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About Helping Ninjas
Any child can join the Helping Ninjas.
Helping Ninjas, Inc. is a registered U.S. not-for profit organization. Membership to join is free. Helping Ninjas is an ongoing open-enrollment.
From acts of help at home to school to in your community every act, small or large, helps make the world a better place and by doing acts of help, is the only requirement to become Helping Ninja.
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ZOOM PARTIES
Helping Ninjas hosts monthly Zoom parties for all Helping Ninja youth across the globe! We have Helping Ninjas in Europe and across forty-one states. Connect with other like-minded youth and learn how to help the planet and each other.
I’m supporting BOLD because I saw first hand how dance can bring joy, confidence, and connection to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
By Leo Berry
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.
TEENS FOR BOLD volunteering at BOLD
I have joined with six fellow friends and 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.
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.
I’m 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.
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. [1]
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.”
As classmates and friends we are collectively working together to on a this fundraising initiative: TEENS FOR BOLD.
We invite you to help us help BOLD by donating!
Teens For Bold Leadership Team:
Leo BerryRemy Hollingsworth HC WangBenny WingerKnox LeimerEthan Morgel
What is BOLD? Based in Camel, BOLD, Inc. is a registered nonprofit organization that teaches ballroom dance to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and it provides physical and recreational therapy, social interaction, and music engagement.
Instruction in ballroom dance movements and techniques
Engagement in regular opportunities to practice dance through organized social dancing sessionsEngagement in regular opportunities to practice dance through organized social dancing sessions
Performances of choreographed group dance formations at dance workshops and events
Improves the health and wellness of BOLD participants.
Helping Ninjas joins efforts to help. For just $1.00 you can help us help others through BOLD. Purchase the Helping Ninja emoji sticker App now thru the end of May 2026 and all proceeds will be donated to TEEN FOR BOLD fundraiser.
ClicK HereTO BE DIRECTED TO THE APPLE APP Store to purchase Helping Ninja Sticker App and help TEENS FOR BOLD.
HOW YOUR DONATION WILL HELP BOLD:
Opportunities for BOLD participants to perform locally and around the state.
Subsidize the cost of performance attire for BOLD participants and volunteers.
Development and implementation of a volunteer training program focused both on ballroom dance instruction and on providing awareness and understanding of our population.
Development of a therapeutic ballroom dance curriculum designed specifically for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Dance studio rental for group classes, dance parties, new choreography development, and events.
Operational costs such as supplies, technology fees, and insurance costs.
Teens For Bold Goal is to sponsor a table at the 2026 BOLD Dance Celebration!
Join our Helping Ninja emoji contest and help our planet!
Helping Ninjas Emoji Sticker Contest
Helping Ninjas are choosing new Helping Ninja emojis for our Helping Ninja Emoji Aticker app in the Apple App Store! And yours could be next!
Each month Helping Ninjas uses its proceeds to fund other Helping Ninjas projects and/or donates a portion of the profits from other charitable organization!
The Helping Ninja bandana is a band of fabric, a common thread that ties us all together, despite differences of age, status, gender, race, ethnic or economic background, making our world a better place through kindness and selfless acts – whether it be helping the planet, each other or oneself.
Share your Helping Ninja Emojis with us!
To sign-up for the Helping Ninja emoji contest, submit the form below:
How does the emoji art contest work?
At the end month, the Helping Ninjas will vote via our monthly Helping Ninja Zoom Party! We will announce it the first of each month!
No limit of submissions!
Children can enter as many Helping Ninja emoji submissions as they want!
Each month Helping Ninjas uses its proceeds to fund other Helping Ninjas projects and/or donates a portion of the profits from other charitable organization!
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Join our efforts to fight hunger and food waste. Contact us to join our efforts to educate, inspire and make a difference.
47.4 million Americans experienced hunger. This means that they have difficulty accessing affordable, nutritious food.
Join our efforts today. To sign-up for the Helping Ninja fight hunger and food waste, submit the form below:
Defining Food Waste
Food waste is a huge problem and has a direct negative impact on the environment. Helping Ninjas invites you to do your part and spread awareness about this prominent and often overlooked issue.Raise your environmental awareness by learning about food waste and what you can do to curb it in your own home and in the community . Reducing food waste starts in the home, and you can make a difference by taking one small step at a time.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FOA) defines food waste as, “discarding of food that is safe and nutritious for human consumption along the entire food supply chain, from primary production to end household consumer level.”
