Because every mom deserves quality postpartum care.
We’re so excited for this event hosted by the Sherwood Chamber of Commerce on November 3rd from 9- 11am.
We can’t wait to have friends from the community come and see our new space, and volunteer with us!
Mark your calendar. We hope to see you there!!
We’re so excited to be participating in this state wide fundraiser for a third time.
We are actively fundraising to be able to move into our very own space!
Why? Because we want to be able to have our local friends come and volunteer and pack gift boxes with us. And, we would love more storage space. We bulk order our supplies, and with more space we can order larger quantities at a time at more reduced rates.
We love participating in Earth Day Oregon because it highlights so many local nonprofits, while bringing the community together. This event is also great because it focuses on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
At In Kind Boxes, we focus on:
Maternal health, and the health of our children is directly impacted by our environment. We look forward to sharing more about this event with you via Instagram, and email.
We also want to say thank you to the following local businesses for supporting us during the event:
Business partners will be helping us fundraise by helping us shine a light on our work, and amplifying the message of Earth Day. Stay tuned for local events that you can participate in, in support of In Kind Boxes.
Local Events to watch for:
Thank you for supporting our work, and donating to In Kind Boxes!
We couldn’t do what we do without you.
~Maria Berglund, In Kind Boxes Founder
We were on NATIONAL Television!!
On March 17th, we had the honor of being on Good Morning America‘s GMA3 What You Need to Know. Click here to watch.
That day was a busy one, with orders, donations, emails and messages coming in.
Thank you to everyone who reached out to congratulate us on such a big milestone! It led to our biggest day of sales for the year!! We are so grateful to GMA3 for the opportunity to shine a light on our work.
Locally, we donated 20 postpartum boxes to Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center’s Women’s Clinic in Hillsboro, and 10 to Washington County’s Health and Human Services where they distribute boxes through a few of their programs serving new families in need.
We also have monthly commitments to donate boxes to families across the United States. These are through:
Activity:
We love being able to highlight moms making a positive impact on the world through out Instagram Live series “Mamas Making an Impact“. We had the pleasure of chatting with Delisa Wood, and learning more about her journey to starting 3 Moms Tribe.
We also got to connect with life coach Dr. Krystal Conner. If you haven’t heard of her, please go and check out Krystal’s podcast. We’ve shared in our Instagram stories about how much we enjoy it, and know you’ll find a lot of value in it too.
March 16th was Maternal Mental Health Advocacy Day. We partnered with 2020 Mom, Shade of Blue Project, and the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance to be a social media amplifier for the day.
We brought awareness to the lack of resources and support available for new moms, and how that needs to change. See our post here.
It was one of our most shared posts ever! Thank you to everyone who helped us get the word out about such an important issue.
Thank you:
Upcoming:
Earth Day Oregon, a state wide fundraiser, is happening in April!
We are so grateful for your support. We couldn’t do what we do without you!!
~Maria
We donate an average of 50 postpartum boxes a month, depending on the need of our local partners. Locally, we provided gift boxes to the Domestic Violence Resource Center and the Mother and Child Education Center.
For the second year in a row we helped our local school district celebrate staff appreciation week. We provided gift boxes to expecting and newly postpartum staff. We are so grateful for teachers, and how hard they work to make school special.
Outside of Oregon, boxes are shipped monthly through the following partnerships:
Activity:
Mapel Boutique hosted a Shop For a Cause fundraiser for us on February 10! 20% of full priced sales were donated back to In Kind. We’re grateful to everyone who shopped during the event.
Our Mamas Making an Impact series continued on Instagram. We met with Jenn Wirth from @momsmaternal health. She opened up and shared with us about her own journey with postpartum mental health. Jenn states the importance of asking for help when you need it. She also goes into a lot of detail about postpartum mood disorders. Click here to watch!
For Black History Month, we highlighted Black moms and women in history who made a positive impact on the world through reels on Instagram. We shared about Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Dr. Mayme Clayton, and Katherine Johnson. Find @inkindboxes on Instagram to learn more about these amazing women in Black history.
Upcoming:
We’re looking forward to participating in the Earth Day Oregon statewide fundraiser in April. We are excited to have 2 of our 3 partners confirmed- The Hungry Hero Dessert Co, and Fat Milo’s Family Kitchen. Oregon based businesses, we need your help! We need one more partner with us for this event. If you can help us, send an email to: info@inkindboxes.org
Thank you!
We couldn’t do what we do without you. Thank you for showing up for moms in need.
We started off the New Year with a bang, having our partnership with the Washington County District Attorney’s office featured in the Sherwood Gazette! Click the link to read the story, or go to the “Media Mentions” section of our website to find out when we’ve made the news!
If you know of someone who could help us reach these goals, please reach out! We couldn’t do what we do without your support.
We are looking forward to participating in the statewide fundraiser Earth Day Oregon again this year. We had our first meeting with the EDO Director this month. We’re excited to share more about what we do, and how it relates to Earth Day, and the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals.
