I've been to a baby shower or two in my day. I like them. Celebrating pregnant mamas and babies just feels good to me. So if a bunch of 10 friends and grandma warms my heart, get a load of this: for two solid weeks this month (April 12-27) you can donate baby items that will be distributed to families in need. A community baby shower! An excellent opportunity to welcome all babies into our village. Genious.
How It Works: It couldn't be simpler. You donate and/or collect needed baby items for Northwest Children's Outreach and the agencies they serve in the Portland and Vancouver areas. You've probably heard of some: Good Neighbor Center, Albina Head Start, LifeWorks NW, and Virginia Garcia Healthy Start, to name a few.
What to Donate? Just check the web site for a comprehensive list. Some items I noticed are: car seats, pacifiers, receiving blankets, bouncy seats and wipes. All new, of course, and no gift wrap.
Where to Take It All? Four options, mamas: April 12th Portland Trail Blazers game, Lloyd Center Mall, Westfield Vancouver Mall, and any Mattress World.
Host a shower! Go ahead, mamas, kick it up a notch. A fun way to bolster donations and encourage friends to get involved is to host a baby shower at your house, only there's no specific baby, it's all to be donated! Good excuse for a get together with some mama friends and the host delivers the donations afterwards. Love that. If you want to use Activistas to organize a 'shower,' e-mail us, we're game. Remember our holiday Adopt-A-Family effort? This could be like Christmas in April!
Awesome.
Posted by: ProtestMama | April 09, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Wow! A community baby shower is great idea! I wasn't able to participate but we'll be doing this in our community.This can be a good way to educate the people about family planning.
Posted by: baby gifts | March 20, 2009 at 09:05 AM
My tips on how to choose the best gift knew first what the gender of the baby is, and know your budget for the things you buy... You just know what your limitation in buying...is
Posted by: baby gifts | February 09, 2010 at 05:31 PM
Awesome! A community baby shower, how fun!
Posted by: newborn gifts | March 24, 2011 at 02:50 PM