U.S. Food Waste Statistics
According to the EPA, the U.S. discards some 37 million tons of food each year—a third of all the food it produces—yet just five percent of that is composted. All the rest is piled into landfills or incinerated. More food fills in these trash pits than any other material, says the EPA, constituting 21 percent of all of the country’s municipal solid waste.
Along with the wasted food goes all the water, energy, pesticides, fertilizer, labor and other inputs that go into growing, shipping, processing, marketing and preparing it. When landfilled, wasted food also generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
How are you addressing food waste and hunger in your community?
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By Skyler, Age 12, February 20125, Heping Ninja, Indiana
Today my brothers and I went to Second Helpings with our mom. We helped the chef by opening boxes and prepping for the meal that they will prepare in the morning.
The first thing we did when we got there was go the pantry and get the boxes. Then we helped the chef by pouring the continents of the pasta boxes into the food bins.
Helping Ninjas is always looking for people to volunteer with us and to join the our mission to become highly skilled at helping the world. Contacts us today! info@helpingninjas.com or DM us on Instagram, Facebook or X.
Helping Ninjas just launched our initiative Zero Waste, an effort to reduce waste sent to landfills and educate children on the importance of teaching our youth how to help the planet.
Helping Ninjas is asking all youth to participate by collecting at home hard to recycle waste streams as well as strive to make zero-waste choices each day. See more details of how to participate below.
Go Zero Waste Today
To sign up for the Helping Ninjas Zero Waste initiative please fill out the form below.
How to Go Zero Waste
Zero waste is a set of practices that aims to reduce waste by reusing, recycling, and composting. The goal is to keep waste out of landfills and the environment.
How It Works
Use reusable bags and containers
Buy products that are reusable or come in reusable packaging, Composting food scraps, and Using reusable menstrual products. Buy fewer things, buy in bulk, and buy reusable products
Repair, repurpose, and reuse items
Recycle waste through composting, anaerobic digestion, or animal feed
Design products and processes to avoid waste
Conserve resources like energy and natural materials
Plant something; reduce carbon pollution by reducing methane emissions and adding carbon to soil
Save money: Buying fewer things and reusing items can save money
How Does it Work?
What makes something locally recyclable depends on whether your local recycling company can make a profit recycling it. If the cost of collecting and processing the waste is lower than the value of the resulting raw material, it will likely be locally recyclable. If the costs are higher, then it likely won’t be.
The good news is that most trash can technically be recycled. That’s where Terry Cycle comes in.
Helping Ninjas is using Terra Cycle Zero Waste Boxes to help our ninjas find a solution and help to solve the problem of waste.
TerraCycle can recycle the hard-to-recycle because they work with brands, retailers, and other stakeholders who fund the recycling process.
After we recycle the waste into raw material, it’s sold to manufacturing companies who produce the end product and complete the recycling journey. These end products may include outdoor furniture and decking, plastic shipping pallets, watering cans, storage containers and bins, tubes for construction applications, flooring tiles, playground surface covers, athletic fields, and more!
Helping Ninjas youth are collecting waste to fill Zero Waste boxes to ship to Terra Cycle so that they can save it from going to the landfills!
There are more than 2,600 MSW landfills in the United States and more projected for coming years. This map provides a snapshot of the operational project and candidate landfill counts by state. According to the EPA, the United States generated approximately 292.4 million tons of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in 2024, which translates to roughly 4.9 pounds of trash per person per day.
Per capita waste: 4.9 pounds per person per day
Total waste: 292.4 million tons of waste
As of September 2024, this table shows the counts of operational projects, candidate landfills and all landfills by state, as contained in the LMOP Database.
Join our efforts, become a Helping Ninjas and join our movement to educate, address and celebrate all areas of positive impact on our environment. We encourage our community members to post, videos, photos depicting how you or your business is helping the planet. Helping Ninjas is geared to educate youth on ways to help, and what better way for them to see is by example.
Post and tag us!
Any effort or education on how to help our planet— including all species of life, land & aquatic animals and wildlife, soil, water, air— any news story, news feed, post or photo you may have seen – can be a shared learning tool for others, and help to inspire change! Example posts: a picture of how or a business is helping the environment. Such as photos of Eco-Friendly Straws, Eco-Friendly Utensils, To-Go Boxes, etc.
Any efforts to recycle, composting, reducing waste, conserving energy and/or supporting renewable energy. Promoting urban farming, such as buying local, or any sustainable environment efforts or goals.
Community Outreach and/or charitable acts of helping the community or planet. Any organizations and business efforts to help the environment –is worth sharing!
