Helping Hands of Princeton
Making a positive impact on local communities through outreach and support.
Mission
Helping Hands of Princeton is a non-profit organization founded by Arjun Kumar and registered in the state of New Jersey. Our mission is to make a positive impact on local communities through outreach and support. We aim to help with issues such as homelessness, food insecurity, and educational inequity in our community, with a special focus on children in underserved areas.
We organize grassroots initiatives like food drives, back-to-school drives, and drives for personal hygiene kits. We offer enrichment opportunities to children by organizing events like public speaking workshops and chess classes. We partner with local nonprofits, community organizations, and local businesses to further our initiatives. By building relationships through these different groups we hope to find a collective voice to bring about a positive impact in the community.
News and Events
Introducing Chess to Rural Schools In India
December 2022
We are going global with our endeavor to introduce chess to kids in underserved areas. This month we launched this program by providing chess kits and virtual training to a high school in rural Karnataka, India. We are partnering with high-school officials in Karnataka to expand the program to other rural schools.
Back to School Drive
August 2022
We held a Back To School Drive for HomeFront NJ this past week. We collected school supplies to send about 100 children back to school so that they are prepared to learn and have a positive experience on the first day of school and every day thereafter!
Food Drive for HomeFront NJ
July 2022
We again partnered with McCaffrey’s Food Market for our annual summer food drive for the benefit of HomeFront NJ. A big thank you to all who donated so generously.
Grant from America’s Promise Alliance
June 2022
We are pleased to be awarded the “Serve This Summer” grant from America’s Promise Alliance. We will be using this grant to start the Joy, Hopes and Dreams Chess Club at HomeFront NJ.
Personal Care Drive for Arm In Arm
May, 2022
This month we are proud to support Arm In Arm, a nonprofit organization based in Trenton, NJ. They help local families with resources such as food, financial support, housing, job search and job training. We organized a personal care drive and were able to collect thousands of personal hygiene items like soaps, shampoo, body wash, tooth brushes, toothpaste and bandaids. A big thank you to Dr. Russo of Montgomery Pediatric Dentistry, Dr. and Mrs. Kazmierski of Moorestown Orthodontics and Dr. Dinani of Dental Care of Princeton for generously donating oral hygiene products for the drive!
Book Fair at Barnes & Noble, Princeton
April 2nd, 2022
Children’s Library at Homefront
Our upcoming book fair will benefit the wonderful library at HomeFront.
Coming Soon – April 2nd, 2022
Book Fair at Barnes & Noble, Princeton
Helping Hands of Princeton will be holding a book fair at Barnes & Noble, Princeton for the benefit of Homefront’s children’s library. We will also be holding a story time from 11:30 AM till noon, and a debate workshop from 2 PM to 4 PM. Please drop by to support this event.
March 2022
Diaper Drive for Trenton Area Families
Did you know?
- The cost of diapers has risen by 12 percent since the start of the pandemic
- It costs around $80 a month or $ 1000 a year to provide diapers for one child!
- One out of three families struggle to pay for diapers
- Families in need cannot use food stamps on diapers
- Lack of diapers affect the physical and emotional health of babies and their parents ability to work
There’s a severe need for diapers in the community during the pandemic and due to inflation driving up the cost of essential supplies. We organized a diaper drive this month to help HomeFront’s diaper challenge. With the generous support of Wegman’s Princeton and other donors, we were able to collect 1,718 diapers which were donated to local parents in need.
November 2021
Thanksgiving Food Drive for Trenton Area Soup Kitchen
We collected more than 2,000 food items for a Thanksgiving meal for Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) in partnership with McCaffrey’s Food Market in Princeton, NJ.
TASK is a non-profit organization whose mission is to feed the hungry in the Trenton area and offer programs to encourage self-sufficiency and improve quality of life. TASK prepares and serves more than 10,000 nutritious and delicious meals each week.
A big thank you to all who contributed to this drive!
Food Drive for HomeFront
August 2021
We partnered with McCaffrey’s Food Market in Princeton, NJ to collect food donations for HomefrontNJ. Due to generous donations of Princeton area shoppers we were able to collect about 2,500 shelf stable food items.
September is hunger action month
Over 50,000 people or nearly 14 percent of the population in Mercer county, NJ are affected by food insecurity. We’ve partnered with McCaffrey’s food markets to help combat food insecurity in the community and will be holding a food drive on Sunday, August 29th 2021. All donations from the drive will go to HomeFront.
HomeFront is an organization in Central New Jersey with a mission to help families break the cycle of poverty. They support families in need, provide food and shelter, and help them become self sufficient by assisting them in obtaining skills and opportunities for work, affordable housing, and much more.
Helping Hands of Princeton 