Humanitarian Support Foundation employees participated in “Giving up a lunch hour” with Second Helpings by picking up two car loads of produce and other food items donated by a local grocery store and delivering to a Shelter for battered women and children. They created “Giving up a lunch hour” as a way to give back to the community. Second Helpings is an action volunteer program that collects and delivers food each week to feed the hungry programs throughout metro Atlanta. Everyone here at Humanitarian Support Foundation are dedicated to helping those in need rebuild their lives and reach their full potential.

Humanitarian Support Foundation partners with United Way of Henry County and Martinsville to participate in United Way’s annual Day of Caring/Day of Reading event.  This community-wide reading project highlights the importance of reading to children.  It is a simple, easy and yet highly impactful service for the children in our area. Volunteers from around the community, including Humanitarian Support Foundation employees visited local daycares, churches, and medical centers to read to children to help improve childhood development and academic achievements of children.  After the volunteers read to the children, each child was given an age appropriate book from United Way to take home.

On June 6-8 2014, Humanitarian Support Foundation volunteered to assist in the 12^th Annual Shriners Celebrity Golf Classic. As a proud sponsor of Ace & TJ’s Grin Kids, Humanitarian Support Foundation was asked to assist with other sponsors and event coordinators to assist those celebrities and participants during the 3 day event.

Since the tournament’s inception, it has raised almost $4,000,000.00 in support of charity.

Shriners Hospitals for Children provide the highest quality care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries and other special healthcare needs within a compassionate, family-centered and collaborative care environment.

Plus conduct research to discover new knowledge that improves the quality of care and quality of life of children and families.

This mission is carried out without regard to race, color, creed, sex or sect, disability, national origin or ability of a patient or family to pay.

Ace & TJ’s Grin Kids is a non-profit 501(c) 3 charity, created by morning show personalities Ace & TJ in Charlotte, North Carolina in January of 2000. The name of the organization comes from Ace & TJ’s motto on their morning show, “You Grin, You’re In!”

Ace & TJ’s Grin Kids is designed to enhance the lives of children in our listening areas who are terminally ill and chronically handicapped, ages five through twelve, by taking them to  Disneyworld with their entire family.

Each year, Ace & TJ’s Grin Kids charters a 737 to take these children, with their sibling, parents, and health care workers to Disneyworld in Florida. Because of their special needs and financial  strain, this is an experience that many of these children and families would not be able to know without the help of Ace & TJ’s Grin Kids.

Grin Kids is funded exclusively by listener donations. Some are large, some are small, but without the listeners, the “Radio Family” participating in various fundraising events, the Grin Kids trip would not be possible year to year.

Humanitarian Support Foundation supported the 6^th annual Rooster Walk Music and Arts Festival again this year with donations and volunteering. The Festival is a yearly charity fundraiser at Blue Mountain Festival Grounds, just outside of Martinsville, VA.  The event was created in memory of two Martinsville natives and is dedicated to promoting music, arts and education in the area.  A donation was given to support “Left Hip Pocket,” one of the bands that played at the festival. Humanitarian Support Foundation also gave an additional donation to the Martinsville Band Program, in memory of Todd Eure, a former employee of Humanitarian Support Foundation.  The organization matched our gift for greater impact for the band program that provides scholarships for high school students for band instruments.

Humanitarian Support Foundation employees recently hosted a themed party, provided crafts and activities in the Fun Factory area for patients at  Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Atlanta.  Our team also sponsored and served dinner for the patients and their families. It was awesome to see the parents able to sit down and relax knowing their children were nearby having fun.

Most of the sports equipment was well used so Humanitarian Support Foundation ordered new basketballs, soccer balls, footballs, nerf footballs, golf balls and golf clubs for the enclosed play area.

Myron Smith (Marc Smith’s Father) introduced Humanitarian Support Foundation employees to Second Helpings (a 501 c (3) non- profit organization during a Lunch and Learn. The program’s mission is to rescue and distribute nutritious food from various sources of food that would otherwise go to waste. SHA delivers food donations seven days each week to feed the hungry programs, food pantries, and shelters in downtown Atlanta and the northern suburbs. Since its inception in Sept 2004, SHA has rescued and distributed over 3,100,000 pounds of food and other items.  

Humanitarian Support Foundation employees were inspired with Second Helpings and  created “Giving up a lunch hour”.  The group will work with Marc Smith and SHA and utilize their lunch hour to pick up and deliver food to a food pantry or shelter.

The Humanitarian Support Foundation , on behalf of the Northside Youth Organization and FCA.org, recently donated transportation services for collected baseball equipment destined for the Dominican Republic as part of a continuing mission sponsored by the FCA.

Donated uniforms, hats, bats, balls, gloves, cleats, and other items were collected by Northside Youth Organization and sent to Humanitarian Support Foundation warehouse for packing and transport to the FCA representative in the Dominican Republic.

Photos of these children wearing their recently arrived equipment may be our first look at a future Hall of Famer! Another Sammy Sosa or Alfonso Soriano in the bunch?

December 20, 2013

During this holiday season, Humanitarian Support Foundation teamed up with the Salvation Army to visit a local assisted living facility. Christmas carols were led by volunteers while the residents of Harmony Hall Assisted Living sang along.  The fun-filled festive day was full of laughing, smiling, and concentrating on the meaning of Christmas.  Aside from the joyous spirit of spending time with one-another, the Harmony Hall residents also received gifts in the form of: slippers, robes, shirts, sweaters, toboggan, gloves, and a gift basket. Humanitarian Support Foundation and the Salvation Army volunteers worked hard to spread joy and compassion with Harmony Hall during the 2013 holiday season.

The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree Event is a long-standing tradition that offers individuals & families the opportunity to “adopt” (in spirit) a child for Christmas.  This opportunity gives children the chance to experience a Christmas joy that they would otherwise not encounter.  Families and Corporations reach out to sign up with their local Salvation Army to provide children with age appropriate gifts. Humanitarian Support Foundation has developed a corporate partnership with the Salvation Army.  This year Humanitarian Support Foundation supported the event with both monetary means and man-power for shopping.  Our children are the future of this country and local economies, and Humanitarian Support Foundation is proud to support the smiles of our future.

Learn more about the sponsorship at http://virginiasalvationarmy.org/Martinsville/angel-tree-sponsor/

December 6^th, 2013-Humanitarian Support Foundation visits the Hairston Home for Adults with the local Salvation Army

Earlier this month, Humanitarian Support Foundation partnered with our local Salvation Army and visited the Hairston Home for Adults, a local assisted living facility for adults. Humanitarian Support Foundation volunteers, alongside the Salvation Army representatives, performed Christmas carols with the residents.  Other events with a pastor leading in prayer and scripture. The volunteers then passed out gift boxes with toiletry items to each resident, wishing them a “Merry Christmas.”