HOLD A REMAINING HEART TODAY
Give hope and survival needs to a local student
The Hold My Heart: Love Wins Campaign was created to connect our community to the local registered McKinney-Vento students and to help meet the needs they have throughout the school year while protecting their privacy.
The McKinney-Vento students are considered homeless or without secure housing and this federal act protects the privacy of the student and the family during the crisis.
The Hike Kidz Foundation is partnered with the Warren County Public Schools "Project Hope Team" and helps raise the funds needed to help the student through this crisis while still attending school, daily.
On October 10th Harmony Hike & Emily Beck Marlow unveil the Hold my heart gallery at the Stonebranch Center for the Arts.
Remaining Hearts to hold gallery
How to sponsor a heart
What the funds go towards
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Immediate crisis needs (at discretion of Project hope Team)
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Clothing through Boxes of Basics Partnership
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Sporting & Extra Curricular Costs
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Pillow, blanket and air mattress
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Emergency Food boxes
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Emergency Shelter
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Trauma Care kits
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Field trip money
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House care kits
Each heart sponsorship is $600 for the year
Choose a remaining heart you would like to sponsor
Choose your payment choice (monthly or one time payment)
Choose the name you wish to be displayed on your heart
Pick up your selected heart to hold and take with you
The funds are given to the Warren County Public Schools and are managed by the Project Hope Team.
Q & A
Will my funds go to the child that painted the heart
Will cash be given
What if the heart i chose is taken
Who will decide where the funds go
Will be know where the funds were spent
Will we receive feedback
How do you decide where the funds go
What is Mckinney Vento Act
Who manages the MckINEEY VENTO STUDENTS
Where does the money go
Who makes the final decision on money spent
How long will the art piece be at Stonebranch
How do I choose the name to go on my heart
Who came up with the hold my heart idea
Question & Answers
THE STORY BY VISUAL TIMELINE
Love is on the way: Hold My Heart, The Love Wins Campaign was thoughtfully created with the McKinney-Vento, Foster and Unaccounted for students in mind with a team of people who have the HEART, PASSION and DEVOTION to help these local students to thrive, EQUALLY, no matter what it takes.
The Hearts are dedicated to the Project Hope Team, who works on the frontlines with these students everyday.
BEHIND THE SCENES
A PROCESS OF LOVE
Media
Disco video
Love wins social
Schoolboard video
Photos and videos of articles
The Quilt
Hold My Heart
The Love Wins Campaign
The Hold My Heart: Love Wins Campaign was created to connect our community to the local registered McKinney-Vento students and to help meet the needs they have throughout the school year while protecting their privacy.
The McKinney-Vento students are considered homeless or without secure housing and this federal act protects the privacy of the student and the family during the crisis.
The Hike Kidz Foundation is partnered with the Warren County Public Schools "Project Hope Team" and helps raise the funds needed to help the student through this crisis while still attending school, daily.
The cost to sponsor a heart is $600 per year. The funds are given to the Warren County Public Schools and are managed by the Project Hope Team.
The funds will help to pay for
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Immediate crisis needs (at discretion of Project hope Team)
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Holiday items through Hike Kidz Foundation & Play Favorites
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Clothing through Boxes of Basics Partnership
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Sporting & Extra Curricular Costs
-
Pillow, blanket and air mattress
-
Emergency Food boxes
-
Emergency Shelter
-
Trauma Care kits
-
Field trip money
-
House care kits
The Vision
The Vision of the Hold My Heart: Love Wins Campaign is to connect us all to the awareness of our most vulnerable students and to do it through LOVE and ART.
The Process
Each student was given two hearts to paint, one for the sponsor to hold at home, one for the student and community to see. When you choose a heart to sponsor you get to hold the small heart. The Heart you sponsor will have your name on it, or the name you choose to honor.
The Hearts Art Piece which will be displayed at Stonebranch Center for the Arts to honor the children and their artwork. The art piece will be unveiled October 10th, 2025 at the Stonebranch Center for the Arts on Main Street in Front Royal and will remain there until next years hearts are unveiled. The new hearts will be first seen at the Dueling Disco event on July 27th 2026.
The Hope is to use this piece of art to further connect the community through art to raise awareness for the McKinney-Vento students and Project Hope Team and the inspiring messages that art and children can bring to us.
In addition, the parents and children can see who is "holding their heart" and feel inspired by connection and know they have someone who was connected directly through the child's work of art.
PLEASE HELP US COMPLETE THIS MISSION
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