Please Help Provide a Safe Habor for Infants

     

                 The Capital Diaper Bank of Virginia is proud to partner with Safe Harbor, a confidential shelter for abused women and children in Richmond. Since 2000, women and their children have received shelter, counseling, support, and find help with legal, medical, emotional and work needs at Safe Harbor. Capital Diaper Bank regularly provides much needed diaper assistance to the residents at Safe Harbor, but we need your help! Due to a recent increase in the number of mothers with infants at Safe Harbor, in addition to overall need in our community, our diaper supply is quickly dwindling. To give you an idea of how great the need is in our community, The Capital Diaper Bank has already distributed 27,138 diapers in the last 2 years. Please help us meet this "hidden" need for the infants in our community. There are several ways you can help;

Host a Diaper Drive
At School
A diaper drive can be a great way for students to learn about goal setting, marketing skills and organization. It is also a good tool to show children they can make a difference in their community.
• Collect pennies or dimes to be used to buy diapers or make a donation to CDB.
• Host special events, like a dance or a bake sale, with proceeds going to CDB.
• Encourage contests and challenges as a fun way between grades and classes or faculty and students to raise funds to purchase diapers.
• Throw a party or provide a special privilege for the class that collects the most diapers or funds.
At Work
• Encourage departmental competitions.
• Consider corporate fund matching — we can easily estimate the dollar value of the diapers your company collects or we would be happy to purchase diapers for you at wholesale.
• Depending on your business, have the company donate a certain amount of money for each new account opened during the drive or for each new unit of sales, etc.
• Promote the cause and the drive in your corporate newsletter or send out information with paychecks, flyers, etc.
Donate
Please consider making a monetary donation to support CDB. A diaper costs $0.25-0.30 — no amount is too small to donate to help the smallest and most vulnerable members of our community.
Checks can be made to Capital Diaper Bank and mailed to:
P.O. Box 4255
Richmond, VA 23220
For more information about how you can help, or to donate online, please visit the Capital Diaper Bank website at www.capitaldiaperbank.org