Share A Smile is a Michigan-based non-profit charitable organization founded in 1999 that actively works “to make a difference one person at a time.”
Our charitable organization is organized to serve people in need in two ways:
- Providing direct assistance through bill payment to individuals and families struggling to obtain the basic needs of life
- Creating and funding programs targeted at serving specific needs in the communities we serve
Share A Smile focuses its efforts on helping:
- seniors
- women in transition (those fleeing domestic violence or reentering the work force due to the death of a spouse or divorce)
- special needs children
- chronic or terminally ill people
- people with disabilities
- any individual or family struggling to maintain or obtain their basic human needs such as shelter, warmth, clothing, medication, utilities
Many of the individuals and families who seek assistance from Share A Smile are experiencing economic hardship for the first time in their lives - due to illness, unemployment or natural disaster - and do not know where to turn.
Share A Smile works with other nonprofits in the community whose missions and clients served parallel ours and receives referrals from these agencies on behalf of their clients.
Requests for assistance are reviewed for completeness and to make certain they meet our criteria by Share A Smile’s Executive Director and then by the Grant Making Review Committee. This committee meets monthly and closely examines all requests meeting the criteria for assistance, passing its recommendations to the board of directors for final review.
Board of Directors
| Mark Hammond
Founder
Charles C. Kirkpatrick
President
Kirstin Hammond
Vice President
Carrie Langdon
Treasurer
Marie Ralko
Director
Charlie Johnson
Director
Rosalinda Hunt
Director
Frank D'Angelo
Director
Robert Lalicki
Director
Christiane McKinley
General Counsel
Jennifer Chapdelaine
Secretary |
Executive Director : Susan Moscareillo
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