A Showing Hearts Foundation Program
Heart for the Community
Our direct outreach across Queens: food drives, clothing drives, toy drives, giveaways, and giving back on the blocks where our neighbors live. No applications, no red tape. We show up with what people need.
About the Program
Heart for the Community is the part of our work with no curriculum and no cohort. It’s the giving back. When a family needs groceries, when kids need coats before winter, when a block needs hands on a Saturday morning, this is the arm that answers.
It runs on donated goods, sponsors, and volunteers, and it has been the constant underneath everything else we do since the Foundation started. It’s the plainest expression of why we’re here: it’s because we care.
See It In Action
Our 2026 beautification day in Hollis: the sixth year neighbors, volunteers, and partners have turned out for the same block.
What We Do
The specifics change with the season and with what the community asks for. The pattern doesn’t.
Food Drives & Meals
Groceries, pantry stock, and hot meals for neighbors and families going through a hard stretch, including feeding people experiencing homelessness.
Clothing & Coat Drives
Seasonal coat and clothing collections that put warm layers on families before the cold sets in, and keep our closets stocked year-round.
Toy Drives & Holiday Giveaways
Our Coalition Kids holiday toy drive has handed out hundreds of toys at a time to children in the community and in local shelters.
Community Giveaways
Pop-up giveaways of essentials such as school supplies, hygiene items, and household goods, brought directly to the blocks that need them.
Beautification Projects
Neighbors, volunteers, and partners out on the same block with paint, plants, and cleanup gear. Our Hollis beautification project has run for six years running.
Disaster & Crisis Response
When a community outside ours gets hit, we mobilize. That has meant delivering over 150,000 bottles of water and supplies to Flint, Michigan.
No Barriers
Show up, take what you need
We don’t means-test our neighbors. There’s no income verification, no paperwork, and no question about whether you deserve a coat. If you’re at the event and you need what we brought, it’s yours.
For year-round clothing and household essentials, this work runs alongside Queens Community Closets, our dedicated pop-up closet program.
Get Involved
Every coat, toy, and box of groceries came from somebody. There are four easy ways to be that somebody.
Donate Goods
Coats, toys, non-perishables, school supplies, and household essentials all go straight back out to families.
Arrange a drop-offGive
A donation buys what the drives don't cover: the turkeys, the storage, the truck, the gaps.
Donate nowVolunteer
Sorting, packing, setup, and handing things out. Most of what we do runs on neighbors who showed up.
Sign upHost or Sponsor a Drive
Businesses, churches, schools, and civic groups can run a collection with us or sponsor an event outright.
Partner with usFrom the Blog
Out in the Community
Beautification 2026 Recap: Six Years of Growing Together in Hollis
On June 5th, Showing Hearts volunteers gathered at Peters Field in Hollis, Queens to clean, plant, and paint, marking six consecutive years of our park beautification tradition.
Celebrating Five Years of Community Magic: The 2025 Holiday Jouvay
Here is a specific kind of energy that takes over the streets of Queens during the holidays: a mix of anticipation, gratitude, and pure, unadulterated joy.
Strengthening Our Roots: The Showing Hearts Beautification Project 2025
At Showing Hearts Foundation, our mantra is simple: #ItsBecauseWeCare. We don’t just say it; we show it by rolling up
Thank you Westfield
As the unemployment rates continued to skyrocket across NYC due to the pandemic we are grateful to partner with Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield in our Heart for the Community Initiatives!
Over 400 Toys Given Away at our annual Holiday Social
Photo Recap: Thank you to @VulcanSocietyEvents@Senatorcomrie for coming by to help hand out over 400 Toys to the children and families in the community. Thank you @resortsworldnyc @emblemhealth@Walmart for partnering up with us on this COALITION KIDS initiative yet another year. #itsBecauseWeCare ❤
Coalition Kids Annual Holiday Toy Drive
Coalition Kids Annual Holiday Toy Drive is currently going on. Donate a New or Gently used toy and be a blessing to the children in the community as well as Local Shelters. #itsBecauseWeCare
FlashBack ~ Over 150,000 Bottles of Water and Supplies delivered in Flint, MI
A group of nonprofit organizations brought together by Raymond Ramos,Executive Director of Project HYPE collectively touched the lives of the people in Flint,Michigan affected by the tragic water crisis in their town. With everyone’s effort’s along with a host of donations and fundraising the group
Know a Block That Needs Us?
Tell us where the need is. Community groups, churches, schools, and neighbors can all bring us a request, or bring us in as a partner on something you’re already running.