Helping is Easy

Helping is Easy (HiE), also known as Helping is Easy, Inc., is a non-profit organization based in New York City. Started by New York City teacher Joshua Good, its mission is to help group leaders organize community service projects and make it easier for individuals and families to organize community service projects. HelpingIsEasy's name comes from its goal to optimize the acts of volunteering and donating. It seeks to make it easier for volunteers to find and help facilities in need of more resources.
Services
The organization registers human-service facilities on HelpingisEasy.org. These facilities include but are not limited to hospitals, hospices, soup kitchens, nursing homes, orphanages, and homeless shelters. These facilities list their proposed needs on the website, such as food, clothing, money, office supplies, toys, and decorations. Individual donors and volunteer groups then select projects, such as food drives and painting events, and contribute as much as they are prepared to. The charity project is then made public on the website.
History
HelpingisEasy.org was created by Joshua Good (formerly known as Joshua Fifer) in 2008 after 15 years of organizing and participating in community service projects.
Good was inspired to a sense of civic duty after eye-witnessing the events of 9/11 in New York City. He designed a project to add artwork and decorations in children’s hospitals. With his college friends and fraternity brothers, he launched Project T.K.E. (Transforming Kids Environments) at the end of 2001. Over time the project expanded to include over 22 college organizations, 14 youth programs and 51 public schools - and eventually was opened up to benefit hospices, nursing homes, homeless shelters and other human-service programs.
In 2005 a website was launched for teachers and community service coordinators to organize projects for their groups, eventually including opportunities to coordinate a variety of donations and volunteering opportunities. Since then, Good has worked with group leaders and facility administrators to build the platform that is now HelpingisEasy.org.
Good has spoken about civic engagement and his organization at the Rotary Club of Metro New York City in 2009 and a Key Club divisional meeting in 2010.
Staff
Although volunteers contribute to the community service projects that HelpingisEasy has accomplished, there are staff who devote time to improving HelpingisEasy's procedures and website. These are the Board of Directors and Community Service Coordinators, and their members come from backgrounds of philanthropy, law, education, business, and health careers as well as youth programs.
Recent Work
Staff at HelpingisEasy, along with many volunteering individuals and groups, have been hosting and participating in painting events at facilities around New York City. The facilities benefiting include the New York Foundling, Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, and Metropolitan Hospital Center.

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