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Our mission is to provide those less fortunate with hats collected at hockey game hat tricks or by individual donation. We wash, sanitize, and restore the hats to near new condition. These recycled hats, which help preserve our environment, are then distributed to deserving organizations and mission efforts.


Places we have donated hats

In the Pittsburgh Area:

  • Auberle, - Helping Troubled Children and Families to Heal Themselves
  • Holy Family Institute, - Restoring Hope, Transforming Life
  • Imperial Food Pantry, for local families
  • Pressley Ridge, - Helping troubled and troubling children find joy in life become healthy and find a place in society where they can be a success.
  • Residential Services Inc., - Enhancing the lives of adults ages 18 - 65 with disabilities
  • Homestead United Presbyterian Church, for community clothes closet and for Guatemala mission trip
  • Dominican Republic - Bellfield Presbyterian Church Mission Trip
  • Sacred Heart Catholic Church, for community clothes closet
  • Sonshine Community Ministries, - A place of hope for the hurting and poor of McKeesport.
  • St. Columbkille Catholic Church, for care packages
  • Western Allegheny Community Library, winter hats for the community

Around the World:

  • Afghanistan, soldiers from the Pittsburgh area being deployed
    - Operation Troop Appreciation
  • Amazon River, Medical Services
    - Parkview Church Mission Trip
  • Cost Rica, Eye care and medical services for people of Alajuelita
    - Parkview Church Mission Trip
  • Dominican Republic, children of the village of Margarita, Hato Mayor compound
    - Mars Alliance Church Mission Trip
  • Guatemala, children of Zoma Extrema Youth Center
    - Union Presbyterian Church Mission Trip
  • Haiti, Orphans in Aquin and school children in Basin Caiman
    - Haiti H20
  • Nicaragua, children of Managua
    - Christ United Church Mission Trip

Hats Donated

Hats Distributed
Hats Recieved
6,249
6,701

H4H News

Hat of the Month

This "My First Penguin's Cap" was thrown at Sydney Crosby's 12/29/2010 Hat Trick that was subsequently recalled when it was determined that the third goal was tipped into the net by Matt Cooke's stick. Although the Hat Trick was recalled, approximately 125 hats were tossed onto the ice in celebration!

Spotlight Organization

Operation Troop Appreciation
"Thank you to Kristen Holloway Querriera, for providing us the means to give hats to soldiers being deployed from the Pittsburgh area. We hope the hats affirm your mission, "To build and sustain the morale of deployed troops, enabling them to complete their missions with the assurance that the American public supports and appreciates their selfless service and daily sacrifices."
- Mike Behme

Boy Scout Troop 830, Clinton Pennsylvania

Special Thanks

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