Giving Hope and Help

Giving Hope and Help Inc launched in honor of the Founder and President, Jessica L. McClellan, Thanksgiving birthday. The Thanksgiving Birthday Give launched Giving Hope and Help and the 1st Annual Feminine Hygiene Product Drive to collect sanitary napkins and tampons. Over 5,000 products were collected to benefit the domestic violence shelter, Hope House, with two locations in Jackson County. To date, Giving Hope and Help supports over 25 domestic violence shelters and places of refuge. In 2015, Giving Hope and Help also launched the first annual feminine product drive in Texas. Throughout each year, Giving Hope and Help collects period products and packaged childrens and womens underwear through partnerships with businesses, organizations, companies, and the community to support the NO MENSTRUATOR WITHOUT PERIOD PRODUCTS MOVEMENT. This movement benefits domestic violence survivors and the shelters in which they live, natural disaster survivors, the homeless community, schools, women, and girls organizations and those in need of feminine care locally and across the globe. Giving Hope and Help has also made a global impact to end period poverty. Since inception, Giving Hope and Help has shipped feminine products to Cambodia, Nairobi-Kenya, Haiti, Mexico the Bahamas, Zambia, Sudan, Ghana, and Ukraine. Giving Hope and Help has supported over 350 girls with period products and girls underwear in Limuru, Kenya from 2017 to present day. To date, Giving Hope and Help's impact has benefited over 50,000 women and girls, locally and globally. Overall, Giving Hope and Help has distributed over 1,00,000 products since inception.

LOVE Bags 4 Cancer initiative was launched in February 2015 in honor of Giving Hope and Help's Founder and President, Jessica McClellan's late niece, who fought cancer for 6 years. This initiative uplifts hospitalized cancer patients annually in honor of Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. The patients receive gift bags that include a gift card, hand sanitizer, note pad, pen, Kleenex, word search book, other novelties, and an inspiration greeting card. Over six hundred cancer patients have been inspired and uplifted with the LOVE Bags 4 Cancer since February 2015. Giving Hope and Help partnered with Kansas City metro area hospitals in Kansas and Missouri to deliver the LOVE Bags 4 Cancer. In 2022, Giving Hope and Help distributed 25 bags for Valentine's Day, 25 bags for Mother's Day, 15 bags for Breast Cancer, and 50 bags to men. In 2022, 17 breast cancer survivors were honored at a brunch and were gifted LOVE Bags 4 Cancer.

The Education is Your Passport program provides educational and financial assistance for PreK through adult college students. The program's annual scholarship initiative, The Education is Your Passport Scholarship Program, benefits underserved high school seniors and non traditional, college bound students. In 2022, the program awarded 15 college scholarships which included 4 cash scholarships along with a backpack filled with supplies, a laptop, bed in a bag, and other supplies needed for college. 1 FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP was awarded to Metropolitan Community College, Penn Valley. Additionally, 10 other students received a backpack filled with supplies, a laptop, bed in a bag, and other supplies needed for college. In 2022, Giving Hope and Help also hosted the annual back to school event, Operation Backpack, in partnership with the City of Kansas City, MO. The event was a huge success and made an impact in the community. Approximately 2,600 backpacks with school supplies and access to online hot spots were distributed. Other distributions included 150 tablets and 6,270 period products.