I forgot to post a Feel Good Friday at Helping Hands at First English yesterday, so let’s feel good today. (About something. Anything. Please…) These are the bags of groceries waiting to go out today, prepped with loving hands and hearts by our incredible volunteers. We fed 363 people today. But we also gave out … [Read more…]
It’s Feel Good Friday once again at Helping Hands at First English! (Is it just me or is time speeding up…?😳😳😳) Just a little reminder that, in addition to: Feeding our neighbors (40 tons of food just from the GFCFB alone this year)… Connecting neighbors to other resources and helping agencies (Looking at you, amazing … [Read more…]
It’s Feel Good Friday at Helping Hands at First English. I want to talk to you about HOPE. Due to our current administration’s decision to shut down SNAP, we served 571 guests last weekend. That’s almost 100 more than our prior record, set during the pandemic. Here’s where the hope comes in…This little grass-roots pantry … [Read more…]
Saturday was a record-breaking day at Helping Hands at First English. We served 571 neighbors, breaking our last record from the Covid days by about 100. When someone who is in need comes to Helping Hands, we feed them. We do not turn them away. I was shocked this week when another feeding organization in … [Read more…]
Happy Halloween and Feel Good Friday at Helping Hands at First English. 🎃 There has definitely been a pall cast on this day of celebration, as we face down the barrel of hunger as SNAP is discontinued. Through our work at Helping Hands, we know so many of our neighbors who will be impacted by … [Read more…]
After he’d been evicted, he’d gotten mugged the first two nights he was on the street. All of his paperwork was stolen and he had no resources to navigate the difficult system of finding a new and affordable place to live. Helping Hands at First English helped to keep him in a hotel so no … [Read more…]
Feel Good Friday comes with a special chance to double your good work and intentions! Helping Hands at First English is again participating in the annual Town Pump matching funds campaign! Your money will be DOUBLED if you donate through November! That’s DOUBLE the food we can buy for our neighbors! DOUBLE the Thanksgiving, Christmas, … [Read more…]
It’s another Feel Good Friday at Helping Hands at First English! We’re getting ready for our end of the month cookout tomorrow! At the end of the month (when the money runs out for a lot of our neighbors) we have a big cookout at Helping Hands while we give out grocery boxes. Hot dogs … [Read more…]
For this Feel Good Friday at Helping Hands at First English, we thought we’d share Sarah singing the prayer of St. Francis. We need all the instruments of peace we can get. Stand up. Help. Make a difference for a family—right here—in Great Falls, Montana. Help us make sure the kids have healthy meals during … [Read more…]
For Feel Good Friday at Helping Hands at First English, we are sharing some words from the incredible Eleanor Roosevelt—longest serving First Lady and one of the most influential social justice warriors of her time. “A society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions … [Read more…]
