Join us Friday April 19th at 7pm at historic Longwood gardens for Chester counties premiere fund raising event. Fabulous food and wine, beautiful music and an exciting live auction will make for a very special evening. Auction items include exciting vacations, golf outings, a 50/50 raffle, catered dinners in your home by a world renowned chef…and …
Family Company Does Whatever it Takes A rush order for Solar LED’s Adventure Light brought company founder and President Tom Chorman, along with his wife Eileen and kids Brian and Megan, onto the production line at Handi-Crafters. The Adventure Lights are destined for Natural Grocers a Colorado based grocery retailer with 54 stores in the …
A Black & White Affair Presented by: 230 friends and supporters joined us at LongwoodGardenson April 13th to benefit individuals with disabilities in our community. Guests enjoyed a setting of unparalleled beauty, live jazz music, exciting auction items and the raffling of a 1986 classic Mercedes 560 convertible. We experienced record turnout, netting $130,000, which …
Partnership with Jewlery Designer Expands Handi-Crafters continues to expand its work with vintage jewelry designer Lenora Dame. In January we packaged about 5,000 components destined for Anthropologie stores. This included a new task – assembling barrettes – which workers enthusiastically referred to as “making bling bling.”
This week CNN ran a story featuring Lizbeth Lane Gourmet Cuisine and their work with Handi-Crafters. The story sparked nationwide interest in both Lizbeth Lane’s Simmer Sauces and the efforts of Handi-Crafters. Orders for Simmer Sauces spiked and Mike Dernoga and Rid Francisco, creators of the sauces, came in to join the production line and …
On Thursday September 22nd, 2011 Handi-Crafters supporters, clients, and friends gathered together to celebrate our 50th anniversary. In this moving ceremony a group of the original founders of Handi-Crafters were present to be honored for their vision including, Dick and Monnie Zobel, Warren Strawsnyder, Art Burt, Skip Huston, Rose Marie Andrien (one of original 7 …
Krista Hipp brings a smile to work with her everyday. Excited to meet the challenges that await, the friends she will see and the fun she will have. Krista holds two jobs. She works at Handi-Crafters three days a week and Wendy’s two days. She began working at Wendy’s ten years ago and is the longest …
Handi-Crafters was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from the PA Department of Public Welfare to purchase a van, exercise equipment, and group outings for our Older Adult Daily Living Center. The OADLC, our unique retirement program, has 35 participants who are realizing the rewards of a lifetime of work. In the program, individuals are engaging …
Earlier this Spring Handi-Crafters was one of 12 greater Philadelphia area organizations awarded a grant from the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s Capital and Capacity for Economic Recovery program. The program, created with stimulus funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is designed to improve job training services and other economic development support for …
Handi-Crafters has taken an exciting strategic step to enhance our mission of empowering people with disabilities to live independent, productive and fulfilling lives. On July 1st Residential Living Options, a non-profit providing independent housing counseling, education and advocacy for people with disabilities, merged into Handi-Crafters under a new name Independent Living Solutions. There is a …