We Have Reached 4,800 Hats!

Every week we get closer to our April goal of 5,000 winter hats. We are now less than 200 hats away from that goal and we are very excited! Join us on Facebook and see what we are doing to make the world a better place.

Photo Journal

Scarves and hats donated to us

Hats we made

Yarn donated to us!

Yarn donated to us!

1,000 hats going to Appalachia in KY

1,000 hats going to Appalachia in KY

1,000 hats going to Appalachia in KY

1,000 hats going to Appalachia in KY

1,000 hats going to Appalachia in KY

Yarn donation

1,000 hats going to Appalachia in KY 

An Epic Journey

Well, we have been very busy since early January making and collecting winter hats for the less fortunate. Presently, we are just over 1,500 fans on our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/EmilysHatsForHopeInitiative We have had great success reaching out to people for help through social media. People from as far away as England and Iceland have sent us hats! 

On July 27th Emily was interviewed on WNBC in NYC regarding Emily's Hats For Hope Initiative. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Emilys-Hats-For-Hope/164095756 Since January, Emily has made and collected 2,000 winter hats! She has donated 600 to several NJ based outreach organizations, including soup kitchens in Morristown & Dover, the Father English Community Center in Paterson, the InterFaith Food Pantry in Morris Plains, & Trinity Church in Asbury Park. Another 200 hats were brought to Elmira, NY where they will be distributed in that area. This Dec. 1,000 hats will be distributed to community centers in the Appalachia region in KY, one of our nation’s most impoverished areas. 200 hats remain in storage and will be distributed this fall to the homeless and working poor in NJ.

Several members of our Facebook group have started their own Chapters of Emily's Hats For Hope Initiative! We have Chapters in PA, WA, KY, ME, IA and OK. VT and TX might be just around the corner as well. Emily's long term goal is to have a Chapter in every state.

Emily has received letters of recognition from NJ Assemblyman Anthony M. Bucco & NJ Governor Chris Christie.

We also launched a new website this past month: www.EmilysHatsForHopeInitiative.org

Emily’s Hats For Hope Initiative
PO Box 2374
Morristown, NJ 07962-2374

Email: hats4hopeinitiative@yahoo.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/EmilysHatsForHopeInitiative
Website: www.EmilysHatsForHopeInitiative.org
Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/groups/emilys-hats-for-hope-initiative

Emily's letter from the Governor of NJ

Emily received a letter from NJ Governor Chris Christie congratulating her on her hat initiative!

We Have Reached 500 Hats!

We recently reached our halfway mark of 500 hats. We have only until this December to reach 1,000 hats. We hope you join us in our efforts. Please check us out on Facebook.

We have a brand new mailing address!




PO Box 2374, Morristown, NJ 07962-2374. This address is NEW as


of March 2012. Our old PO Box for Whitehouse STILL works but we 


would like all future mail to go to the Morristown PO Box. Thank 


you!

3 child size hats we made last night. 

Here is a child size hat I am in the middle of making on a loom.