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Heroes PBC is a Multi-Charity Organization that supports other charities alongside a main focus of supporting heroes in Law Enforcement, Fire Rescue & Military Veterans.

We offer ways to get involved with charitable causes and to serve your community.

Heroes PBC involves the West Palm Beach Police Department and Palm Beach County Fire Rescue in charitable causes and events with a mission to create a better community for all who live here.

We understand that the relationship between the public and those who serve them is very important and should be held in high esteem.

JD – jhaslup@heroespbc.com

About Heroes PBC

Heroes PBC Inc. is a local nonprofit organization formed by local heroes who work with our surrounding communities. We inspire confidence and provide opportunities to local families and friends in need. In today’s tough times our goal is to inspire and uplift our community, by not only coming to the aid of those in need, but by also being the catalyst behind changing the community’s perception of police, firefighters, paramedics, and military personnel. Additionally, we take pride in giving local veterans opportunities to volunteer their time and expertise through charitable events. Whether it’s a first responder needing assistance, or an individual needing a helping hand, we understand the ways in which we can make a difference.

JD Haslup – Founder

Coming from many generations of first responders, it was inevitable that my career path would be sure to follow suit. Becoming an EMT just before graduating high school, I was on an early path to helping people in need. At the age 20 my career as a police officer with the city of Riviera Beach enabled me to develop my passion of helping those who are in need.

During my tenure, I was able to identify the needs of a very diverse community. I had the opportunity to work directly with my community’s youth and this opened my eyes to the many children who were in dire need of life’s basic necessities. I quickly discovered that there needed to be an initiative which addressed issues such as these.

I believe that our mission of helping the community is rooted in first helping the children. Through the development of Heroes PBC Inc., we have been able to positively change the lives of children by helping them develop positive pathways towards success.

Jacqueline Clegg – Founder

Since I can remember, my passion for helping people in need has been immense. My calling brought me to the amazing city of West Palm Beach as a firefighter/paramedic. Through this career, I am able to see, first-hand, people who are in need because of crisis situations. The brothers and sisters I work with on all sides of public service have such a strong urge to help others. There are times I feel that our local communities oversee the true passion we have in helping them.

Starting this organization gives me the ability to give back to the surrounding communities in more than just responding to an emergency call. I desire to instill wisdom, strength, and hope back into the community. Here at Heroes PBC we strive to unite and support one another, because all so often, the power of unity and the ability for growth goes unnoticed. We create powerful relationships, stronger bonds between families and our local heroes, and put our youth’s success as a top priority.

Our Mission

To support our local heroes while creating community based relationships to establish awareness and respect between citizens and those that serve and protect them. We strive to positively affect how the public relates to their local heroes by hosting events for community outreach and Charitable causes for local heroes and those that they serve.

Charities

Heroes PBC is involved with Children’s Charities & Events for Disabled, Cancer, Terminally Ill, Down Syndrome and ALS.

You can get involved with any of the charities listed below.

Children’s Charities

Newborns in Need

Clothing for the tiniest children – www.newbornsinneed.org

Four years ago, single mom Sue T. delivered her son Daron 14 weeks early. She was poor, alone, and by her own admission, “jaded and cynical.” After searching everywhere for affordable clothing that would fit her preemie, she learned about Newborns in Need, which provides clothing and blankets for poor and premature babies.

“When the boxes arrived with the supplies I needed, it restored my faith in humanity,” Sue recalls. Her situation improved, and today, she is a volunteer with the organization, helping other women and infants.

Last year, Newborns in Need volunteers distributed more than 350,000 pieces of clothing and baby gear to 2,000 hospitals, shelters, and families across the country. The organization is looking for donations of blankets, sleepers, gowns, all-in-ones, hats, booties, bottles, pacifiers, and disposable diapers.

Share Our Strength

More than food for hungry kids – www.strength.org

We’ve all seen the images on the television news: starving children in faraway places like the Congo, Ethiopia, and Liberia. But the fact is, kids in America are starving too. Close to 13 million children in our own country are at serious risk of being undernourished.

Share Our Strength supports food banks and emergency-relief organizations, and works to address hunger’s root causes. It teaches low-income families about nutrition and budgeting, helps enroll poor children in federal nutrition programs, and funds groups that teach job and life skills to impoverished families. One of its programs encourages people to donate one hour’s wage to battle childhood hunger. Another initiative helps communities hold fund-raisers to benefit hungry kids.

KABOOM!

Safe playgrounds for everyone – www.kaboom.org

When 3-year-old Faith Tinoco was starting school back in 2002, her parents were worried that their daughter, born with Down syndrome, wouldn’t be able to play along with the other kids at Melody Park Christian School, in Salinas, California. A year earlier, there would have been cause for concern: The school’s playground equipment was outdated and inappropriate for Faith’s needs.

But thanks to an organization called Kaboom!, Faith’s school had just acquired a new playground — one that was completely safe and handicapped-accessible. Since 1995, Kaboom! has teamed up with corporate partners to create 546 playgrounds in cities and towns across the country at an average cost of $55,000 each. It has also improved 1,500 existing playgrounds to make them safer.

Reach Out and Read

A prescription for books – www.reachoutandread.org

Most kids dread going to the doctor’s office, but Mikela, 2, who lives in a shelter with her mother in rural Vermont, isn’t one of them. That’s because this little girl’s pediatrician participates in Reach Out and Read, a unique literacy program that distributes books to needy children at each of their regular checkups.

The organization, which trains doctors and nurses to educate parents about the value of reading, provides books to an estimated 1.7 million kids each year. It accepts donations of money and of gently used books, and it is currently seeking volunteers to staff doctors’ waiting rooms, to help kids with reading.

Youth Law Center

Protecting children’s rights – www.youthlawcenter.com

Laws require that children’s shelters provide abandoned kids with a safe and healthy environment, but some shelters fall short of even the minimal standards. When that happens, advocates from the Youth Law Center (YLC) are on the case. Recently, they discovered serious deficiencies at several California kids’ shelters: They were overcrowded and staffed by untrained workers. YLC forced regulators to crack down, and as a result, the shelters were either improved or closed.

The mission of the YLC is to make sure that the legal rights of children in the foster-care and criminal-justice systems are being upheld and that kids have easy access to the services they need.

Project Linus

Blanketing kids with care – www.projectlinus.org

Every child needs a security blanket — especially kids who are seriously ill or who’ve undergone some kind of trauma. Project Linus makes sure that these children have something to snuggle up with. Volunteers create homemade, washable blankets of all sizes and styles and distribute them to kids “in need of a big hug.” Since 1995, Project Linus has given 673,000 blankets to children in countries around the world.

If you want to contribute a homemade blanket, the organization offers patterns on its Website and provides links to local chapters. Blankets can be quilts, comforters, fleece throws, afghans, or receiving blankets, in child-friendly colors. Cash donations to help defray distribution costs are also welcome.

Parents As Teachers

Support for moms and dads – www.patnc.org

Kids don’t come with an instruction manual, but Parents as Teachers provides the next best thing: Its staff regularly visits needy families at home, helping parents feel more confident about their caregiving skills, teaching them how to better interact with their children, and connecting them to community resources that serve families. It also provides screenings to identify developmental problems early. PAT believes that early interventions can help stave off child abuse and other problems.

Donations

We are a fully credited 501.3C Charity Organization.

All donations are tax deductible and receipts will be giving to all people who donate.

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