Support Our Mission
12 Days, $12K: A Christmas Miracle!
This season, as we rejoice in the Light of the World, we invite you to be a beacon of hope for women walking through a difficult season.
Our holiday wish, inspired by the 12 Days of Christmas, is to raise $12,000 between now and the end of 2025.
This isn’t just fundraising; it’s faith-raising. Every $1,000 milestone we reach provides a profound gift of services to a woman striving for change. Your donation becomes the hands and feet of Christ, offering her:
The Gift of Purpose: Career-building skills to find fulfilling work.
The Gift of Faith: Deep, intentional mentor training and discipleship.
The Gift of Joy: Funding for celebrations that mark her incredible progress through our 18-month program.
Your support is a direct investment in her transformation, helping her build a new life on a foundation of faith and strength.
Please help us make this Christmas miracle a reality. Show a woman in need the transformative power of God’s love.
Give a gift of hope today and bring His joy to her world!
Help Us Build a Debt-Free Future at Miracle Ridge!
The Vision: A Strong Home for Transformation
At Hand Up for Women, we believe every woman deserves a stable foundation for her new beginning. Our beautiful property, Miracle Ridge, is more than just an address—it is the dedicated home base for every class, every mentorship match, and every step of our transformative journey.
Right now, valuable funds—which could be expanding our life skills classes or equipping more women for careers—are being directed toward debt repayment.
We are launching this campaign to retire the debt on Miracle Ridge. By securing our physical foundation, we can guarantee that every dollar you give goes directly into the lives of the women we serve, expanding our mission like never before.
The Challenge: Freeing Funds for Focus
We know that consistency is the key to lasting change. When we eliminate the debt on Miracle Ridge, we free up critical funds immediately. This financial freedom translates directly into expanded opportunities for our sisters:
Career Readiness, Life Management, and Spiritual Development skills: We can increase the frequency and depth of our essential career readiness and financial literacy workshops.
Expanded Mentorship: We can recruit and train more mentors, ensuring every woman receives the dedicated, one-on-one guidance she needs.
Mission Expansion: Every dollar freed from the mortgage can go toward our core programs, reaching more women who are ready to build a new life of dignity and independence.
This isn’t just about paying bills—it’s about ensuring our mission has the financial breathing room to flourish and serve every woman who walks through our doors.
The Ask: Invest in a Debt-Free Legacy
We invite you to join us in this once-in-a-lifetime effort to pay down the debt on Miracle Ridge. Your investment ensures that our ministry is permanent and unburdened, allowing us to focus 100% on expanding our reach and deepening the impact of our programs.
Your donation is a vote of confidence in a debt-free future for Hand UP for Women, and a debt-free life for the women we serve.
Gifts from the Heart: Donate to our General Operating Fund!
We’re incredibly humbled to share that the vast majority of our funding—more than half, in fact!—comes directly from individual donors. These are generous supporters just like you, who truly believe in the life-changing work we do.
Your commitment makes an immense difference. Whether you choose to give a one-time gift, make a consistent monthly contribution, honor a loved one with a donation in their name or memory, or provide a full sponsorship to send a woman through our program, your support is invaluable. Every single contribution, no matter the size, directly fuels our mission and helps us empower more women to achieve their full potential. We wholeheartedly appreciate your dedication and generosity!
Shop at Kroger to Support Our Community Sisters!
Did you know your everyday grocery shopping at Kroger can be a wonderful help to the women we serve at A Hand Up For Women? It’s true! Through the Kroger Community Rewards program, a small percentage of your eligible purchases comes directly to us, and it costs you absolutely nothing extra. What a great way to give back!
This is such a simple, yet powerful, act of support. Just by linking your Kroger Plus Card to A Hand Up For Women online, every swipe at checkout helps us continue our mission of providing vital support, resources, and opportunities for women in our community. Imagine the impact we can make together, helping our sisters find strength, purpose, and a renewed sense of hope. It truly is a joyful way to contribute!
Are you ready to turn your regular shopping into a meaningful act of service and support?
- Visit https://www.kroger.com/account/communityrewards
- Sign in to your Kroger account (or create one if you don’t have one).
- Search for “A Hand Up For Women” or our organization number (BV713).
- Select us and click “Enroll.”
That’s all there is to it! You’ll be making a real difference with every trip to Kroger.
Other ways to help:
Mentoring
Be a source of encouragement, accountability, and networking for one of our women. Many times, this is the first agenda-free female friend they have ever had.
Every woman in our program is matched with a trained mentor to serve as her personal support, accountability and encouragement source. Mentors attend a one-day training on a Saturday then, once matched, they meet with their participant once a week. Written covenants are used to outline the boundaries of these relationships.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN TRAINING TO BECOME A MENTOR, PLEASE CONTACT KAREN MILLS AT ka***@*************en.org
Mentoring Application
Teaching
We need volunteer instructors in topics like Parenting, Women’s Health, and Personal Self-Defense for our expanded 18-month class session (as of Spring 2025).
Our volunteer instructors are the backbone of our program. We are occasionally looking for new and additional instructors in all subject areas. The night classes are on Tuesday and Thursday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. In the event that we begin daytime classes we will need instructors that are available during morning hours on Monday and Wednesday as well as new topics that would be helpful..
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Attend an Event
Join us for our gala in the winter, Angels and Axles Car Show in the spring, and two graduation celebrations a year.
Events
Providing Meals
Every Tuesday and Thursday, before class, groups and/or individuals provide a meal for the ladies. This is invaluable for the ladies and instructors that come straight from work.
This is also a wonderful time of getting to know each other and just decompressing after a busy day. Some meal providers sign up for the entire year’s classes and are scheduled for the same night each month. Others prefer to just provide one or two meals a year.
There are openings in the meal schedule for the 2024-2025 class year. Contact Amanda Roberts at ****@*************en.org“>am****@*************en.org for openings if you would like to provide a meal.
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Schedule a Speaker
Help spread the word! Have our Executive Director (usually with a graduate) speak to your church, business, or civic group about the organization and share a story.
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