Boeing gives $$$ to local nonprofit

 

Boeing’s Employees Community Fund recently awarded $46,070 to MS Helping Hands (409 Howell Way), an Edmonds-based nonprofit corporation to benefit local residents with multiple sclerosis. 

The grant was designated to purchase a new 2007 Dodge Sprinter Van with a wheelchair lift for use by the corporation to pick up and deliver donated recycled durable medical equipment and mobility equipment items.

 These items are then recycled to people with multiple sclerosis and others - for minimum suggested donations - who have been denied these items by Medicare, Medicaid, DSHS, private insurance companies and other social service agencies. In other words, to those who have fallen through the cracks of the social services system.

“This is an ongoing project,” says Bill Brayer, the group’s president.

             Since October 1999, the Donor Closet has recycled over 56,000 items, provided over $105,000 in financial assistance grants, and donated over $450,000 in medical equipment to other local and national charities to be distributed worldwide.

The corporation also collected recently more than 75,000 stuffed animals that were distributed to children who survived the Katrina and Rita hurricanes and the tornados that devastated Florida. 

“Stuffed animals also went to various local churches and charities to distribute to foster children, children of incarcerated parents, orphanages, for Christmas presents and Easter baskets,” says president Brayer.

             For more information on the corporation, go to www.mshelp.org or call (425) 712-1807.