The Grand Happiness Foundation was founded in 2011 as part of Grand Home Furnishings’s 100th anniversary celebration. Grand spent the year working closely with organizations, providing furniture and mattresses or volunteer time. It was an honor for us to assist these organizations, many of whom aren’t in the spotlight and all work hard year around with limited budgets.
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A Grand Rock-a-bye

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As August Worley softly moved back and forth in a rocking chair, she held baby Isabella near. The light rocking motion prompted Isabella to slowly close her precious little eyes and fall into a sleep, dreaming of special baby dreams.

August Worley and Baby Isabella

Grand recognizes that a mother being able to rock her newborn to sleep is a very personal and touching act, so the Bristol store was able to gift the New Life Birthing Center at Regional Medical Center with brand new rocking chairs. Grand was also able to team up with the greatest gift-giver there is – Santa Claus! He arrived at the birthing center to help spread holiday cheer to moms and their little ones. (more…)

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Bowers Hospice House of Beckley Gets a Clearer Outlook

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It’s hard to believe how quickly our year of Grand Gestures is going and as we’ve gotten further along, we’ve had more opportunities to get to know the organizations and provide them with service as well as furniture. As we said in our Barrett Early Learning Center post recently, sometimes simply showing up with tools and eagerness to help is the best way to be of service. For our Beckley team, that tool was a weed eater—lots of weed eaters!

After seeking out a recipient for their next Gesture, Beckley store manager David Chinn identified the Hospice of Southern West Virginia as a worthy recipient with a real need for some volunteers. The hospice served more than 600 patients last year providing end-of-life care, including those cared for at the Bowers Hospice House, a 12-bed facility on Cranberry Drive, nestled in a hilly area that was formerly a coal camp. (more…)

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The Register Herald: Grand Home Furnishings volunteers for Hospice

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

 

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WVNSTV.com: Grand Home Furnishings Helps Out Community

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Grand Home Furnishings Helps Out Community
Posted Monday, August 1, 2011 ; 06:41 PM

Grand Home Furnishings is providing people with more than just quality furniture.

By Merrily McAuliffe

BECKLEY – As part of their Grand Home Furnishings 100th year anniversary, employees with Grand Home have provided four local businesses with donations and acts of community service throughout this year. It’s all part of what they call “100 Grand Gestures”.

Those with the group did some lawn work for Bowers Hospice House in Beckley on Monday.

“They’re out here on their day off, they’re working in the hot sun and this is not an easy job,” Bowers Hospice House P.R. Director Leigh-Ann Long said. “It means so much.”

The weed eating at Bowers Hospice House was the final good deed on the “100 Grand Gestures” list. Other gestures consisted of furniture donations to the United Way, the Women’s Resource Center and Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital.

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The Family Birth Center at Norton Community Health Gets a Special Delivery

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At the Norton Community Health Family Birth Center, in Norton, Virginia, special deliveries are a fairly regular occurrence. However, the folks at Grand’s Wise store still managed to surprise them with a delivery of their own.

The Norton Community Health Center is a nonprofit healthcare facility that serves a 29-county, four-state region. Recently, the Family Birth Center underwent a much-needed renovation that the staff was extremely excited about. “We are so proud of the renovated birthing center,” said Liz Sluss, director of obstetrics at NCH.

Wise Grand sales associate Ashley Bolling

The staff at Grand wanted to top things off by surprising them with a dozen brand new wooden rocking chairs. Our team knew that any furniture in the rooms has to be easy to sterilize, but they also really wanted them to have something befitting of the beautiful new rooms and the very special events that they facilitate. The wooden rockers seemed like the perfect fit. (more…)

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www.msha.com: Grand Furniture donates rockers to Norton Community Hospital

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04/25/2011

NORTON, Va. – The Norton Community Hospital (NCH) Family Birth Center received a different kind of special delivery on April 21. Management from Grand Furniture in Wise delivered 12 new wooden rocking chairs to the Family Birth Center, compliments of the Grand Happiness Foundation.

“We are celebrating our 100th year in business this year, and are pleased to give these rockers to the Norton Community Hospital Family Birth Center as a way of giving back to our community,” said Bob Collier, manager of the Grand store in Wise.

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Grand Delivers Comfort to Pediatric Patients and Families at Beckley ARH

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Our Beckley Grand Home Furnishings team has aimed their support at a very worthy group as they dig into the first of their efforts for the Grand Happiness Foundation.  “When Grand started the Grand Happiness Foundation, each store was challenged to take its community role and charitable giving a step farther,” explained David Chinn, Manager of Grand Home Furnishings Beckley store. 
 
“Our team has put together ideas to service our healthcare community, starting with Beckley Appalachian. The families in the pediatrics unit are there under incredibly painful and taxing circumstances; we hope supplying comfortable furniture will at minimum relieve a bit of their physical stress.”

A Grand Delivery

Ted Weigel, West Virginia Marketing and Service Excellence Manager of Appalachian Regional Healthcare, explained, “We’re a nonprofit hospital, and right now healthcare is very challenging. Every day we’re fighting to find money for extras, because patient supplies and staff are things we have to take care of first.”

A credit to the Grand name, Mr. Chinn showed the hospital staff exactly what we mean when we say we want to help. “David had a number of suggestions, and a tape measure. We appreciate him taking time to come here, make suggestions, and measure, instead of just sending us furniture,” said Weigel. (more…)

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WVVA.com: A Grand donation for a Beckley Hospital

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BECKLEY (WVVA)-An answered prayer for the Beckley ARH Hospital.

The non-profit hospital was in need of new furniture. Now thanks to a generous furniture store, their worries are over.

Grand Home Furnishings donated over a dozen pieces of furniture this morning. All this is going in the pediatric and cancer wards for patients.

The store manager of Grand decided giving back to the community was much more valuable than a sale.

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FOX59 WVNS-TV: Furniture Donated to Beckley Hospital

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Grand Returns to Ronald McDonald House Charlottesville

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Well, as promised after our first delivery earlier this year, we recently made another trip to our friends at the Ronald McDonald House of Charlottesville with more furniture and mattresses. “We are always happy to see their truck,” said Rita Ralston, Executive Director of the RMH Charlottesville.

Furniture & mattresses for The Ronald McDonald House of Charlottesville

The organization has a houseful of families almost every night whose seriously-ill or injured children are at the nearby hospital for care, and they’ve recently been working on updates that will increase the comfort and restfulness of their guests. After donating a roomful of new mattresses in January, we returned last Thursday morning with more new mattresses and box springs, as well as new kitchen and sitting area furniture provided by La-Z-Boy. (more…)

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