My birthday has come and gone, and with it an amazing thing: Help a Mother Out has collected 1,000,000 diapers to serve families who can't afford them since May 2009. We made it! With your help. Right now my living room looks like this: Many of these boxes of … [Read more...]
Lots of Happy Babies
Saturday afternoon, May 7. The 2011 Help a Mother Out Mother's Day Diaper Drive. I had spent the entire day outside the Westlake Village Fresh Brothers Pizza, which is in a fancy outdoor mall and trafficked by fancy people, most of whom looked at me oddly as I chirped "I'm … [Read more...]
Give Diapers Instead of Toys For Tots
This Christmas season you may be tempted to buy new toys for needy children and drop them in the gaily decorated boxes at the fire station, the mall, the grocery store, your kid's school, etc. Of course those children will love the new toys. Of course you should give them. But … [Read more...]
I Am a Big Dork and So Can You
At the Glendale Diaper Drive kickoff event this morning, we collect over 3,300 diapers. There are 13 more days in this drive, and our goal is 20,000 diapers. A Glendale area orthodontist is awarding an iPad in a raffle - for one ticket donate 50 diapers, for 10 tickets donate … [Read more...]
National Month-Long Diaper Drive With Help a Mother Out
I'm not sure whose idea this was, probably crazy Lisa Truong, co-founder of Help a Mother Out who often asks me if she's crazy for taking on the things she takes on. My answer is always "yes," of course, but without people like her how would I have moved people and companies to … [Read more...]
