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Gifts that Give Back

Our biggest week of gift box donations ever!

November 24, 2022 by In Kind

Women smiling holding gift boxes filled with essentials for new moms and their babies.

We’re so excited to announce that during the week of November 13-19th we were able to help 72 families in need!!!

This was made possible for a couple of reasons.

First, your donations- you heard our call for help, and you answered! We asked for your support in providing 200 families in need with essentials this holiday season, and we beat our goal of 100 boxes for November.

Secondly, we had our first volunteer event where people came and packed gift boxes with us. During those 2 hours, we had 6 volunteers come and pack 62 boxes with essentials!

Those were then able to be donated to several of our local partner organizations:

  • Washington County’s Nurse Family Partnership (15)
  • Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center Women’s Clinic in Hillsboro (25) Domestic Violence Resource Center (5)
  • Mother and Child Education Center (15)
  • Clackamas Women’s Services (12)

Other partners who have received donated gift boxes this month are:

  • Northwest Mother’s Milk Bank for their Evie’s Fund Program (5),
  • The Birthing Place BX (12) for their Wombus attending community baby showers, Miry’s List (5) in support of expecting/newly postpartum refugee families,
  • Colette Louse Tisdahl Foundation (10) in support of NICU families in need
  • Rowan Midwifery (1) who provides her services to families in need.

Thank you so much for being part of this village of support!

Together we are showing new moms in need that they matter, and that they’re not alone.

-Maria

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Your 2021 Impact

January 10, 2022 by In Kind

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.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Gifts that Give Back, impact

November Update

December 12, 2021 by In Kind

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.

How We’ve Helped:

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.

In Other News:

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.

As Seen In:

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.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fundraising, Gifts that Give Back, Giving Tuesday 2021, kindness calendar

Kindness Rocks Fundraiser

November 5, 2021 by In Kind

Are you looking for a beautiful gift that gives back this holiday season? We’re here to help!

We’re so excited to announce this partnership with Elyse Ryan Jewelry! Elyse has designed this beautiful “Kindness Rocks” bracelet, to shine a light on the work we’re doing to support postpartum moms in need. For every bracelet sold, $10 will be donated back to In Kind Boxes.

Featuring a Swarovski crystal, and 14 karat gold beads, this bracelet makes an amazing gift! If you’re looking for an extra special gift to give this holiday season, please consider shopping with this incredible mom owned business, and give the “Kindness Rocks” bracelet. To learn more about Elyse, and her passion for helping others through her jewelry please tune into our “Mamas Making an Impact” series on Instagram Live Friday, November 5.

Filed Under: Journal Tagged With: Elyse Ryan Jewelry, Fundraiser, Gift ideas, Gifts that Give Back, Kindness Rocks

September Update

October 3, 2021 by In Kind

Being kind to ourselves, and spreading kindness and love through out our community is important. It’s something we strive for all year, but love highlighting it with you during this challenge. We loved sharing our Kindness Calendar with you for the #BeKind21 Challenge in partnership with the Born This Way Foundation.

During our Instagram live series Mamas Making an Impact, we got to have some wonderful conversations with amazing moms who are making a positive impact on the world through their work.

In September we chatted with:

  • Rachel Amarante of @awakeningmotherhoodproject
  • Tara Clark of @modernmomprobs
  • Dianne & Jen of The Harper Girls
  • Kristen of @heart.fed– who is very generously donating 20% of her sales to In Kind Boxes for September!

This IG Live series has become a favorite part of the content we share on Instagram because of the real and raw conversations we’re having about motherhood. If you haven’t been able to watch one live, don’t worry! We have them all saved to our IGTV. Watch them here.

Our Founder, Maria Berglund, was up to some interesting things this month including:

  • A panelist speaker at Social Media Camp’s Social Media for Non-Profits Summit
  • A guest on MORE Magazine’s Founder to Founder series with MORE’s Founder Arianna Cruz. Find that interview here on their YouTube channel.
  • Ashlie Behm, a local Portland photographer featured Maria in her Womxn Warrior Blog series. Find the full interview here. Ashlie takes amazing photos, and we’re so grateful to be able to share these with you. If you are local please check her out!

We are always so grateful for the opportunity to share about our charity work, and our mission to help moms feel seen and supported on their postpartum journey. If you would like to help shine a light on In Kind Boxes’ work, please feel free to reach out to us! Email: info@inkindboxes.org

This month we donated nearly 50 gift boxes locally!! 30 boxes were donated to Ronald McDonald House in Portland, which will also be distributed to their Bend location, as well as to the Sherwood Family Resource Center in Sherwood, and Raphael House PDX. Donation delivery days are our absolute favorite!!! We also sent gift boxes to Maternity Journey in Houston, Texas to support mamas displaced by hurricane Ida.

Thank you for donating to and supporting In Kind Boxes! We couldn’t do what we do without you.

~Maria

Filed Under: Journal Tagged With: Donate, Gifts that Give Back, Mamas Making an Impact, Modernmomprobs, Oregon nonprofits, Postpartum Support, Tara Clark

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