Eat Pizza for Charity With Bake 425 and the Make It Better Foundation

Full stomachs. Happy hearts. Can’t lose. Join Bake 425 in supporting Warming Hearts and Hands, a program dedicated to providing winter outerwear and blankets to the underserved in Chicago. From Dec. 16 through Jan. 6, 15 percent of all purchases associated with the Make It Better Foundation will be donated to Warming Hearts and Hands. […]

Donate to Warming Hearts and Hands VII

Please join the Make It Better Foundation and help give handmade or newly purchased blankets, hats, coats, gloves and scarves to more than 1,000 men, women and children this winter season. When you donate cash, new blankets or winter outerwear, we distribute 100 percent before the holidays through vetted nonprofits. Donations are accepted through Dec. 15, […]

Donate Outerwear to Warming Hearts and Hands VI

Calling all knitter circles, quilting bees, elementary schools and community centers! Please join Make It Better Foundation and help give handmade or newly purchased blankets, hats, coats, gloves and scarves to more than 1,000 men, women and children this winter season. Each year around the holidays, Make It Better Foundation and its partner nonprofits give […]

Quick and Easy: Giving Tuesday

Donate to Warming Hearts & Hands and enjoy coffee and a treat for Giving Tuesday, a national movement that encourages communities to help nonprofit organizations. Giving Tuesday was added to the calendar this past year on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In 2012, more than 2,500 partners from all 50 states […]

Donate Outerwear to Warming Hearts and Hands V

Calling all knitter circles, quilting bees, elementary schools and community centers! Please join Make It Better Foundation and help give handmade or newly purchased blankets, hats, coats, gloves and scarves to more than 1,000 men, women and children this winter season. Each year around the holidays, Make It Better Foundation and its partner nonprofits give […]

Warming Hearts & Hands

Oh, we love win-win-win-win scenarios. Here’s the best one we know of: Buy a perfect gift for a special someone, buy it from a retailer in your own backyard, get a discount (yippee!) and know that your purchase represents a contribution to a program that buys winter outerwear for those who can’t afford it. The […]

Donate Outerwear to Warming Hearts and Hands IV

Please join Make It Better foundation and help give new hats, coats, gloves and scarves to more than 1,000 men, women and children. Each year around the holidays, Make It Better Foundation and its partner nonprofits work to supply hundreds of new coats to those in need. This is our 4th Annual Warming Hearts & Hands […]

Warming Hearts & Hands 2011

Many warm hearts and hands went into providing the winter coats for this year’s Make It Better Warming Hearts and Hands program. Through our caring readers, over 470 new Lands’ End coats were donated to 6 wonderful organizations. This year’s program added drop-off sites for new gloves, scarves and hats. We were overwhelmed by the […]