Susie’s Coats for Kids and Hannah’s Socks Merge Organizations
(Toledo, OH) Susie's Coats for Kids and Hannah's Socks are merging into a new agency, "Susie's Coats for Kids and Hannah's Socks, Inc." These two organizations, each providing essential clothing to the underserved in the community, are uniting to streamline services to promote efficiency and economy in accomplishing the joint missions of both organizations. The merger is effective July 1, 2023.
Susie's Coats for Kids was founded in 2006 and provides new coats, hats, and gloves to children in financial need in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan each winter. "Nothing is more fundamental than wanting a child to be warm in the winter. With the addition of Hannah's Socks, we can provide another necessity– socks – to keep them warm," said Susie Perry, previous Executive Director of Susie's Coats for Kids and the Executive Director of the newly merged organization. "The most important fact of this merger is that not one aspect of our services will be changed or dropped. Services will only be enhanced and more efficient."
"Since Hannah's Socks began in 2008, we have provided over one million pairs of socks to those in need in our community," stated Robin Laird, Hannah's Socks' former Executive Director. "We've served the same communities as Susie's Coats and see this as an opportunity to make our outreach even easier for those in need." Hannah's Socks was also the first nonprofit to receive socks from the Bombas sock company and continues to receive close to fifty thousand pairs per year.
Information regarding each organization will remain on existing websites yet shared on social media.
A new website and combined social media account will be developed in the next year for the merged organization.
For more information on Susie's Coats for Kids, visit www.susiescoats.org. Hannah's Socks can be found at www.hannahssocks.org.
For more information on Susie's Coats for Kids and Hannah's Socks Inc., contact Susie Perry, Executive Director, at 419-304-3296.
