Birdies for Char­ity is a fun way to con­tribute to your favorite char­ity while fol­low­ing the PGA TOUR pros as they play in The Heritage.

Each par­tic­i­pat­ing char­ity will receive every penny of the dona­tions of this pro­gram, plus the Her­itage Clas­sic Foun­da­tion will con­tribute an addi­tional $100,000 among the par­tic­i­pat­ing charities.

Each orga­ni­za­tion asks their sup­port­ers to pledge a small amount for each birdie made dur­ing The Her­itage. In 2011, 1,401 birdies were made by the PGA TOUR golfers. The Birdies pro­gram cel­e­brated its 12^th year in 2011 by dis­trib­ut­ing $391,944 to local non-profits, push­ing the total to around $3.2 mil­lion since it began 2000.

If you would like to make your pledge directly to the Birdies for Char­ity Web­site, then go here.

Or, you can down­load our pledge form, com­plete it, and send it to Birdies for Charity.

Either way, you can enjoy more of your game, and Bluffton Self Help wins!

Thanks for your support.

Bluffton Self Help and WSAV TV. invites you to share the joy of the upcom­ing hol­i­day sea­son by par­tic­i­pat­ing in our Hol­i­day for HOPE Toy Drive.

Between now and Decem­ber 18, we are col­lect­ing NEW, UNWRAPPED TOYS at sev­eral loca­tions through­out Hamp­ton, Beau­fort and Jas­par coun­ties. This year, because we are part­ner­ing with WSAV, our reach is much wider and our need much greater.  Fam­i­lies from these coun­ties will be eli­gi­ble for inclu­sion in the toy drive. Con­tinue Reading…

Bluffton Self Help has a NEW LOCATION and is pro­vid­ing ser­vices to more peo­ple than ever. The mis­sion of Bluffton Self Help is to help indi­vid­u­als in the greater Bluffton area who are in need of short-term assis­tance. With the help of our Vol­un­teers, we are able to keep our costs low, enabling us to con­tribute more to those in need. As a mat­ter of fact, 91.5% of our rev­enue is spent on the peo­ple we help!

To con­tinue our mis­sion we des­per­ately need more volunteers.

Vol­un­teers Have Fun and Flexibility

The ben­e­fits include great vol­un­teers to work with, a clean and newer facil­ity to work in and an oppor­tu­nity to really help your neigh­bors in need. Jobs include answer­ing phones, stock­ing food shelves, cloth­ing prep (fold­ing and hang­ing) and dis­play (plac­ing cloth­ing on shelves and racks), recep­tion­ist, receiv­ing (unload­ing food and cloth­ing dona­tions), inter­preters (Span­ish), spe­cial events and com­puter inputting.

Con­tact Information:

There are sev­eral ways you can get started. Con­tact our Vol­un­teer Coör­di­na­tor, Nancy Meyer, by email or drop by 39 Sheri­dan Park Cir­cle to have a look around and pick up a vol­un­teer appli­ca­tion. Or, save your­self some time and down­load the vol­un­teer appli­ca­tion here, and bring it with you when you come!

More Ways to Help!

Make 2012 the year your New Year’s Res­o­lu­tion is to Pay it For­ward with Bluffton Self Help. Hol­i­day help is also needed, so why wait! Bluffton Self Help’s phone num­ber is 843−757−8000. To learn more visit blufftonselfhelp.org on the web.If you are inter­ested in Bluffton Self Help, we are inter­ested in you! Put your gifts and tal­ents to work today in Bluffton’s most needed non-profit char­i­ta­ble organization.

If you are inter­ested in learn­ing more about how you can sup­port our Vol­un­teer efforts at Bluffton Self Help, con­tact us, stop by our office, or call us at 843−757−8000.

