Contract Packaging Solutions – Kitting, Co-Pack, Assembly Services

Empowering Individuals Since 1961

Handi-Crafters

Handi-Crafters provides people with various disabilities vocational job training, socialization, and the opportunity for competitive employment.

Businesses

Handi-Crafters provides high-quality, fast-turnaround services to meet your labor-intensive packaging and assembly needs. For over 60 years, our workers have been helping corporations nationwide, and especially Chester County and the greater Philadelphia area. At Handi-Crafters, we complete your project using a socially responsible workforce.

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Participants

Learn more about our program opportunities. Our services present opportunities for meaningful employment, vocational skill development, and daily fulfillment. Handi-Crafters provides a safe, caring environment that helps workers enhance their skills and confidence.

Programs

Support Handi-Crafters

Individuals and corporations support Handi-Crafters in a variety of ways, from providing financial donations, and volunteering, as well as sponsoring events. Your support empowers individuals with barriers to employment.

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Call us to outsource your company's packaging needs

Local corporations have been outsourcing packaging, assembly and production work to Handi-Crafters since 1961. Handi-Crafters runs one of the largest employment and disability-focused nonprofit support service programs in the greater Philadelphia area.

Handi-Crafters offers custom solutions to companies needing to outsource manual intensive handwork. Choosing socially-responsible outsourcing with Handi-Crafters provides many advantages: controls capital costs, increases efficiency, and reduces labor costs and more.

Projects May Include:

Manual intensive handwork for jobs of all sizes
Building and filling point of purchase displays
Medical component assembling, kitting, and packaging
Repacking of palletized cases of single flavor drink cans such as beers, teas, custom health drinks, and carbonated water into smaller variety packs
Cosmetic kitting and packaging
Preparation for mailing, collating, and labeling marketing pieces
Box assembling, and packaging for distribution
Weighing, and packing semi-solid materials
Collating, packaging, and boxing custom printed tee shirts
Shrink wrapping and palletizing products
Component Procurement

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65 Years of Impact. A Future Full of Possibilities.

Handi-Crafters creates opportunities, builds connections, and helps individuals with disabilities lead meaningful and fulfilling lives. This special anniversary video celebrates the people, partnerships, and stories that have shaped our journey while looking ahead to the possibilities of the next 65 years.

News

Former QVC On-Air Host Dan Hughes Joins Handi-Crafters as Sales and Business Development Representative

Thorndale, PA — Handi-Crafters Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering adults with disabilities through vocational training and employment opportunities, is pleased to announce that Dan Hughes has joined its team as Sales and Business Development Representative. In this role, Hughes will help expand regional and national business partnerships that support meaningful employment opportunities for […]

Handi-Crafters received check from Andrew Bentley

Handi-Crafters Receives Largest Individual Gift in a Decade

Handi-Crafters Inc. is proud to announce the receipt of a $100,000 leadership gift from longtime supporter Andrew Bentley—the largest individual donation the organization has received in the past decade The gift will directly support Handi-Crafters’ mission to provide vocational training, competitive integrated employment, community engagement, and essential support services for more than 250 adults with disabilities annually across Chester County. “This extraordinary gift is a powerful affirmation of the dignity, potential, and value of the individuals we serve,” said Executive Director April Ennis-Pierson.

Participate at Handi-Crafters

Handi-Crafters offers a continuum of services. We work alongside hundreds of individuals with various intellectual, developmental, or physical disabilities, mental health diagnoses, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, veterans, and people on the autism spectrum. We help individuals break down the barriers to employment while expanding their capabilities, successes, and personal satisfaction in achieving their employment goals.

Programs Include

Vocational Evaluation
Skill Development Center
1:1 Case Management
Community Participation Programs
Competitive Integrated Employment
After Work Enrichment
Adult Daily Living Center

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Listen to the Executive Director of Handi-Crafters, April Ennis-Pierson, to learn more about the organization and its innovative approach to its work.

Published Aug 16, 2024, via Start Local

Support Handi-Crafters

Handi-Crafters is a vital place in our community, and we are grateful for the support which has helped our organization grow and our participants prosper since 1961.