Be a Sponsor – Ride for a Child

Heroes Helping Heroes Inc.
Seeds of Hope – Heroes Helping Heroes is an established 501(c)(3) organization.
1010 Pine Forest Drive
Pinnacle NC 27043
EIN: 26-3408572

Dear supporter,

This year we are hosting the second annual “Ride for A Child” charity event. We are in hopes that this will be even bigger than last year. The proceeds will be going to support children who are within the foster care system. Click here to visit the Seeds of Hope webpage.

Heroes Helping Heroes provides mentoring, health and wellness solutions to at-risk, orphans, and foster children. The domestic division is based in North Carolina and consists of Seeds of Hope Camp, mentorship programs, and parent/guardian support.

Sponsorship packages
Gold- $1000.00 up – limited spots
• 4 event tickets – Pick up at event registration Table
• Name, logo, description, and consistent posting on all social media.
• Name/Logo on all printed media magazine ads, fliers and Event T-shirts
• Name and business description get mentioned on the day of event.
• Your Company banners will be on display at the event if provided.

Silver- $500.00-$999.00 – limited spots
• 2 event tickets – Pick up at event registration Table
• Name, logo, description, and consistent posting on social media accounts.
• Name/Logo on all printed media magazine ads, fliers and Event T-shirts
• Company banners will be on display at the event if provided.

Bronze- $100.00-$499.00 – limited spots
• Name, logo, description, and consistent posting on social media.
• We will also post on printed media anywhere space allows. Including T-shirts – First come First serve until space runs out.

To date, 959 unduplicated campers have enjoyed camp at no cost to their families.
Over 20 schools and churches in the community have provided facilities for our programs.
To date, over 580 individuals have volunteered their time serving the children in our care.
Each year, children who have attended camp (in that same year) are eligible for our Christmas Angel Program which pairs children with community sponsors who purchase presents and clothes for the child’s Christmas. An average of 80 children are served each year in this program.
At least once a quarter, our Seeds of Hope volunteers host free family focused events. All campers and their families are welcome and encouraged to participate in these programs that range from hands on food, crafts and a nature/farm animal experience event at Little Creek Farm, a yummy Breakfast with Santa, or a Valentine’s movie and dinner date night.
Our mentor/mentee program is available upon request, pairing campers with a caring mentor to provide loving encouragement, guidance, and a commitment to be a consistent presence in their lives.

We are hoping to raise money and continue to make a difference in every child’s life that goes into the foster care system.

We expect the promotions of this event to reach over 100,000 people Age 20 to 65. We will be using multiple social media pages along with Full Page ads in two motorcycle magazines Full Throttle and Behind Bars. Over 50 local businesses have committed to posting event fliers that will have a list of all sponsors posted beside it.

There will also be follow-up articles after the event in the magazines as well which will include a big thank you to all the sponsors. Event T-Shirts will be made that have all the major sponsors listed on the back and will be worn for years after the event.

We have had amazing feedback from our last event with numerous people telling us how excited they are to see this happening again.

To ensure that we reach our goal of $12,000, We are asking for your generous support this year with sponsorships or a donation of raffle prize(s) to be awarded at the event.

Prize donors will receive recognition for their generosity. This event will be a great marketing opportunity, and we look forward to your support. We really do think this year will be a huge success. We are expecting a very large turnout. Click here to visit the Seeds of Hope webpage.

We will contact you with details to submit marketing materials to promote your organization.
Thank you for your time, and for your generous support, we will be mailing out receipts with the 501c tax information along with thank you notes, within 7 days of receiving donations.

For other options to donate such as PayPal, Zelle, please contact:

Morgan A. Purvis
Seeds of Hope Heroes Helping Heroes
Cell: 336-409-4031
Email: [email protected]

Company, Family, or Individual sponsors are all welcome.
We want to advertise and promote you as much as we can to thank you for all of your support with the “Ride for A Child”

We need to receive Sponsor commitment funds as soon as possible.

• March 15th is the deadline to be included in the Full Throttle Magazine Ad and Post event Articles in Behind Barz Magazine
• March 15th is the deadline to be included on printed media such as Banners and Flyers.
• April 1st is the deadline to be included on T-shirts
• April 15th is the deadline to provide any promotional items you have that you want us to distribute the day of the event.

