination. If interested you will be able to communicate the size of the family you would like to be paired with. Then AMHH will pair our families with community members and groups in mid October. At that time you will be given a brief bio and wish list from the family. We tell them they may not get everything on their list, but you never know…! If you are interested in participating, contact us at amomshelpinghand@yahoo.com or by calling 239-895-5341 Gifts of any size will make a difference and are greatly appreciated. To make a donation, send a check payable to A Mom’s Helping Hand of SWFL (AMHH) 3440 Marinatown Lane #201 North Fort Myers, FL 33903 Gifts can also be made online For more information or to arrange for delivery of Christmas Gifts, call Kristen, 239-895-5341. Bare Necessities Our Bare Necessities shelves are pretty depleted. Our next Bare Necessities day is Saturday, October 7th and there are a few areas that are empty or close to it and we need your help! Help us fill the shelves back up by holding a Bare Necessities Drive at your workplace, church, neighborhood or with your friends and family. We are more than happy to come pick up any donated items or you can drop them by the office anytime Saturday's from 12 pm - 2 pm or by appointment! Here are our current top needs: • Shampoo • Conditioner • Laundry Soap • Cleaners  We're really excited to let you know that we're a part of the Macy's Shop for a Cause Charity Challenge. It's a friendly fundraising campaign launched by Macy's where local charities across the country compete to raise the most money with the top teams winning grand prize cash donations.
It starts on July 11th at 12pm ET and a total of $300,000 will be given away to organizations in the Challenge. We're ready to raise as much money as we can so we can win the $100,000 grand prize donation. How You Can Help Please consider joining our team as a fundraiser. By setting up a fundraiser for our cause and reaching out to your network of supporters, you can help us make an even bigger impact and get us closer to that grand prize. It takes less than five minutes to set up a fundraiser. All you have to do is Go Here https://www.crowdrise.com/a-moms-helping-hand-of-swfl1 and click 'Fundraise for This Campaign.' If for some reason you can't fundraise for our campaign, we'll reach out when the Challenge launches to ask you to give to our cause. Every donation makes a difference, no matter how big or small. Thank you in advance for your support.  During June and July, A Mom’s Helping Hand of SWFL is conducting a school supply drive. Every child deserves to have the best educational opportunities possible, but many lack the tools needed to succeed. In 2016, the average family spent $103.94 on school supplies for students in grades K-12. Low-income single parents, who already lack discretionary income, are faced with the decision between buying school supplies or using the money to pay the power bill or rent, or to put food on the table. Our goal is to provide children of single parents with the supplies they need to allow them to succeed this school year. We need your help to make our annual school supply collection a success. You can help by donating school supplies from June 15th – July 22nd and/or by making a monetary donation. School supplies will be used to help students of single parents. Facts $103.94 – Average Amount Spent on School Supplies in 2016 $450 – Average Amount Teacher Spends on School Supplies 28th – Florida’s Rank Among the States’ Average Teacher Salaries 43rd – Florida’s Rank Among the States in Per Student Spending 70% – Percentage of Low Income Students in Lee County Schools 92,590 – Number of Students in Lee County Schools - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - School Supply Donation Form Name ______________________________________________________________
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For many single moms getting the kids ready for school can be a painful process of determining what must be eliminated, in order to purchase school supplies. The average cost of school supplies for one child to return to school fully prepared averages $60, and of course we haven’t even touched new school clothes. Consider the dilemma of a parent confronted by the list of supplies each child must bring to school. Even kindergarteners must bring crayons, pencils, glue, construction and copy paper, glue sticks, etc; by 5th grade, to that list is added composition notebooks, pocket folders, pens and more, while high school students’ lists are even more extensive. Unlike cloths and uniforms, most of these items won’t last through an entire school year and will need replacement once or several times. Life’s challenges are many for children of single parents whose economic hardship has brought them to our program. The challenges of not being able to obtain school supplies should not be added to their shoulders. Perhaps, as they read this article, several community members, businesses, and donors will consider contributing to AMHH “Going Back to School Prepared” project, so that every student of a single mom in need is prepared for the first day of school. A (tax-deductible) gift of: · $20 will supply basic school supplies · $30 will purchase an appropriate backpack · $40 will provide school supplies with the backpack · $50 will provide a full set of basic school supplies · $60 will provide a full set of basic school supplies with the backpack. Help us to support our AMHH Kids by participating in our School Supply Drive. Get your friends, family and co-workers involved. Contact us for drop off locations or if you would like to partner with us as a drop off location.  Gifts of any size will make a difference and are greatly appreciated. To make a donation, send a check payable to
A Mom’s Helping Hand of SWFL (AMHH) 3440 Marinatown Lane #201 North Fort Myers, FL 33903 Gifts can also be made online, donate now For more information and to arrange for delivery of school supplies, call Kristen Schaufler, 239-895-5341. |
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