Welcome to our website! Every child deserves the chance to hear and we are here to help! It is our joy to provide hearing devices for children with hearing losses between the ages of newborn and twenty years whose parents are unable to meet this special need financially. Our applicationprovides additional information and details. We look forward to serving you.
Thank you for your support in fundraising for these worthy children!
Because of generous donations totaling almost $6 MILLION dollars since 1985, we have given over 2,500 children a grant to support their needs for hearing. The HIKE Fund, Inc. was created by Emma Tedrick and Charles Terrill as the philanthropic project of Job’s Daughters International, a girls leadership organization, to give the members a specific and unique charity to which they were able to devote their energies.
Check out our first newsletter for the 2022-2023 year! Keep track of your Q & A from each edition to enter to win a prize at Supreme Session 2023 in Middleton, Wisconsin.
We have launched our spring virtual 5K with the goal of raising $15,000. Registration is open now through the end of May. Complete the 5K in your hometown, with your Bethel, with your run group, or neighbors and family anytime between April 1st and May 31st! We are hoping for another East Coast – Midwest – West Coast rivalry! Sign-up by the end of March – let’s go!!
Register Today:https://runsignup.com/Race/IA/CouncilBluffs/HIKEfortheTreasure5K Also, we have started an opportunity for the HIKE Fund Athlete Champion Program. Join our team! The HIKE Fund Athlete Champion Program welcomes all runners, walkers, and fitness enthusiasts to promote The HIKE Fund, Inc. at community events and races. As a part of this program, you will be an ambassador and help spread the word about the great work that The HIKE Fund does. The Athlete Champion Program registration fee of $75 includes the HIKE for Treasure Virtual 5K registration and a swag box with a performance shirt, hat, car magnet, and nutrition goodies! Sign-up by April 30th and receive your swag box in July!
We are reopened for applications – www.thehikefund.org!! Thank you to all of our amazing donors, especially our Job’s Daughters International supporters, who have allowed us to receive new applications after nine months of fundraising. Please continue to do what you can to help amazing children across the nation to afford and access hearing aids and other assistive hearing devices!
Will you unleash your generosity todayfor The HIKE Fund? Any amount gets us closer to helping children with the gift of hearing! There are six ways you can support us today and over the next week.
The annual day that follows Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday – Giving Tuesday! It’s fascinating that it bookends the flurry of consumerism and seemingly endless deals and discounts. This year’s theme for Giving Tuesday is Unleash Generosity.
As a HIKE Fund supporter and champion, you know we had to discontinue processing grant applications in May 2021 due to decreased funds available to give. We are a lean nonprofit organization where only 2% of our income goes to overhead expenses like insurance, accounting, and legal costs to stay compliant as an organization. Everything else goes to eligible children and their families who are waiting to improve their hearing through aids and other assistive devices.
It is a life-giving and life-changing work, and we do not take for granted the amazing donations and generosity of so many people each year, especially the members of Job’s Daughters International. In a typical year, we give 70 grants ranging from $1,000-$5,000. We deeply want to re-open applications again in 2022. We are working hard to maximize our donations with matching gifts and unique ways to fundraise.
Will you unleash your generosity for Giving Tuesday 2021 to The HIKE Fund? Any amount gets us closer to helping children with the gift of hearing! There are six ways you can support us over the next week:
We are recruiting four runners for the marathon (26.2 miles) and five runners for the half marathon (13.1 miles).
Fundraising is required for the charity bibs: $3,000 minimum for the marathon, and $1,500 for the half marathon. Each runner will have support with fundraising and guidance for achieving their goals.
We are looking to host the team together in MN over the weekend of the races and each runner will be provided with a HIKE Fund running tank, hat, and other essentials.
We are so excited for the fall weather to sweep across the country. Grab those HIKE Fund hoodies and sweatshirts and promote the great work we do because of you! Our applications still remain closed at this time, but we are very excited and hopeful that fundraising this fall will get us back to re-opening. You are always welcome to send in a donation or make one online: https://thehikefund.org/donate/.
Online Auction! Starting on Friday, October 1st, we will kick off an online auction of 12 generously donated items. Auction will close on Saturday, October 16th. Check out the items and sign-up to bid online today: https://app.bidbeacon.com/activity/#YSCUWM. If you have items you’d like to donate to a future auction, please let us know.
RUN for HIKE! We have been granted 10 charity bibs to run the famous Grandma’s Marathonand Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon in Duluth, MN on June 18, 2022. We are recruiting for five runners for the marathon (26.2 miles) and five runners for the half marathon (13.1 miles). Fundraising is required for the charity bibs: $3,000 minimum for the marathon, and $1,500 for the half marathon. Each runner will have support with fundraising and guidance for achieving their goals. We are looking to host the team together in MN over the weekend of the races and each runner will be provided with a HIKE Fund running tank, hat, and other essentials. If you are interested in being a member of the HIKE Fund Marathon/Half Marathon Team, complete this survey by November 30th: https://forms.gle/nX64BJr3gaAnA6nF7.
Welcome, September! The month of cooler temps and a nice cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa. The HIKE Fund has partnered with Driven Coffee Roasters for a month-long fundraiser. From each purchase, we will receive 30%.
Every bit helps as we work to restore our application funding for deserving children and their families—to fulfill our mission in giving the gift of hearing!
Driven Coffee Roasters offers beverages, snacks, and coffee gear galore! We’d love to have your support this month: https://www.drivencoffeefundraising.com/ref/the-hike-fund-inc/. Online sales open Wednesday, September 1st, and close on Thursday, September 30th!
My name is Amber. I am the parent of Aidan. Aidan was a recent recipient of funds for new hearing aids. My husband and I cannot send enough thanks to show our gratitude for this opportunity for Aidan. After receiving his hearing aids he could not stop singing. He is not our singer or musician in any way, but he loved the sound of his voice. These new hearing aids have made everything so much more clear for Aidan. They are much more discreet which is relieves the pressure of others noticing them and asking questions or poking fun about. I am excited to see how his education will be impacted as he enters high school and can use his new aids in new ways. Thank you once again from our family.
From Aidan: Thank you for paying for my new hearing aids. I really like that they are less noticeable and more clear. I also like that I am able to use bluetooth technology to help me hear my videos for class or a movie I’m watching. I am an eighth grader going to high school and I’m glad that they are harder for others to see.
Sincerely,
Amber and Aidan
As of May 10, 2021, The HIKE Fund Board of Directors has discontinued accepting applications due to limited funding. We are working hard to raise money to meet the application requests. We do not have backup funds and we are funding approximately 10 applications per month. This is equivalent to $50,000 per month. COVID-19 has impeded the progress of so many nonprofit organizations like ours. We will continue to evaluate our status to fund applications over the next few months and hope reopen accepting applications by the fall.
7 Ways to Support The HIKE FUND RIGHT NOW
Click on the hyperlinks below and check out these opportunities below. Take part in bringing the gift of hearing to eligible children across the nation!
Host an event – virtual or in-person – to raise funds. Some groups are hosting paint parties or talent shows with a dinner. Anything to bring people together and fundraise together will help.
Thank you for being an amazing and incomparable supporters and friends of The HIKE Fund!!
Welcome to our website! Every child deserves the chance to hear and we are here to help! It is our joy to provide hearing devices for children with hearing losses between the ages of newborn and twenty years whose parents are unable to meet this special need financially. Our application provides additional information and details. We look forward to serving you.
