Amazon is teaming up with the nationwide nonprofit Baby2Baby to assist present deprived youngsters with diapers, clothes and all the fundamental requirements that each little one deserves.
With current shortages and the rising costs of diapers, components, and different household necessities, Amazon is proud to assist Baby2Baby distribute 1.5 million diapers and 1.5 million wipes to households in want. The work is being completed via partnerships with native diaper banks, childcare facilities, and household useful resource facilities throughout the U.S.
“Our group engagement work is all about affect. Within the final two years, we’ve supported greater than 3,000 nonprofit and group organizations all through the U.S., similar to Baby2Baby,” stated Brian Kenner, Amazon’s director of group engagement. “This partnership will present for the supply of practically 3 million provides (diapers, wipes, and different necessities) to households in want via extremely expert nonprofits throughout the nation. We’re dedicated to being an energetic companion to our native communities.”
Within the final 11 years, Baby2Baby has distributed greater than 270 million gadgets—greater than another group of its variety—to youngsters in homeless shelters, home violence applications, foster care, hospitals, and underserved faculties, in addition to to youngsters who’ve misplaced every little thing within the wake of a catastrophe. This 12 months alone, Baby2Baby will attain greater than 1 million youngsters within the U.S., in over 200 cities throughout all 50 states.
“We’re so proud to proceed our impactful partnership with Amazon and leverage their unmatched transport capabilities to additional our mission of offering the necessities that each little one deserves,” stated Baby2Baby co-CEOs Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof. “This 12 months alone, we’ve requests for over 1 billion diapers for the households we serve. Amazon’s beneficiant contribution will assist us to ship thousands and thousands of diapers and wipes to essentially the most weak communities throughout the nation and ease this burden on mother and father.”
Baby2Baby has been utilizing all the sources at its disposal to assist households in want—together with manufacturing its personal diapers to supply them at 80% lower than the retail price. The work helped earn Baby2Baby the No. 1 spot on Quick Firm’s World’s Most Modern Corporations Record.
Amazon’s collaboration with Baby2Baby will enable the group to achieve new households in want this 12 months via native nonprofit companions in Dallas, Nashville, Southern California, New York Metropolis, South Florida, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Detroit.