Americans Helping Americans® is honored to award Marjy Stagmeier and her team at Star-C programs our Helper of the Month Award for May. Congratulations, Marjy! Marjy Stagmeier is a landlord with a good heart who started the charity Star-C Programs to help pay for the...
On Tuesday, June 1 the wheels of the Lunch Box Bus, operated by our partner, Of One Accord, will be rolling again on the winding rural roads of Hancock and Hawkins counties in East Tennessee delivering meals to hungry children living in isolated pockets of poverty....
More than two months ago, Beattyville, Kentucky, and surrounding Lee County where our partner Cumberland Mountain Outreach operates, suffered an historic, 100-year flood. Dozens of businesses in the small town’s downtown area were forced to close, and hundreds of...
At Americans Helping Americans®, we encourage all Americans to get vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus, as do our grassroots partners in Georgia, Tennessee, and West Virginia, as a way to protect ourselves and others from the deadly coronavirus on the way to a return to...
Last year at this time, our partners that operate summer day camps in Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia were unsure how, or even if, they were going to be able hold their programs for low-income children in distressed, rural Appalachia. And although they were not...
Americans Helping Americans® is honored to award Bobby Greenhill and his Greenhill Contracting team as the Helpers of the Month for April! Congratulations Bobby and Greenhill Contracting! After a devastating ice storm and a historical flood in Lee County, KY., Bobby...
On March 1, Americans Helping Americans® learned that the small town of Beattyville, Kentucky, and the surrounding Lee County where our partner Cumberland Mountain Outreach serves those most in need, suffered an historic and devastating flood. Thanks to our...
For years, one of Americans Helping Americans® main missions has been to help low-income homeowners, primarily the elderly and disabled, with critical repairs to their homes to fix leaking roofs, sagging floors and more, as well as to provide handicap ramps to enable...
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Americans Helping Americans® Hero of the Month is Raymond Tavita, who, after his wheelchair was stolen and his community stepped up to help him, has started his own nonprofit organization for wheelchair-bound individuals as a way to that kindness forward....
With the emergency flood relief grant funding received from Americans Helping Americans®, dozens of small businesses in downtown Beattyville, Kentucky which have been shuttered due to a once-in-a-lifetime flood earlier this month, they are now seeing a light at the...