The Helping Ninjas

10/01/2026

Helping Ninjas in Action! From packing fresh produce to loading cars, our youth are making a massive local impact! Helping Ninjas Nina, Layla, Charlie, Sara, Braden & others rolled up their sleeves to load cars for local families at the Merciful HELP Center. Youth ages of volunteers ranged from 8th grade to 12th grade from Carmel High School, Creekside Middle School, North Central High, & Westfield High School

Did you know that across the United States, roughly 14% of children—about 10 million kids—live below the federal poverty line? 📊 Nationally, children raised in single-parent households face a 4x higher risk of experiencing poverty compared to two-parent homes.

* 🌽 In Indiana: Roughly 16% of our state’s children (about 250,000 kids) live below the federal poverty line.

* In Central Indiana: 35% of all households struggle to afford basic necessities like food, housing, and childcare. Millions of working families earn just a bit too much to qualify for federal assistance, leaving them caught in a tough financial gap.

📍Spotlight on Local Impact: The Merciful HELP Center
Here are just a few ways Merciful Help Center is helping others:
* 🏠 4,200 Families Served: Annually supporting local households with food, clothing, and critical relief
* 📍 28.7% Local Outreach: Nearly 30% of the repeat families served have a direct Carmel address, proving that hardship can happen in any neighborhood.
* 🍏 1,200 Families Supported: Over a thousand families in Carmel rely on SNAP benefits, making the center’s Choice Food Pantry a vital lifeline.
* 💰 $200,000+ In Direct Aid: Providing over two hundred thousand dollars in annual emergency financial aid for rent, utilities, and temporary housing.

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09/30/2026

❤️ Honoring the bravery, dedication, and service of firefighters across the globe — and inspiring the next generation to say thank you. Join us in our efforts to create awareness about the importance of teaching our youth to honor and thank firefighters.

Learn more, link in bio: thankafirefighter.org ⬆️

Helping Ninjas Sidd & Leo & others show their support for Fire Fighter Appreciation Month by visiting local fire station & delivering thank you snacks and thank you cards with students at the Kindness Club in Carmel, IN.

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service of firefighters across the globe — and inspiring the next generation to say thank you. Join us in our efforts to create awareness about the importance of teaching our youth to honor and thank firefighters.

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09/10/2026

Small Orders, Big Impact

Helping Ninjas loaded up cars, filling vehicles with food and supplies that they may otherwise not be able to afford; every car packed was a reminder of how simple it is to show up, share a smile, and support one another as a community.

Hunger doesn’t always look the way you expect it to, and poverty exists right here in our own neighborhoods. Volunteering at the drive-through pantry gave an inside look into what it means to serve in your community directly.

Curbside Kindness: Helping Ninjas in Carmel, Indiana. A dedicated crew of Carmel High School students spent a Tuesday after school loading cars, connecting with neighbors, and serving on the front lines at the Merciful Help Center’s drive-through pantry.

When you think of a drive-through, you usually think of fast-food restaurants, or picking up your mid-day coffee, right? Our Helping Ninjas’ volunteer experience gave the typical drive thru a much different setting: a fast-moving, high-energy hub of community connection built on curbside kindness.

Each week, local Hamilton County families in-need, can use a “drive-through food and supply pantry” at the Merciful Help Center in Carmel Indiana. # #

The pantry relies on volunteers to operate, so our crew of Helping Ninjas stepped up to support the Merciful Help Center’s weekly drive-through pantry.

Small Orders, Big Impact

Helping Ninjas loaded up cars, filling vehicles with food and supplies that they may otherwise not be able to afford; every car packed was a reminder of how simple it is to show up, share a smile, and support one another as a community.

Hunger doesn’t always look the way you expect it to, and poverty exists right here in our own neighborhoods. Volunteering at the drive-through pantry gave an inside look into what it means to serve in your community directly.