If you are an Oregon based business, who is interested in partnering with us for the event, please reach out. We need 3 business partners is order to qualify for the event.
We donated 49 postpartum boxes in January to moms in need all across the United States including: 20 donated to the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center Women’s Clinic, 19 donated to NICU families in need through the Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation, 5 to refugee families in California through Miry’s List, and 5 to refugee families in New York through New Neighbors Partnership.
If you would like to provide postpartum essentials to a mom in need, please donate today. We would love to meet or beat our goal of donating 700 boxes this year!
In continuation with our “Mamas Making an Impact” Instagram Live series, we had on Miry’s List Founder, Miry Whitehill. Miry shared about how she got started with her nonprofit work supporting refugee families in California, and about her new book set to come out in March titled: “Our World is a Family”.
Maria also had the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Carlene Link. They had an honest discussion of what it can be like for postpartum moms to return to the workplace. Carlene explains why she decided to make some changes in her career as a result of her own experience. And, why she started a business to help others do the same. Go to our Instagram page to watch!
Stay connected with us on Instagram (@inkindboxes) where we share all about postpartum, our work, and more. We’re grateful to have an amazing community of support over there.
As each new year passes, we strive to help more and more families. The need for our boxes is great. Thank for donating to In Kind Boxes, and showing moms in need the love and support they deserve. We couldn’t do what we do without you.
Special thanks to Juna for offering 1 year free membership to their app- “the only app you need for motherhood”. 100 donated gift boxes have special inserts which include a code for moms to login to the app for free.
Because of your kindness and generosity, In Kind Boxes was able to not only meet our goal of 600 donated boxes in 2021, but BEAT it!!! We donated 651 postpartum boxes to families in need all across the United States.
The majority of those were donated locally, to families in need in the greater Portland Metro area. We partner with organizations that offer support services to new and expecting moms- our postpartum gift boxes supplement the care they receive.
We were excited to reach more families across the US by continuing to grow our nationwide partnerships! Click here to see who we are currently helping. If you have suggestions of organizations you’d like to see us donate boxes to, please feel free to reach out to us at: info@inkindboxes.org.
We couldn’t do what we do without you. Please continue to donate, and share about our nonprofit mission. Together we are making an impact by showing moms in need that they matter, and that they’re not alone.
To become part of our online village, connect with us on social media @inkindboxes.
What a month! We are still waiting on some final fundraising numbers from social media channels, but from what we know so far, you helped us raise $2,945 this month!!!! That is postpartum gift boxes for approximately 54 families in need! This time of the year is especially hard for families. You really showed up for them!
Thank you for being part of our village. We are SO grateful for you.
This month we made donations of twenty gift boxes to both of the following local organizations- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon & SW Washington, and Washington County’s Maternal, Child & Family Program. Through our nationwide gift box donation program, in partnership with the Colette Louise Tisdahl Foundation, we shipped out 28 gift boxes to families in need all across the United States including several to North Carolina, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa and New York.
This month we reviewed applications for our Doula/Midwife gift box sponsorship program, and are excited to be working with both Angelica Miller of Rowan Midwifery, and Community Doula Alliance– a fellow Portland area nonprofit. These applicants were chosen based on the kindness they choose to spread to families in need within their communities. We are so grateful for birth workers. They do amazing work, and we are happy to be able to support them, and the families in their care, with monthly shipments of our postpartum box for 2022.
If you haven’t already heard, we’ve opened an Etsy shop! This is another way for us to fundraise. We have put together a kindness calendar as a fun tool to help you teach your children about kindness and empathy. The calendar is available as a digital download. Proceeds from the $3 sale are donated to In Kind Boxes, which we put towards purchasing the natural and organic essentials we fill our gift boxes with.
We are so grateful to have been included in Holiday Gift Guides by:
–Working Momkind, Stroller in the City, First Time Parents Magazine and Fourth Trimester Foundations.
Our founder Maria Berglund was also a guest on The Limitless Pregnancy podcast, and The Nonprofit Jenni Show podcast this month, as they too were highlighting their favorite gifts to give.
We are always so grateful when we’re given the opportunity to share about our work. The more awareness we can bring to our mission, the better. As In Kind’s village of support grows, so does the number of families we can help.
In partnership with the Born This Way Foundation #BeKind21
#BeKind21 is an invitation for you to practice kindness toward yourself and others each day from September 1 to September 21 to build kinder, more connected communities that foster mental wellness. This a movement of over 200 partners, 7 million participants, and 160 million pledged acts of kindness on a mission to build a kinder, braver world that affirms and celebrates everyone for who they are.
See our list of 21 acts of kindness below.
Follow along with us on Instagram to hear about why this event is so important to us.
We hope you’ll participate during the event, and tag @inkindboxes using the hashtag #BeKind21 when you do.
To learn more about #BeKind21, and sign up for yourself, please click here.
