Compassionate grief support, education, and community service for children and families navigating loss.
Healing through service and connection in your local community.
Students walk into school carrying more than a backpack.
Find programming for your school or camp to help them learn how to lighten the load with GRIT™.
Developed by a team of experts in mental health, education, and healthcare, the GRIT™ family of programs are designed specifically for students in middle and high school.
GRIT™ helps students gain the language, tools, and peer support needed to process loss in healthy, constructive ways.
Learn more below.
Grief can make the world feel smaller. Community makes it bigger again.
Our flagship therapeutic art program brings people together across schools, neighborhoods, and faith communities to support grievers everywhere, while finding hope for themselves.
Reflections, resources, and stories to support healing and resilience.
This week, our director, Judy Pedersen, was asked a question that stops Executive Directors every time: "How do you find funding to keep your charity going?"
She wasn`t trying to be funny when she quoted the name of one of our youth programs and said, "Like all the other directors out there, we raise money by sheer grit!"
By now, you`re all smiling and nodding as you read this. To all of you reading this, thank you for all you do to make life better for people who struggle – through your work, with your families, and through the causes you support.
2026 marks Hearts of Hope’s 25th year of "creating hope" for people through grief support, education, and community service.
On a day-to-day basis, we don`t look back often. But when we do, it is with wonder. 25 years doesn`t happen because one person made it happen.
Hearts of Hope Foundation is 100% volunteer-based, and it is impossible to count how many people have raised their hands and said, "Choose me."
That`s how we have achieved 25 years.
To celebrate 25 years, our very first volunteer, Kathie Grassi, created a beautiful work of art. We have reproduced it and crafted gorgeous commemorative hearts from it. It’s yours as a thank-you gift for every $25 you give.
If you can, please consider helping us further our mission of hope.
Overall, please check out what we do, celebrate 25 years with us, and let us serve you and your families so no one ever must grieve alone.
ourheartsofhope.org
#HeartsOfHope #GriefSupport #VolunteerDriven #CommunityService #HopeInGrief #25YearsOfHope #HealingTogether
Hope made by little hands!
New York Life is one of our longest-running partnerships. This year, children of New York Life’s White Plains Office employees participated in Take Your Children to Work Day by sharing their creativity and compassion, decorating ceramic hearts that will be distributed to bereaved children attending grief camps.
A note from NYL:
"Our hope is that each heart serves as a small reminder that they are seen, supported, and never alone."
#BereavementSupport #NewYorkLife #TakeYourChildToWorkDay #GriefSupport #ChildrenHelpingChildren #HeartsofHope
Celebrating Freedom Day, a historical moment of hope for America. Happy Juneteenth!
#Juneteenth #FreedomDay #CelebrateFreedom #BlackHistory #HeartsofHope
We`re giving our hearts away this summer!
Do you have a group or organization that could use a reminder of hope? We can help you out! We are looking for the perfect places for our completed hearts to find their homes. Contact us today on social media or at https://ourheartsofhope.org/contact-us.
#HeartsofHope #FreeHearts #nonprofit #spreadhope
Why do we need Pride Month? Why is it even called "Pride"? To answer that, we first need to understand shame and the effects it has on our mental health and wellbeing, and what we can do to cope. Read more on our blog today, link in bio.
#HeartsofHope #SpreadHope #PrideMonth #LGBTQCommunity #MentalHealthAwareness #LGBTQSupport #CommunitySupport #SelfAcceptance
Congratulations to our Hope Scholar student, Anisha Mulinti!!
Pictured with Hearts of Hope Board Member Terry Becker at her senior award ceremony. To earn her Hope Scholar Award, Anisha took the initiative and organized, hosted, and moderated multiple Paint with a Purpose events at her school. Her hard work and caring heart has created so much hope in the world! We know there are incredible things in her future. Thank you Anisha, and well done!
#heartsofhope #nonprofit #hopescholar2026
FREE HEARTS 2026!
Our Pennsylvania volunteers have been hard at work prepping hearts - we just need to know where to send them! If you have a cause or group that could use a dose of hope, please don’t hesitate to reach out via social media or our website.
#heartsofhope #paintwithapurpose #freehearts2026 #nonprofitorganization #griefawareness
Happy Pride Month to all who celebrate! We spread hope to EVERYONE who needs a reminder that they’re not alone - and we do it one heart at a time.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#heartsofhope #happypride #griefsupport
