Effective July 1, 2023, local community service organizations Susie’s Coats for Kids and Hannah’s Socks will merge to create 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.
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. Susie’s Coats has provided all of this to children. With the addition of Hannah’s Socks, we can provide another basic 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. They 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,” said Robin Laird, Hannah’s Socks’ 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 a hundred thousand pairs per year.
Both organizations will keep their websites and social media accounts, and share information on both sites.
A new website will be developed in the next year for the merged organization.
For more information, visit susiescoats.org, hannahs socks.org or contact Ms. Perry at 419-304-3296.
