Child Protection United States Project #8000

KIDS/Fashion Delivers -Essentials for Kids in Need

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KIDS/Fashion Delivers -Essentials for Kids in Need

Project Report | Sep 25, 2014
Changing the Lives of Children Nationwide

By Moufida Chaoui | Development Associate

Volunteers from the ABC show

K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers, Inc. is so thankful for your generous contribution, which enabled us to provide brand new essentials to children in need throughout the United States. With your support, K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers continues to touch the lives of thousands of children all over the country.

Bronx, NY --

Tynesha Hendricks, founder of our community partner's Princess For A Lifetime, "Dress Me Up" program, recently reached out to us about putting together a princess party for 4 year old Maria, who suffers from a chronic medical condition that needs regular hospital care. The program, based in the Bronx, NY, has helped over 100 chronically and terminally ill children feel a little more special and a little less frightened about the procedures they often endure. Our incredible friends Annie and Jen from Ooh! La, La! Couture! responded without hesitation to make sure that Maria got her wish. Thanks to the generosity of donors like yourself and Ooh! La, La! Couture, we were able to provide for Maria and truly make her dream come true and uplift her spirit.

We would not be able to provide this wonderful product without your support. From our experience, we know product donations help fulfill the needs of disadvantaged and distressed children enabling them to look beyond bleak and distressing circumstances into a future filled with hope. The gift of brand new product demonstrates to distressed children that they are not only valuable, but worthy of being valued.

Las Vegas, NV --

In the beginning of September, K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers attended the ABC Kids Expo held in Las Vegas, NV. Annually, we are the charity of choice to receive all of the juvenile products donated. After the show, truckloads of items from thousands of generous vendors were packed up and made ready for shipment to our community partners. K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers received about $200,000 worth of brand new products and provided a large portion of the donations to our partner, The Las Vegas Dream Center. Together, we will bring hope to thousands of needy children in the Las Vegas region.

Your support has proven to be an invaluable asset to our programs. Without your continued support, we would be hard pressed to maintain the level of support we currently provide. As always, K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers guarantees a 10:1 match for all financial contributions. We have, and will continue to stretch your dollars to their capacity.

Our goal is to raise $5,000, which will provide $50,000 worth of brand new merchandise, such as clothes, shoes, books, educational materials, toys, home items, and more to disadvantaged children who are in dire need of the basics across the nation.

Please help us continue our mission by donating now. Thank you again for your valued support.

Maria, enjoying her "Dress Me Up" event

4 year old, Maria :)

ABC show

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Jun 26, 2014
Product Donations Nationwide

By Sabrina Echegaray | Development Manager

Sophia from New York

Every donation allows us to reach in-need children nationwide. Here are some stories of how product donations have impacted the lives on impoverished children in the west coast and east coast:

NEW YORK:Sophia comes from a single parent home, and her father is all she has. He struggles to make ends meet as many immigrant families do, and after housing and food, there's very little money to provide brand new clothing for his little girl.

Jacob comes from a family where his daddy is very sick with heart disease, which prevents him from working. A sensitive little boy, he's anxious every time his dad goes to the doctor for yet another test, and senses just how much the stress is taking a toll on his mom.

Their community partnership with K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers, Lighthouse Outreach Ministries in Copiague, New York has been able to help their families, and several hundred others, find a way to provide the kind of quality items that they otherwise could not easily afford.

We would not be able to get these wonderful donations to some of the neediest children in the nation without your support. Thank you so much for your contribution. We look forward to reaching more children in need than never before, and we cannot do it without your financial support.

CALIFORNIA: Through our partnership with community agencies, we are able to reach the neediest children and families. We recently received some incredible feedback regarding our product donations from Tasha-Nicole Terani, founder of our community partner, Every Child's Dream Foundation, in Westlake, California. The agency does remarkable work for thousands of orphaned and abandoned children. Tasha sent us this picture of "Avalon" (who was named after the place where she was found) and her brand new ladybug pillow pet, which, Tasha says, she is now cuddling with in her new foster home!

It is this kind of compassion and dedication that makes us proud to be affiliated with the agencies in our partner network. Most importantly, we would not be able to provide this wonderful product without your support. For every $1 donated, K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers is able to donate over $10 worth of brand new product to underprivileged families across the nation. From our experience, we know product donations like these help fulfill the needs of disadvantaged children and adults, demonstrating to them that they are worthy of being valued.

Due to the tremendous support of our product donors, your gift is multiplied ten-fold: a $30 donation provides over $300 worth of new merchandise to needy families.

Our goal is to raise $5,000, which will provide $50,000 worth of brand new merchandise, such as clothes, books, toys, home items and more to disadvantaged children and adults who are in dire need of the basics across the nation.

Please help us continue our mission by donating now. Thank you again for your valuable support.

Jacob from New York

Avalon from California

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Mar 27, 2014
Charity Rankings and Navajo Mission

By Cristina Morais | Director of Development

A few of the children helped at the Navajo Mission

K.I.D.S.’ programs span the United States, enabling us to reach thousands of children in need through our network of over 1,000 community partners. Community partners like Pam Engel, from the Wyatte Baptist Church in Greenville, MS, could not express just how much of an impact our donations have on the children she serves. As she states: "Thank you so much for the love you give us through donations for our missions. That same love reaches so very many and in return they send their thanks and prayers."

As a result of the wonderful support of our donors, K.I.D.S. reached the children pictured above as well as so many others. Thanks to our ability to efficiently and effectively reach populations most in need, K.I.D.S. was recently ranked at number 207 on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 2013 ranking of the Philanthropy 400, with a 29% increase in private support over the previous year.

K.I.D.S. receives product donations from over 1,000 manufacturers and retailers and then distributes the new clothing, books, shoes, toys, educational materials and home goods that kids need to local social service agencies around the country, which they integrate into their programs. Over 98% of K.I.D.S.' total expenses go towards our programs, which has led the following organizations to recognize our outstanding commitment to fiscal management, transparency and service impact.

Charity Navigator, the rating agency for all not-for-profits, has awarded K.I.D.S. its "exceptional" 4 star rating for six years in a row indicating that K.I.D.S. consistently executes its mission in a way that outperforms most other charities in America.

Forbes Magazine ranks K.I.D.S. among the top 200 non-profit agencies and calls K.I.D.S. one of "America's Most Efficient Charities."

The National Better Business Bureau has given K.I.D.S. its highest ranking for 5 years in a row.

It starts with one person like you who makes a generous donation to K.I.D.S. Due to the tremendous support of our product donors, your gift is then multiplied ten-fold: a $25 gift provides $250 of new merchandise. It ends with children and families in need receiving something new of their own to experience the joy, relief, and pride that so many of us feel when we receive something brand new.

Please help us continue our mission by donating now.

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