14th Bridge of Hope Fundraiser

Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 5 - 9 pm

Silent and Live Auction & Dinner

We are looking for Event Sponsors and Donations of items for our annual auction. For more information on the annual fundraiser, click here or call Don or Jessica at 541-926-4036.

Silent Auction Opens at 5:00 pm

Program Starts at 6:00 pm, Dinner service at 6:30 pm


Our History

Albany Helping Hands’ roots go back to the 1980s located in a mall church headed by Pastor Les Bailey,

Albany Helping Hands was granted independent status as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit Faith-based Non-denominational organization in 1998.​

​​​Housing

  • Shelter for up to 120 Registered Guests daily

  • Bailey Home for Single Mothers with Children

  • Transitional Housing

Meals

  • Registered Guests of the Shelter are provided three hot meals daily.

    Training/ Education

  • Albany Helping Hands operates three businesses, a Thrift Store, a Firewood Lot, and a U-Haul Rental, to provide on-the-job training for our Registered Guests and income for the organization.

 

Ideal Option Addiction Treatment

An Ideal Option clinical team will be seeing patients one day a week at Albany Helping Hands homeless shelter, providing treatment for substance use disorder.

Ideal Option is a national leader in evidence-based outpatient treatment for addiction to opioids, stimulants, alcohol, and polysubstance and specializes in difficult-to-treat substances like fentanyl and xylazine. The new clinic is co-located at Albany Helping Hands. (Continued)


The Bailey Home - For Women with Children

Each family that comes through the Bailey Home doors comes to us with great need. The struggles and barriers they are trying to overcome would be overwhelming to most, and they do it with kids in tow.

Baily Home remodeling just about complete, January 2019.

Most of us have family or friends we can depend on.

Bailey Home mothers come to us with very little to no support. Many are from dysfunctional, abusive, and sometimes violent relationships.

Bailey Home moms come to Albany Helping Hands to transition from a past world of chaos and uncertainty. The single mothers crave safety and security for themselves and their children.

You can give online by clicking here. The safe and secure online transaction takes just minutes, or you can mail a check to Albany Helping Hands, 619 9th Ave SE Albany, OR 97322. Thank you!

 
Demonstrating the love of Jesus for people by providing basic needs, encouraging faith, and giving hope for a brighter future.
— Albany Helping Hands Mission Statement

I Am Reminded

An Easter Message from Don Sparks, Executive Director

As Easter approaches, I am reminded we serve a God of second chances. God believes so strongly in second chances that He came to earth at Christmas to become the living sacrifice at Easter. In doing so, He made the way for every one of us to have second chances in life and a relationship with Him.

He has given me many second chances, what about you? Has God blessed you in spite of your mistakes or poor choices? At Albany Helping Hands, we are working with people who desperately need second chances, too. (continued)


Bridge of Hope Sponsors

 
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Make a Donation
 

Retail Operations

When you shop at the Albany Helping Hands Thrift Store or Firewood Lot or rent a U-Haul through us, you help by providing income and on-the-job training for registered guests.

 

Thrift Store

50% off for Age 60 and above on Tuesdays

50% off for Veterans and First Responders on Thursdays

 

Campfire wood, or cords delivered, the Albany Helping Hands Firewood lot has you covered.

 
 
 

Needed: Washers and Dryers

Albany Helping Hands would love to take any WORKING, UNWANTED WASHER and/or DRYER off your hands.Every day at Helping Hands is laundry day! Our volunteers wash bedding, clothes, and towels 7 days a week.If you have a washer/dryer you are ready to re…

We wash and dry bedding, clothes, and towels at the Shelter and the Bailey Home seven days a week. It’s a significant workload for the appliances.

Albany Helping Hands would love to take any working Washer and Dryer off your hands for a tax-deductible donation for the appliance's value (s).

If you have a washer/dryer ready to re-home, please get in touch with us at (541) 926-4036 and ask for Trudy or Don. Thank you.