My Stuff Bags Foundation

My Stuff Bags Program

Although we are a national organization, we began a geographically dedicated project, the "Southern California My Stuff Bags Project," many years ago to address the enormous problem of thousands of Southern California children, rescued from abuse, neglect, domestic violence and homelessness, arriving for crisis care with little of their own to cling to for dignity, comfort, and distraction. The goal of the California My Stuff Bags Program is to reach 12,000 desperate children across California with our individual duffels of new belongings each year. In-kind donations of new children’s items are collected and shipped to our warehouse by numerous compassionate individuals, service organizations, and businesses, who generously volunteer to make blankets or collect and contribute items for the bags. Volunteers sort the donated goods, first by gender and then into four age groupings: Infant (0-2 years), Young Child (3-6 years), Child (7-11 years), and Tween/Teen (12 and up). Bags are filled with new items by our volunteers, and shipped to the requesting Partner Agencies, who will distribute the Bags to the children in their care.