Hannah's Helping
Hands

Project Description

Hannah's Helping Hands Foundation is the Hidalgo family's foundation, launched by Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo in South Bend in 2024. It serves young people in South Bend, Indiana, and the Delaware Valley through community outreach and financial literacy — inspiring preeminence on and off the court.

GrayWorks rebuilt hannahshelpinghands.org as a single scroll story that plays like one possession: defense turns into offense, and offense turns into giving. Hannah's studio cutout stands between two rows of a giant condensed name, each chapter arrives in a new team color like a scoreboard flip, a 132-frame image sequence scrubs her up-and-under move frame by frame, and ESPN clips open in an in-page film player. Every stat, quote, and event on the page traces to a sourced research file, and anything the foundation has not confirmed is held back rather than guessed.

A Get in Touch page adds a message form that runs through a small, dependency-free mail service to SendGrid — a branded notice to the foundation and a branded confirmation to the visitor, guarded by a honeypot and a per-IP rate limit. The site was tested on desktop, tablet, and mobile, with JavaScript off, and with reduced motion, and ships as lightweight nginx and Node containers behind a TLS reverse proxy, including the cutover of the foundation's own domain with its Microsoft 365 email left untouched.