Events

Join SHBHU on the third Sunday of every month serving meals with a smile to those experiencing homelessness in the Downtown Raleigh area. OCOC is the result of many organizations working together in an effort to help close the hunger gap! SHBHU volunteers will bring food, drinks, and paper products to help support the main meal. Volunteers arrive at OCOC at 1:00pm to help set up the food line and we are usually finished cleaning up about 2:30pm. Volunteers will receive an email a couple days prior with specifics on what to bring with them. Any age can volunteer and […]

Triangle Families, Hello! It is Ambassador Emma Murtaugh and I have some amazing news! We are very excited to announce the 4th annual SHBHU Small Hands Big Hearts Java Jive Jog 10k/5k on August 25th!  For three years we have partnered with Java Jive to organize this FUN race. It is always a HUGE success and a VERY memorable race morning! Through the community and Sponsor support and participation in this race, kindness and generosity, the SHBHU's mission to nurture children's instinctive compassion continues year after year. As many of you know, SHBHU provides accessible year-round volunteer opportunities and also […]

Chapter Cheer at the Ronald McDonald House in Chapel Hill Story and Crafts with the siblings of the children who are in the hospital and possibly the children who are receiving care at the hospital too. The Ronald McDonald House has asked SHBHU to have no more than 6 people including parents at one time so that we can maintain flexibility and maintain a calm, relaxing atmosphere for the families staying there. Attending families will be responsible for story and follow craft. SHBHU can supply if needed.

Join SHBHU on the third Sunday of every month serving meals with a smile to those experiencing homelessness in the Downtown Raleigh area. OCOC is the result of many organizations working together in an effort to help close the hunger gap! SHBHU volunteers will bring food, drinks, and paper products to help support the main meal. Volunteers arrive at OCOC at 1:00pm to help set up the food line and we are usually finished cleaning up about 2:30pm. Volunteers will receive an email a couple days prior with specifics on what to bring with them. Any age can volunteer and […]

Hi SHBHU families, I am Ambassador Mitchell and I have an urgent request for extra hands in a Compassion Mission to help Peak Lab Rescue! They will be housing 200 dogs from Carteret and Craven counties at the fairgrounds who have been displaced because of Hurricane Florence. There is an immediate need for the following items: bleach, laundry detergent, small fleece blankets, bath size towels, paper towels, Clorox wipes, dog bowls, I AMS or Purina dog food, canned pumpkin (not pumpkins pie filling), and gallon jugs of water. I would like to collect these items in the next few days. […]

Come join SHBHU at the "Fill the Truck" Collection Drive in Garner TODAY @3pm! The SHBHU Compassionate Closets team will be forming an assembly line and delivering the 50+ BAGS (YES 50+) of clothes and many other needed items that were donated in the past 72 hours for our NC friends impacted by Flo! Come join us! We need all the small hands and big hearts we can get to help! "Fill the Truck" Collection Drive Garner, NC @3pm! WalMart parking lot 4500 Fayetteville Rd Donations will continue to be also collected throughout the month of October if you were […]

Chapter Cheer at the Ronald McDonald House in Chapel Hill Story and Crafts with the siblings of the children who are in the hospital and possibly the children who are receiving care at the hospital too. The Ronald McDonald House has asked SHBHU to have no more than 6 people including parents at one time so that we can maintain flexibility and maintain a calm, relaxing atmosphere for the families staying there. Attending families will be responsible for story and follow craft. SHBHU can supply if needed.

Join SHBHU on the third Sunday of every month serving meals with a smile to those experiencing homelessness in the Downtown Raleigh area. OCOC is the result of many organizations working together in an effort to help close the hunger gap! SHBHU volunteers will bring food, drinks, and paper products to help support the main meal. Volunteers arrive at OCOC at 1:00pm to help set up the food line and we are usually finished cleaning up about 2:30pm. Volunteers will receive an email a couple days prior with specifics on what to bring with them. Any age can volunteer and […]

Hello SHBHU Ambassadors and Small Handers! It's Ambassador Emma Murtaugh here again with some exciting news! We had a local SHBHU family propose a COMPASSIONATE idea to partner with a school in New York called Clarkstown South High School. Let's all join this team for a great cause! They are fundraising to send gift cards to SHBHU so we can send them to our neighboring students and teachers impacted by Hurricane Florence.  They have already raised a lot of money!  So kind! They want us to join them in this fundraiser and collection drive. This is a wonderful chance to show compassion […]