Keep Handz on Hope Open!
Update:
To our 54 donors who supported us we raised a little over $2,000.
(below are those who have donated so far)
Tricia Shumway $25 Anonymous $25 Elyse Jurgen $10 Kareena Rios $25 Kendra Campbell $50 Julia Yoder $100 Debby Spence $50 Anonymous $50 Kim Clarke $25 Jasmine Bernardo $50 Dawn Miller $25 Anonymous $5 Anonymous $20 Barbara Snyder $50 Anonymous $300 Jo Davis $40 MacGregor Henrichsen $20 Anonymous $20 Barsha Thapa $20 Anonymous $20 Ann Wenger $50 Betty Turner $20 Stephanie Suchanic Vest $10 Matt Beres$25 Altheria Cruz $20 Janelle Esbenshade $25 Anonymous $50Anonymous $25 Denise Brown $35 Karen Foley $50mAnonymousmm$25 $20 Aaron Spangler $10 Bianca Cordova $15 Donna Hellmuth $20 Anonymous $20 Anonym Anonymous $15 Anonymous$50 Anonymous $20 Anonymous $10 Sami Barbara Wilso$20 Anonymous $10 Alyson Pursell $50 Allison Troy $80 Kristin Labezius $$25 Rebecca Fisher Bedenbaugh $10 Sandra Asher $25 Anonymous $300 Gloria Mast $25 Jen Eaton $10Ismail Smith-Wade-El $100 Karen Polite $100 stacy hogue $10 CATHERINEVINCENT SMITH $10
thank you – for your support
Handz On Hope
Provides a social enterprise fabric shop, sewing center and craft shop where adults and young people 5 years and older can gain creative learning experiences and skills based on sewing, tailoring, and entrepreneurial training, classes in art, design, handicraft, and circular economy, a new way to teach and to bring the true zero waste concept to our schools, camps, and communities.
In March our Property Manager let us know that our rent was being raised from $360 a month to $2,000 I told him that we cannot afford that right now could they write some of it off as a donation being that we are a non-profit it would be 100% tax deductible.
He said that they do not need a tax deductible and that we needed to be out by the end of April 2020, I did not feel comfortable bringing people in to pack up and help us move so paid the $360 rent because of the Carnivorous -19 and Lancaster being in the red phase and they extended us until July 10th, 2020. We started our Go Fund Me and Lancaster came out of the red phase on June 26 leaving us only 15 days to be out. Which did not give us enough time.
After receiving donations of a little over $2,000 I sent an email to my contact person with the Property Manager to let them know that we needed an extension because of the COVID-19 Crisis red phase we were in until June 26 giving us only 15 days to be out and I let them know that community members donated a little over $2,000 I told them that we will give it to them for an extension to August 31, 2020. They emailed me a letter back telling me to keep the $2,000 and to use it to move out by August 31 and they wrote that they wish us the best.
History:
We were blessed by Mort and Ruth Nierenburg who originally owned the building and sold it but stayed in the location where they had their fabric shop Nimble Thimble they signed a lease with the new owners for 50 years and paid $10 a month. When I went to their store asking for donations they asked me to tell them what I was doing and they told me that they was waiting for me they were ready to give up the store did I want it. I said what and Mort repeated himself as his wife smiled.
I agreed to take over the store and Mort talked with the owners and they wrote up a lease and agreed for us to sign a lease in 2017 for us to move in and pay $360 a month for three years. We had a grand opening in April 2017 to recognize the giving of the store to us by the Nierenburg’s but we moved in 2018 after painting some of the store. The Nierenburg’s wanted us to carry on their legacy by operating our non-profit organization Handz On Hope out of the store they had owned for 47 years. The idea of use was and is teaching women and teens the essential skills for a career as a Professional Sewer and/or Tailor and teaching up-cycling, and/or sewing, financial literacy and business skills at our Camp we call Youth Go Green for children ages
5 to 15. Campers learn business skills by selling some of the things that they make. Teens and young adults are hired through CareerLink for Workforce Development and they are trained to be summer camp counselors. Millersville University Business Majors come into our programs as service learners’ students and teach business classes to those who have completed any our trainings and want to start their own business. The University students come together and create a curriculum to teach the group they will train.
Mort and Ruth Nierenburg passed away in 2018, and our 3 year lease ended in April of this year and for us to stay in the location the realtors : Hardware Lofts LLC affiliates of Berkshire Hathaway Property Management told us that we could stay however they were raising the rent
to $2,000 per month ($24,000 a year).
This fundraiser will not only help us to relocate and continue to build our programs to
continue to build on the work we are doing.
We need to keep our Youth Go Green camp open! And to continue to provide job skills and career experience in sewing and tailoring for women and teens of Lancaster PA while providing a revenue stream for our non-profit to help offset a portion of the program expenses. Secondary: To promote creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse. All things community members asked us to do when they came to community meetings we had.
We need to be able to pay rent, reward our volunteers and pay our staff and feel comfortable doing that over the next year as we write grants and build up our customer base.