Hey there, Bluffton!  BSH is cur­rently in need of canned goods and non-perishable food items!  Over 200 of your neigh­bors received assis­tance with food last week — the need for help with food is so appar­ent this cold win­ter sea­son!  Please con­sider pur­chas­ing a few extra items on your next trip to the store!  BSH is always in need of CANNED SOUPS, CANNED VEGETABLES, RICE, PASTA, and CANNED MEATS, such as TUNA, CHICKEN, and SPAM.  It doesn’t take much to help a neigh­bor!  Thanks so much for caring!

The Island Packet

The Christ­mas spirit is alive in the Lowcountry.

And that’s good news, con­sid­er­ing needs also are high, accord­ing to two non­profit orga­ni­za­tions sup­ported by area churches.

Bluffton Self Help expects to receive close to 1,000 requests from needy chil­dren for toys. So far half have been adopted by the com­mu­nity. But Jenny Haney, Bluffton Self Help exec­u­tive direc­tor, has faith the spirit will prevail.

“You kind of get caught up in all of the gen­eros­ity of all the peo­ple,” Haney said. “It is very rewarding.”

Mon­day is the final day for peo­ple to adopt chil­dren for Christ­mas through Self Help, which coor­di­nates the deliv­ery of toys to the fam­i­lies on Fri­day. Con­tinue Reading…

The Island Packet

Coat drive founders Robyn and Larry Mark have begun accept­ing jack­ets, coats and thick sweaters for the 20^th annual Fur­ni­ture Ware­house Design Gallery Coat Drive. Over the past 19 years, the coat drive has helped col­lect and dis­trib­ute more than 33,000 coats to Low­coun­try fam­i­lies. Last year, the drive col­lected 3,166 gen­tly used out­er­wear items. This year the goal is 3,483 items.

The drive runs through Dec. 31. Dona­tions can be dropped off at Fur­ni­ture Ware­house Design Gallery at 745 Robert Smalls Park­way, Beau­fort; Bluffton Self Help, 1264 May River Road, Bluffton; all BB&T branch offices in Beau­fort County; 1008 William Hilton Park­way, Unit A, Hilton Head Island; 200 Main St., Suite 101, Hilton Head Island; 2 Burnt Church Road in Bluffton; 1 Kem­mer­lin Lane, Lady’s Island; 905 Port Repub­lic St., Beau­fort; and Car­olina Stam­per, 203A Carteret St., Beaufort.

Details: Larry Mark, 843−524−8695

Read more: http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/12/08/1470993/outgrown-that-winter-coat-give.html#ixzz17xOJGffB

Just in time for Christ­mas, our friends at Pig­gly Wig­gly pre­sented us with a check that will pro­vide needed sup­port to BSH pro­grams. Cur­rently, we are ask­ing for dona­tions and vol­un­teers to get us through the hol­i­day period.

Next up, the Secret Santa pro­gram that will pro­vide toys for chil­dren who have been signed up to receive gifts from “Silent Santa” vol­un­teers through­out the community.

We all absolutely love Thanks­giv­ing Din­ner! The great food, the fam­ily, the fun! But this isn’t always the case for some of our Bluffton neigh­bors who have come on hard times on our senior cit­i­zens on fixed incomes with no wig­gle room for spe­cial hol­i­days. For these folks, the abil­ity to pay for a Thanks­giv­ing meal with all the trim­mings is next to impossible.

Last year friends of BSH donated enough Thanks­giv­ing gro­ceries to feed over 250 fam­i­lies directly, and another 50 fam­i­lies were pro­vided food from the BSH pantry. Con­tinue Reading…

Our Fall/Holiday edi­tion of Help Mat­ters is being mailed to donors and friends of BSH this week. The newslet­ter focuses on the needs of our neigh­bors dur­ing the Thanks­giv­ing and Christ­mas sea­son. In it, you will find details on how to spon­sor a fam­ily at Thanks­giv­ing and become a Silent Santa at Christmas.

Down­load the Fall/Holiday issue here in pdf for­mat. And, if you want to see past issues, hop on over to our Down­loads page.