WHY

Single moms do it all alone. They drop their children off at daycare or school, go to work, pick their children up, make dinner, help with homework, tuck them in to bed, to do it all again the next day and the next. And then, they are together all weekend. No break. No social life. No adult conversation.

Nearly half of single moms work minimum-wage jobs and are unable to pay all the bills. This gives them a sense of hopelessness and they are overwhelmed. Your donation of time as a mentor or part of a life assistance team, gives her relationships which decrease the loneliness and isolation. Your donation of resources helps pay living and daycare expenses so she can get a career education to better provide for her children.

When there isn’t enough money, what suffers? How can she cut expenses? It’s usually the food. There is less food and more processed food because healthy food is more expensive. The result? The children are hungry and can’t focus in school. 

Hope for Single Moms uses a “teach-a-woman-to-fish approach. With a better paying job, single moms can provide well for their children. With better food, children will grow better physically and do better academically. The next generation benefits. All of society benefits.

But they need YOU to invest your time and resources to help them go back to school. By doing so you fight poverty and childhood hunger in single mom families. Learn more.

WHAT

Your resources of money and time set up programs that help change the world for single mom families. It starts with having relationships with other single moms, which breaks the isolation and loneliness. Because of donors like you, Hope for Single Moms can help churches set up single mom support groups. Because of donors like you, there are study halls hosted at other organizations for student moms to meet with other students to study or do projects.

Many single moms don’t know about the programs and resources available to them. You help them through Hope for Single Moms free career consultation. Your donations allow Hope for Single Moms to have a client coordinator to help moms accepted into the program navigate the process of applying for school and financial aid and other resources.

Your donation of time to serve single moms gives them the family they may not have. As an experienced mom and mentor, you check in with your mom weekly and take calls about parenting or any other questions, just like you would do with your daughter.

Single moms need to know other women in similar situations. Think back to when you had young children. Didn’t you share your struggles with your friends with young children? Similarly, Hope for Single Moms has a peer-to-peer mentoring program. Student moms are paired with single moms who have a career education and are farther along on their journey.

And lastly, your resources remove the barriers single moms have to returning to school to get a career education. The greatest barriers are living and daycare expenses. Your donations help remove those barriers by allowing Hope for Single Moms to pay those bills directly while a single mom is in school. Click for client qualifications. Click for program info.

HOW

Hope for Single Moms is 100% donor-funded and volunteer-staffed. That means single moms NEED YOU!

Your donation today makes up for the loss of wages while in school. Become a supporter today!

Volunteer today and become a mom mentor–it’s like loving your daughter.

Contact your church about hosting a single mom support group, a single mom family activity or financially supporta single mom success story. Learn more about volunteering and how to get your church involved.