Click here to visit the Seeds of Hope webpage.

Background:
Heroes Helping Heroes (HHH) is a completely volunteer driven organization that serves children that are:
1) in the foster care system; 2) adopted; or 3) identified as “at-risk”. The Seeds of Hope summer camp program has been in operation since 2010. Programming expanded in 2012 to include yearlong development and mentoring opportunities. These programs are completely volunteer led and operate through the generosity of grant funding, corporate/business sponsorships, in- kind gifts, fundraisers, and private donations.

Mission Statement: To empower orphans, foster, adopted, and other vulnerable children by creating vital mentor relationships and providing meaningful life experiences and skills training that ultimately enhance their spiritual and emotional wellness and promote their joyful futures.
Goals:

Reduce isolation, create supportive social networks
Teach appropriate behaviors and stress responses
Develop relationship and interpersonal skills
Provide a platform of faith and inner peace
Develop awareness of self and individual worth
Promote health and wellness
To recruit and nurture youth and adult leaders from multiple communities, capitalizing on a diverse pool of talents and experiences to enrich and strengthen our programming
To create an environment in which youth leaders flourish
spiritually and emotionally
To foster a community of service minded leaders

HHH activities run throughout the year, are completely free of charge, and are 100% volunteer led. Our programming is intrinsically designed to promote health and wellness on a 3-prong level: mental, physical, and spiritual. To date, over 959 unduplicated at-risk, foster, and adopted children have attended Seeds of Hope programs. These programs are discussed in the following paragraphs.
During summer camp, children in K through sixth grade are allowed to select activity tracks tailored to provide entertainment, education, and skills training in art, sports, science, culinary arts, simple construction, spatial development, and fitness. Children in grades 1st – 6th also take a one-day field trip to a farm. For many, this experience is their first exposure to farming, animal care, nature hiking, or creek walking. While at the farm, every child is celebrated with a birthday party. The joy during these celebrations is overwhelmingly obvious, as some campers have never experienced a party held in their honor. Children in grades 7 and 8 are engaged in off campus activities with a focus on character development through service projects in and around our local community.
Family Focused Events: Corporate family inclusive events are held on a monthly to quarterly frequency with the intention of maintaining a sense of community amongst participants and staff, engaging parents and children in active play, social skill development, and relationship strengthening.
Mentor/Mentee Program: Caregivers have the option to request individual mentor pairings with their children as volunteers become available. Mentors, mentees, and parents meet to decide the frequency, duration, and location of visits as well as the nature of the mentor/mentee relationship. Contracts are signed by each party in the mentoring relationship defining the standards to be followed. The pairings are monitored to ensure the satisfaction of all parties.
To our knowledge, there are no other volunteer led organizations providing the same level of services free of charge to foster, adopted, and at-risk children in our area. SOH does collaborate with and receives referrals from a variety of partner agencies including DSS, the Guardian Ad Litem program, public and private school systems, mental health agencies, substance abuse recovery agencies, homeless shelters, food pantries, and domestic violence prevention programs. Resource agencies are encouraged to filter referrals to HHH throughout the year. HHH representatives also take an active role in community collaboratives who meet regularly to improve and optimize service delivery to vulnerable citizens.
HHH serves foster, adopted, and at-risk children. Core elements of Seeds of Hope programming have been developed to combat the perpetuation of the cycles of abuse, neglect, dependency, and poverty. Vulnerable and at-risk children often face complex issues which may consist of low family income, no employed parent/guardian in household, the absence of either/both parents from household, one or more foreign-born parent of recent immigration, may have at least one disability, retained in grade at least once, or they or their parents speak English less than “very well”. Mentoring programs are extremely rare to non-existent in the mostly rural communities we serve.
Common life cycles at-risk children often face include poor adult advocacy, lack of social support system, frequent transfers from school to school, unstable living conditions, inconsistent care, increased likelihood of learning disabilities, and inadequate life skill training. Generational patterns of of abuse, neglect, dependency often become generational and manifest in mental health issues, addictions/substance abuse, involvement with the criminal justice system, poor parenting skills/absentee parent, domestic violence, poverty, and lack of education.

We are helping to address these issues one child at a time.

Click here to visit the Seeds of Hope webpage.