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08/27/2026

Scan the QR code to download the Helping Ninjas Sticker App for $0.99, and support the cause. 100% of the profits will go toward flood recovery efforts, Every download, purchase, and share can make a difference.

Scan. Share. Support Indiana. ❤️

Helping Ninjas will donate 100% of their sales of the emoji sticker app to the following organizations  providing flood relief efforts in Indiana ⬇️

Emoji Sticker App Flood Relief Fundraising Beneficiaries:

- Merciful Help Center
- Hamilton County Harvest Food Bank
- American Red Cross (Help the Heartland) 

Recent flooding has impacted families, homes, businesses, roads, and our community right here in Carmel, Indiana. We’re doing what we can to help our neighbors recover. Link to donate in Linktree in bio — must purchase sticker app to donate! Look in bio for link tree or search Helping Ninjas in Apple App Store ⬆️

Your donations will:
Helping local families and community members get back on their feet. Supplies, Repairing and restoring damaged homes; Replacing essential belongings and items lost or damaged in the floods; Supporting cleanup, repairs, and other recovery needs

05/21/2026

05/21/2026

Hi, I’m Leo Berry & I am supporting BOLD, Inc. because I saw first hand how dance can bring joy, confidence, and connection to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities when I first volunteered at BOLD. I want to help raise money so more participants can experience the benefits of ballroom dance, therapy, social interaction, and performance opportunities.

Teens For Bold invite you to help us help others by donating to Benefits of Learning to Dance.

➡️ Donate online today! Link to donate:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/teens-for-bold

05/19/2026

A local 13-year-old is turning popsicles into hope for families battling cancer. For years, Lilian Moore has raised money for breast cancer research while supporting her mother's 11-year fight with stage four breast cancer!

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Donate here: https://donate.metavivor.org/fundraiser/5475100

05/18/2026

You can help! ❤️💸➡️ Link to donate online via Zeffy in comments! Meet the Teens For Bold Leadership Team

As classmates and friends, we are collectively working together to on a this fundraising initiative: TEENS FOR BOLD. Our leadership team members are students at Carmel Clay High School.

Helping Ninjas joins TEEN FOR BOLD fundraising initiative.

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05/15/2026

I’m Leo Berry & I am supporting BOLD because I saw first hand how dance can bring joy, confidence, and connection to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. I want to help raise money so more participants can experience the benefits of ballroom dance, therapy, social interaction, and performance opportunities.

We invite you to help us help BOLD by donating.

I believe that we each have a responsibility to help each other. Especially those that can’t always help themselves, or have the means to do so. Helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to experience the therapeutic benefits of ballroom dance is the mission behind Carmel, Indiana non profit: Benefits of Learning Dance Inc (BOLD). That coupled with volunteer opportunities for youth of all ages to also have a chance to help others aligns with the mission of Helping Ninjas to inspire youth to help others and our planet, and provide opportunities to do so. BOLD is a Carmel not-for-profit that turns joy into something real, giving the intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) community the chance to learn ballroom dance, build confidence, and connect through movement.

I have joined with eight fellow classmates to start a fundraising initiative: TEENS FOR BOLD. Myself, Leo Berry and founder, Remy Hollingsworth along with HC Wang, Ethan Morgel, Benny Winger, Knox Leimer, Brady Bales and Sergio Aleman.

BOLD FOR TEENS goal is to raise ten thousand dollars by the end of AUGUST 2026. Our team will donate the $10,000 to BOLD and sponsor a table at the BOLD Dance Gala on November 6th.

BOLD’s founder, Sean Gehlhausen, has the long-term goal of getting ballroom dance officially recognized and state-funded as a therapeutic physical activity, like equestrian riding is for therapy.

Carmel student, Remy Hollingsworth, decided to start Teens For Bold to help being inspired upon volunteering at BOLD: “Some of the people closest to me have IDD. The first time we watched a BOLD Dance session, you could just see it on their faces. Pure joy. Like nothing else in the world mattered.”