Have you turned on your furnace yet? As the weather cools off in the Fox Valley, it’s on a lot of minds: how long to wait to flip the switch and heat your home. For those struggling with poverty, heating a home during our state’s cold months adds additional financial burdens
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Featured Volunteer: Holly
Even though Holly has spent the last year volunteering countless hours sorting inventory at Jake’s Diapers, she is continually impressed with the organization’s impact. “The amount that they get out the door, helping out families – not just in our community but around the world,” Holly said. “I can’t imagine
Update: Helping Poverty-Stricken Babies in Green Bay
It can be a challenge to raise children, even with a partner alongside you – yet 13.7 million parents in the United States are going it alone, according to a 2009 census data. While conversations around the issue of single parenthood result in mixed answers about its impact on poverty,
We’re SEW Into Our Volunteers
As we progress through Diaper Need Awareness Week, it’s important to recognize the heroes who spend hours sewing, packing, and readying supplies for families here at Jake’s Diapers. The volunteers in our sewing circles have clocked more than 800 hours this year, repairing items that would otherwise be wasted and
We Love Our Volunteers! Meet Scott and Lanette
Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes here at Jake’s Diapers? As a diaper bank, we collect, store, and distribute diapers locally, nationally, and globally. But what does this really look like? It means on any given day, there may be a team of volunteers performing a variety
Introducing Our Newest Diaper Drop, House of Hope
There’s a lot of things we have to wait for in life, but diapers should not be one of them. At Jake’s Diapers, we continue to grow our list of partners in an effort to reduce the number of caregivers on waiting lists for access to basic needs that fuel
53,250 Diapers to Babies in Green Bay
Wow! Since January of this year, 53,250 diapers have been distributed to babies in Green Bay. Almost 8% of those receiving diapers are currently experiencing or recently experienced a medical crisis, including: 8 month old with kidney disease and a cleft palate chronic kidney disease cancer high-risk pregnancies diabetes seizures
Celebrating Youth in Wisconsin on International Youth Day
Jake’s Diapers is empowered to do good work across Northeast Wisconsin, nationally and globally in large part because of the hardworking people in the areas we serve. A big piece of this pie includes youth in our own backyard here in Wisconsin. We think it’s important to recognize the difference
NBC26 Cares Diaper Drive!
NBC26 & Jake’s Diapers Team up to Solve Diaper Need in North East Wisconsin Kaukauna, WI- Jake’s Diapers has been blessed with an extremely amazing opportunity to help families here in Wisconsin experiencing diaper need: NBC26 has chosen to do a week long Diaper Drive (cloth and disposable) Oct 24th-28th!
Jump for Jake’s: A Family Fun Event Solving Diaper Need for Wisconsin Veterans
Jump for Jake’s: A Family Fun Event Solving Diaper Need for Wisconsin Veterans Kaukauna, WI- Jake’s Diapers, a non-profit cloth diaper bank, is proud to announce Jump for Jake’s: A Family Fun Event to be held Wednesday, June 15th at The Learning Shop, 4705 W. College Ave, Appleton, from 10