Mary Gray acts as Secretary/Treasurer on the Helpings of Hope board. Mary is a native Hoosier. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University in Psychology and Hospital and Health Care Administration. After working for 20 years in non-profit…

This past Wednesday, Helpings of Hope had the pleasure of gardening with the clients of New Hope of Indiana. Our Master Gardener, Dawn Keller Doll, provided gardening education — from the importance of keeping your garden tools clean to how…

This weekend, Kitty Seelig, our Executive Director, had the privilege of attending The People’s Food Summit at Riverside Park. She participated in a strategic planning session with people divided into various topic areas. Subjects covered included: Urban Agriculture, Transportation, Health and…

Helpings of Hope will be having garden cleanup days on Saturday, April 1 and April 8 from 10am-2pm. We will be preparing the Nora garden for summer planting. We could use your help with weed pulling, trimming, digging small trenches around…

  On Saturday, Executive Director Kitty Seelig had the pleasure of speaking at the “Discover The Empowerment Workshop” sponsored by Empowerment by Design, a company founded by Pastor DeAndra Flowers. Kitty spoke on how to make healthy food choices to…

Helpings of Hope has seen many new and exciting developments in 2016! We believe 2017 is going to be even greater, and we would like to invite you to be a part of our efforts to help address hunger issues…

I can attest to the pleasure and pain that are the opposite sides of the gardening coin. For community gardens to be successful in their rugged urban environments — to say nothing of making more than a minor contribution to…

Helpings of Hope is excited to announce that we will be partnering with Tanorria Askew in the near future. Tanorria will be doing some cooking demonstrations, helping with teaching the refugee women of the Darfur Women Network, and hopefully giving…

Helpings of Hope’s Executive Director, Kitty Seelig, is teaming up with Darfur Women Network to provide a nutrition-focused program for immigrant communities in the Indianapolis area. The program will be offering tips to immigrant mothers from more than twenty countries…

On Thursday, October 22nd, Kitty Seelig (Executive Director) and Bruce Garrison (President of the Board) were invited to give a presentation on Hunger and ways that we can close the Food Gap in our society and in our local situation.…