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Baby supplies for 60 families in the Bronx

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Baby supplies for 60 families in the Bronx

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Summary

This project provides clothing, gear and products for infants and young children, coupled with family budgeting classes, to needy families enrolled in an early education program in the Bronx. read updates from the field

How You Can Help

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$15 - Can provide a one month supply of diapers or a backpack, books and school supplies for a child.
$80 - Buys a safe sleeping place for a newborn sibling.
$100 - Brings five days of school clothing to 5 toddlers in need.

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Received $5,206 from 155 donations from people like:

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

This project addresses the high cost of providing for infants and young children for families living in poverty. It will be located in the Bronx, the poorest urban county in the United States. This project will; give needed resources to families, off-set the high cost of providing for infants and young children, reduce the damage to young children caused by the stress of living in poverty. It will link these families to volunteers who will teach basic budgeting to the families.

Activities

Baby Buggy delivers clothing, cribs, diapers and more to families in need. By giving these items coupled with budgeting classes we help: ensure the safety and well-being of children, reduce financial stress + off-set the expense of raising children.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,206
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $16,794
Total Funding Goal: $22,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will serve 60 families living in a community where over 67% of the children are born into poverty. By offering family budgeting classes and regular donations of clothing, diapers and equipment, we positively affect families’ lives.

Project Message

"Children who experience poverty during their preschool and early school years have lower rates of school completion than children and adolescents who experience poverty only in later years.
- Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Professor, Columbia Univ., Family and Child Dev.

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Katherine Snider
Executive Director
Baby Buggy
306 West 37th Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10018
United States
212-736-1775
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Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

The Baby Buggy, Inc.
306 West 37th Street 8th Floor
New York, New York 10018
United States
212-736-1777
http://www.babybuggy.org

Learn more about The Baby Buggy, Inc. and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Education.

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When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 22, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

Great Strides

By Nura Poursharif - Program Director, June 09, 2010 01:10 PM

Baby Buggy offered a fifth cycle of Credit Where Credit Is Due financial education workshops on May 18, 2010 through the Baby Buggy Family Resource Center at St. Anthony’s Head Start in the Bronx. In addition to providing these client families with ongoing donations of critical gear and other essential baby supplies, Baby Buggy is currently scheduling individual financial counseling sessions for the graduates. The purpose of these sessions is to ensure the graduates have the necessary support to help them meet the goals set in their personal financial plans. We could not be more proud of the great strides these families have taken to reduce their debt, increase their savings, open education savings accounts for their children, and improve their credit scores!

On May 14th, 19 families enrolled in the Baby Buggy Family Resource Center at St. Anthony’s volunteered for a Baby Buggy mending project. Baby Buggy regularly receives corporate donations of beautiful, brand new children’s clothing; some of these donations include sample clothing with small tears. Volunteers regularly help mend this clothing so that they can be donated; the families at St. Anthony’s have graciously lent a helping hand to mend this clothing so that it could be passed along to other families in need!