The nonprofit organization is dedicated to providing children living in poverty with diapers, formula, clothing and basic needs.
On Friday, March 22, Assemblymember Isaac Bryan presented a $1.5 million budget allocation (FY 2023-24) to Baby2Baby, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to providing children living in poverty with diapers, formula, clothing, and the basic necessities that every child deserves.
“Almost every community nonprofit that our office works with also has a relationship with Baby2Baby,” said Bryan. “They are one of the major diaper distributors in our region and we’ve got to make sure that they are resourced so that they can continue to resource our families.”
Baby2Baby distributes basic essentials and products to children living in poverty across the country. They have given out 375,000,000 critical items in the last 12 years. These state funds will support Baby2Baby in its mission to provide essential items to millions of vulnerable families across California.
“It’s incredible, we are so grateful to Assemblymember Bryan,” said Baby2Baby Co-CEO Kelly Sawyer Patricof. “He has been a champion for Baby2Baby.”
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Patricof continued, “He really understands what we’re working on with diaper need and our mission and $1.5 million towards diapers is really a big dent in what we’re trying to do obviously with 1.5 billion requests for diapers.
“It doesn’t cover it and we have a lot of work to do, but we couldn’t be more grateful to him and his team.
“Diapers are really making a cycle of poverty and holding parents back from entering and succeeding in the workforce.”
According to statistics, nearly half of the families in the U.S are struggling to afford diapers. Diapers costs up to 14% of low-income families after taxes. Daycares require a full-day supply of diapers before a child can be dropped off.
“Our parents are making impossible choices between feeding and diapering their children,” said Baby2Baby Co-CEO Norah Weinstein.
“We have seen for a decade now, first hand, families, who are struggling to make these decisions. They have resorted to using newspapers and towels as substitutes for diapers and, have even had to take a diaper off their babies and hang it to dry and put it back on.”
Baby2Baby has their own manufacturing system, which allows them to produce diapers for 80% less than retail price distributing 5 times more.
“I couldn’t be prouder to be here,” said California Infrastructure Advisor and former Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa.
“When I think of nonprofits, who do God’s work, who do the kind of work that all of us should be engaging in, l think of Baby2Baby.”
“It feels fantastic there are going to be thousands of families across Los Angeles and beyond that are going to benefit from this,” said Bryan.
