Handbags That Help is a women's giving circle focused on improving lives in Hancock County through significant grants for charitable projects and programs, aiming to increase community philanthropy. Since 2008, they have granted over $600,000 towards building strong families in the area.
This grant program focuses on meeting community literacy needs, welcoming proposals for both existing and new projects that tackle literacy issues or opportunities. Key principles of the grant include: suggesting practical approaches to literacy challenges, promoting cooperation among agencies to avoid service duplication, generating community support from both professionals and volunteers, demonstrating an organization's capacity for securing realistic funding, enhancing an agency's effectiveness or stability, and prioritizing both prevention and remediation of literacy issues. Applicants are encouraged to contact the program director for discussion and technical assistance before submitting their proposals.