Sammamish Rotary Store Front Drive

On Saturday, May 18th, the Sammamish Rotary set-up a booth outside each of the Sammamish Safeway entrances to collect new store-bought high-needs items. As shoppers entered Safeway, they were handed a shopping list of items that could purchase while shopping, and drop-off on their way out. 

The Sammamish Rotary collected over $4,200 worth of in-kind goods during a five hour period!  Donations included:

• Over 2,500 diapers
• Almost 100 packages of wipes
• 72 cans of formula
• More than 24 containers of baby shampoo
• New baby bottles, pacifiers, diaper cream, toothpaste, baby powder
• Baby equipment such as strollers, car seats, booster chairs and Pack ‘N Plays
• Plus much, much, more!

 

  

These items will be put to good use and given out quickly to the over 500 children we are serving every week!

Thank-you so much to the Sammamish Rotary for coordinating this amazing donation collection event!

Are you interested in hosting a store-front drive for EBC?  Contact Cori Benson at communityhelpers@babycorner.org , or call 425-865-0234 x705 for more details!

GiveBIG is today!

Click here on May 15th between midnight – midnight if you believe in the cause of Eastside Baby Corner, and want to see us continue to serve over 500 children each week by providing clothing, food, school supplies, and much more to children and families in our local area.

Or if you want to share our donation page with family and friends directly just copy the link:

http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/EastsideBabyCorner.aspx

Help spread the word:

• Use your Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog, and any other social media platform you use to share our donation page and GiveBIG information
• See if your office or company matches donations, and your initial donation could potentially be matched…TWICE!

GiveBIG is May 15th!

Wednesday, May 15^th is going to be one of the largest giving days in King County history and Eastside Baby Corner is excited to be a part of it! On Wednesday, May 15^th from midnight – midnight, any donations you make to Eastside Baby Corner through our page on The Seattle Foundation website will be proportionally matched! By giving during GiveBIG, you will be stretching your donation and helping even more kids thrive by keeping them fed, warm, and safe.

Last year you gave generously, contributing an astonishing $10,080 in just one day! With careful use of your gifts, EBC stretched that money to provide 20,000 diaper changes, keep 85 toddlers and school kids secure in new car seats, and supplied safe beds for 50 babies. Thank you!

When you donate to EBC during the GiveBIG event, your gift will go even farther to help local children living without adequate shelter, food, or clothing.

How to Donate: Click here on May 15th between midnight – midnight if you believe in the cause of Eastside Baby Corner, and want to see us continue to serve over 500 children each week by providing clothing, food, school supplies, and much more to children and families in our local area.

Or if you want to share our donation page with family and friends directly just copy the link:

http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/EastsideBabyCorner.aspx

Help spread the word:

• Use your Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, Blog, and any other social media platform you use to share our donation page and GiveBIG information
• See if your office or company matches donations, and your initial donation could potentially be matched…TWICE!

About GiveBIG: GiveBIG is a community-wide giving challenge created by The Seattle Foundation that will increase the size of your donation to Eastside Baby Corner. Now in its 3nd year, this one-day, online charitable giving event will rally together our community on behalf of the amazing non-profit organizations in King County.

Win a Golden Ticket! Throughout GiveBIG, donors will be chosen at random from all donations made up to the time of the drawing. The winner will have an additional $1,000 given in their name to Eastside Baby Corner! Plus other fun prizes!

Volunteer GROUPS

Welcome to Day 3 of National Volunteer Appreciation Week!

If you missed out on Monday’s introduction to National Volunteer Appreciation Week, make sure you pop over and check it out HERE.  Yesterday, we discussed community volunteers; if you missed that post make sure you check it out HERE.   

Each month Eastside Baby Corner welcomes a number of groups through the hub doors.  These groups range from corporate groups, girl, boy and cub scout troops, school groups and many different churches.  We love getting groups in to volunteer because they bring great camaraderie and fun to the volunteer shift!

Unlike our community volunteers who mainly sort and organize the clothing donations, our groups that come in often get a special project!  Recent favorites include: reorganizing our clothing inventory, cleaning out storage units, checking and labeling expiration dates on baby food, moving inventory and much, much more!

Volunteers from Sagemont Church, sorting and labeling expiration dates on baby food jars.

Students from Eastside Prep came to volunteer during their Service Learning Day!

This Cub Scout Troop helped us pick-up donations from the Issaquah Highlands Self-Storage Unit and deliver them to the EBC hub!

We were so thankful to have a group from Expeditors and a group from the University of Washington help us tear up carpet!

Microsoft employees came to volunteer during the Microsoft Day of Caring! These guys are helping us sort, organize and edit our excess clothing inventory!

As was mentioned yesterday for safety and task accuracy reasons, we cannot have children under the age of 7 working in the warehouse.  (Remember 7-13 with direct adult supervision and 14+ can come alone!).  However, that doesn’t mean we don’t have special projects for them to do at home and then bring us their final product!

For instance, we get a lot of Daisy and Brownie Girl Scout Troops who want to volunteer at EBC, but because they’re too young they often either host a community drive or put together hair accessories or toothbrush & toothpaste kits.  We will welcome the younger kids into the warehouse to deliver their goods and for a tour!  So if you have a younger one who is interested in helping at EBC, you might think about one of these ideas!

The Kindergarten classes from St. Louise School collected items for EBC and then brought them to the Hub for a tour!

This young girl scout troop helped EBC by sorting socks!

If you are interested in bringing a group in to volunteer, please contact our Program/Volunteer Manager Madeline Fish (madelinef@babycorner.org).

If you are interested in hosting a community drive or participating in another activity with younger children, please contact Cori Benson (corib@babycorner.org).

 

Core Volunteer Shout-Outs!

• 14 YEARS of volunteering
  • Tracy Bury
  • Joy McMains
• 13 YEARS of volunteering
  • Teresa Lindo
  • Nancy Tochko
• 12 YEARS of volunteering
  • Tom Koeneman
• 11 YEARS of volunteering
  • Karen Rubin
  • Steve Tochko
• 10 YEARS of volunteering
  • Dave Herb
  • Edie Herb
  • Lanni Litsjo
  • Dick Scott

Thanks again to all of our awesome volunteers!

A New Year…A New Drop Off Site!

As the New Year is quickly approaching (where does the time go?) we are excited to announce a new off-site location. Our friends at Issaquah Highlands Self Storage are graciously donating a space for EBC to house an off-site collection site in the growing community of Issaquah Highlands. This is a fantastic opportunity for EBC to expand its reach for new donations and new donors. The donation site will open on December 1st, 2011.

If you have any storage needs and you live in the Issaquah Highlands area, please consider Issaquah Highlands Self Storage!

 

Hours for drop off are:

Monday-Saturday 9:30am-6:00pm

Sunday 9:30am-5:00pm

Where

NE High St. between Highlands Drive and 9th Avenue NE-right in front of the Issaquah Highlands Park & Ride.

What They Will Accept

Items that will be accepted are:

 Gently-used /new clothing and shoes for children, sizes newborn to 14

 Small toys, 11×17 inches or less in diameter, gently-used or new

 Packaged disposable diapers Learn more by calling EBC or go to: www .IssaquahHighlandsSelfStorage.com