We need your help.
If we could get 40,000 people to donate $5 each we would raise our budget of $200,000 if we could get 20, 000 people to donate $10 each we could raise our budget of $200,000 if we get 10,000 to donate $20 we could raise our budget of $200,000. So please share with everyone you know I believe that we can do this lets make it happen!!!
We are having a liquidation sale to raise funds from the sale we will purchase new fabric. Please let everyone you know that sews about our sale.
Please find a way to continue to support us and the community by coming to the store and making a purchase, sharing this Gofundme with everyone that you know and/or making a donation we are going to need your donation to pay for rent and to rehire to prepare to re-start our training programs your donation we carry us until we raise money through our sells and/or get grants.
Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to us.
back up and with the money from the sale we will purchase new fabric.
Call Schirlyn at [phone redacted] if you want help pack up or schedule a visit to make a purchase out side of our scheduled open time. Nimble Thimble, 45 North Market Street, Lancaster, PA. HISTORIC DISTRICT AND LANCASTER CENTRAL MARKET
We will be open Monday to Saturday 10 am until 2 pm.
Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to us.
Schirlyn Sabur Kamara
Founder/Executive Director
Read below what the City has to say and to read what some of our community
members have written about us go to https://greatnonprofits.org/org/handz-on-hope
Bill Gates who sits on the board of great nonprofits put us on that site after I tweeted him and in 2019 we were recognized by great nonprofits as a great non-profit.
Lancaster City Indie Retail Week
Handz On Hope & NuLife at Nimble Thimble bring sustainability to Lancaster with
their mission of up-cycling fabric and other found materials, and they bring hope and help build community with their programs for children teens and adults.
Again make sure to visit the shop at 45 N Market street and make sustainability a part of your everyday life!
https://handzonhope.squarespace.com/store
Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Engagement
Over the next few days, we will be highlighting the recipients of the Love Your Block
COVID-19 Mini-Grants and sharing a bit about their projects!
Schirlyn Kamara, the founder of Handz On Hope, parent organization of the Nimble
Thimble Social Enterprise fabric shop, has been working with women from their
sewing programs to create masks for the homeless, the domestic violence shelters,
and the police since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the grant, they will be expanding their distribution into the southeast, focusing on areas such as Almanac
Avenue,
Duke Manor, Stevens Avenue, Franklin St., and Hillrise. They are taking photos of
both the sewers and the mask recipients, wanting to show how the community is
working together during this time.
To our 54 donors who supported us we raised a little over $2,000.
(below are those who have donated so far)
Tricia Shumway $25 Anonymous $25 Elyse Jurgen $10 Kareena Rios $25 Kendra Campbell $50 Julia Yoder $100 Debby Spence $50 Anonymous $50 Kim Clarke $25 Jasmine Bernardo $50 Dawn Miller $25 Anonymous $5 Anonymous $20 Barbara Snyder $50 Anonymous $300 Jo Davis $40 MacGregor Henrichsen $20 Anonymous $20 Barsha Thapa $20 Anonymous $20 Ann Wenger $50 Betty Turner $20 Stephanie Suchanic Vest $10 Matt Beres$25 Altheria Cruz $20 Janelle Esbenshade $25 Anonymous $50Anonymous $25 Denise Brown $35 Karen Foley $50mAnonymousmm$25 $20 Aaron Spangler $10 Bianca Cordova $15 Donna Hellmuth $20 Anonymous $20 Anonym Anonymous $15 Anonymous$50 Anonymous $20 Anonymous $10 Sami Barbara Wilso$20 Anonymous $10 Alyson Pursell $50 Allison Troy $80 Kristin Labezius $$25 Rebecca Fisher Bedenbaugh $10 Sandra Asher $25 Anonymous $300 Gloria Mast $25 Jen Eaton $10Ismail Smith-Wade-El $100 Karen Polite $100 stacy hogue $10 CATHERINEVINCENT SMITH $10
thank you – for your support
Handz On Hope
Provides a social enterprise fabric shop, sewing center and craft shop where adults and young people 5 years and older can gain creative learning experiences and skills based on sewing, tailoring, and entrepreneurial training, classes in art, design, handicraft, and circular economy, a new way to teach and to bring the true zero waste concept to our schools, camps, and communities.
In March our Property Manager let us know that our rent was being raised from $360 a month to $2,000 I told him that we cannot afford that right now could they write some of it off as a donation being that we are a non-profit it would be 100% tax deductible.
He said that they do not need a tax deductible and that we needed to be out by the end of April 2020, I did not feel comfortable bringing people in to pack up and help us move so paid the $360 rent because of the Carnivorous -19 and Lancaster being in the red phase and they extended us until July 10th, 2020. We started our Go Fund Me and Lancaster came out of the red phase on June 26 leaving us only 15 days to be out. Which did not give us enough time.
