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BOCA HELPING HANDS INC

aka Boca Helping Hands   |   Boca Raton, FL   |  https://www.bocahelpinghands.org/

Mission

Boca Helping Hands mission is to provide food, medical, and financial assistance to meet basic human needs as well as education, job training, and guidance to create self-sufficiency.

Ruling year info

2000

Principal Officer

Mr. Greg Hazle

Main address

1500 NW 1st Court

Boca Raton, FL 33432 USA

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EIN

31-1713631

NTEE code info

Food Service, Free Food Distribution Programs (K30)

Housing Expense Reduction Support, Rent Assistance (L82)

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Our programs

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Boca Helping Hands (BHH)

Boca Helping Hands serves lunch six days a week, Monday through Saturday and a Thursday Night Family Dinner; Distributes over 5,000 pantry bags monthly to qualified individuals; Reaching over 1,000 elementary students in 10 schools through BHH Backpacks with 6 meals and 3 snacks for 33 weeks of the school year. The Job Mentoring Program helps our clients by offering computer classes, resume building and online job searches; Job Training programs include: Hospitality, Home Health Care; CAN (Certified Nursing Assistant); CDL (Commercial Truck Driving), Customer Service Representative; IT Help Desk Technician; and Medical Billing and Coding. The Resource Center helps qualified Boca Raton residents in crisis situations with limited financial help, budget planning and referrals to other agencies; Children’s Assistance Program helps working parents with summer camp and after school fees or their children. BHH offers medical and dental voucher to our clients for a first visit to Genesis Community Health located in Boca Raton and Boynton Beach.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people

Boca Helping Hands currently has seven Job Training Programs: Hospitality, Home Health Aid, CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant), CDL (Commercial Driver's License), Customer Service Representative, IT Help Desk Technician. and Medical Billing and Coding.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people

Where we work

Goals & Strategy

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Charting impact

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Help guide our clients from basic need to independence.

Boca Helping Hands has a strategically structured job training, mentoring, and education program that exists to empower students in their area of interest and train them in one of 11 available areas of expertise. Our Job Training Programs include: Home Health Aid, Certified Nursing Assistant, CDL-Commercial Driver's License, Call Center Representative, Information Technology, Medical Billing and Coding, Carpentry, HVAC, Drafting, Electrical Apprenticeship, Plumbing Apprenticeship, and HVAC Apprenticeship

No matter which Job Training Program chosen, our students receive the training necessary to gain employment in a high-demand industry.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • Who are the people you serve with your mission?

    Clients that come to Boca Helping Hands are considered to be in the low to moderate income population. Many clients are currently unemployed or underemployed, seeking new opportunities. Our pantry program provides service to Palm Beach County residents who are at or below the poverty level.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, We determined an area of need for our pantry program based on demographic data collecting., To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • What significant change resulted from feedback?

    Our fifth pantry bag distribution site in west Delray Beach was shown to be considered a Food Dessert, where people have limited access to economical food, fresh produce. We pinpointed this area by using a mapping process s based on demographic information collected from our clients. In our Job Training program, our Admission and Care Coordinators speak with our clients one on one. They help to find any impediments that are creating problems in their quest to complete one of our nine Job Training programs. Currently we are interviewing a pipeline of applicants to offer additional financial support while participating in some of our longer running classes.

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve

Financials

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Operations

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BOCA HELPING HANDS INC

Board of directors
as of 12/08/2022
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Mr. Gary Peters

Gary Peters Family Foundation

Term: 2006 -

Gary Peters

Gary Peters Family Foundation

Ron Coombs

Executive VP JM Family Enterprises, Inc.

Jack Jaiven

Signature Real Estate Companies

Dean J. Borg

Ascend Properties

Peter Brockway

Brockway, Moran, & Partners, Inc.

Gary Hildebrand

Rotary Club of Boca Raton

The Rev. Dr. Andrew D. Hagen

Pastor of Advent Lutheran Church

Tandy Robinson

VP of Goldman Sachs

Zoe Lanham

The Addison

W. Greg Peters

Gary Peters Family Foundation

Martine Pierre-Paul

Valley Bank

Gregory M. Mitchell

Marshall, Grant, PLLC

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 10/14/2022
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Black/African American
Gender identity
Male, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

Race & ethnicity

No data

Gender identity

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Sexual orientation

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Disability

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Equity strategies

Last updated: 10/14/2022

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Data
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
Policies and processes
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.