After receiving donations of a little over $2,000 I sent an email to my contact person with the Property Manager to let them know that we needed an extension because of the COVID-19 Crisis red phase we were in until June 26 giving us only 15 days to be out and I let them know that community members donated a little over $2,000 I told them that we will give it to them for an extension to August 31, 2020. They emailed me a letter back telling me to keep the $2,000 and to use it to move out by August 31 and they wrote that they wish us the best.
History:
We were blessed by Mort and Ruth Nierenburg who originally owned the building and sold it but stayed in the location where they had their fabric shop Nimble Thimble they signed a lease with the new owners for 50 years and paid $10 a month. When I went to their store asking for donations they asked me to tell them what I was doing and they told me that they was waiting for me they were ready to give up the store did I want it. I said what and Mort repeated himself as his wife smiled.
I agreed to take over the store and Mort talked with the owners and they wrote up a lease and agreed for us to sign a lease in 2017 for us to move in and pay $360 a month for three years. We had a grand opening in April 2017 to recognize the giving of the store to us by the Nierenburg’s but we moved in 2018 after painting some of the store. The Nierenburg’s wanted us to carry on their legacy by operating our non-profit organization Handz On Hope out of the store they had owned for 47 years. The idea of use was and is teaching women and teens the essential skills for a career as a Professional Sewer and/or Tailor and teaching up-cycling, and/or sewing, financial literacy and business skills at our Camp we call Youth Go Green for children ages
5 to 15. Campers learn business skills by selling some of the things that they make. Teens and young adults are hired through CareerLink for Workforce Development and they are trained to be summer camp counselors. Millersville University Business Majors come into our programs as service learners’ students and teach business classes to those who have completed any our trainings and want to start their own business. The University students come together and create a curriculum to teach the group they will train.
Mort and Ruth Nierenburg passed away in 2018, and our 3 year lease ended in April of this year and for us to stay in the location the realtors : Hardware Lofts LLC affiliates of Berkshire Hathaway Property Management told us that we could stay however they were raising the rent
to $2,000 per month ($24,000 a year).
This fundraiser will not only help us to relocate and continue to build our programs to
continue to build on the work we are doing.
We need to keep our Youth Go Green camp open! And to continue to provide job skills and career experience in sewing and tailoring for women and teens of Lancaster PA while providing a revenue stream for our non-profit to help offset a portion of the program expenses. Secondary: To promote creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse. All things community members asked us to do when they came to community meetings we had.
We need to be able to pay rent, reward our volunteers and pay our staff and feel comfortable doing that over the next year as we write grants and build up our customer base.
We need your help.
If we could get 40,000 people to donate $5 each we would raise our budget of $200,000 if we could get 20, 000 people to donate $10 each we could raise our budget of $200,000 if we get 10,000 to donate $20 we could raise our budget of $200,000. So please share with everyone you know I believe that we can do this lets make it happen!!!
We are having a liquidation sale to raise funds from the sale we will purchase new fabric. Please let everyone you know that sews about our sale.
Please find a way to continue to support us and the community by coming to the store and making a purchase, sharing this Gofundme with everyone that you know and/or making a donation we are going to need your donation to pay for rent and to rehire to prepare to re-start our training programs your donation we carry us until we raise money through our sells and/or get grants.
Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to us.
back up and with the money from the sale we will purchase new fabric.
Call Schirlyn at [phone redacted] if you want help pack up or schedule a visit to make a purchase out side of our scheduled open time. Nimble Thimble, 45 North Market Street, Lancaster, PA. HISTORIC DISTRICT AND LANCASTER CENTRAL MARKET
We will be open Monday to Saturday 10 am until 2 pm.
Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to us.
Schirlyn Sabur Kamara
Founder/Executive Director
Read below what the City has to say and to read what some of our community
members have written about us go to https://greatnonprofits.org/org/handz-on-hope
Bill Gates who sits on the board of great nonprofits put us on that site after I tweeted him and in 2019 we were recognized by great nonprofits as a great non-profit.
Lancaster City Indie Retail Week
Handz On Hope & NuLife at Nimble Thimble bring sustainability to Lancaster with
their mission of up-cycling fabric and other found materials, and they bring hope and help build community with their programs for children teens and adults.
Again make sure to visit the shop at 45 N Market street and make sustainability a part of your everyday life!
https://handzonhope.squarespace.com/store
Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Engagement
Over the next few days, we will be highlighting the recipients of the Love Your Block
COVID-19 Mini-Grants and sharing a bit about their projects!
Schirlyn Kamara, the founder of Handz On Hope, parent organization of the Nimble
Thimble Social Enterprise fabric shop, has been working with women from their
sewing programs to create masks for the homeless, the domestic violence shelters,
and the police since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the grant, they will be expanding their distribution into the southeast, focusing on areas such as Almanac
Avenue,
Duke Manor, Stevens Avenue, Franklin St., and Hillrise. They are taking photos of
both the sewers and the mask recipients, wanting to show how the community is
working together during this time.
Organizer
Schirlyn Kamara
Organizer
Lancaster, PA
Handz On Hope
Beneficiary