6/10/17

2016 in Review

We started 2016 with the announcement that Gloria Kennedy would take over from Kay Stephenson as Program Manager for Love Thy Baby, representing us on the Love Thy Neighbor board. Kay served us well as President for the last few years that we were with Newborns in Need and orchestrated our transition to LTN, where we have a broader base of financial supporters. We thank Kay for everything she did to grow our group during her tenure.

Over the course of the year, we grew our financial contributions through participation in the North Texas Day of Giving, as well as continued support from the Parkland Auxiliary, TPHCCA, Dell Services, Northaven UMC, TI and many wonderful individual contributors.

Lakeview Josey Ranch joined us as an additional satellite group and our existing groups continue to make more and more, particularly the Coppell Senior Center Knit Wits and Atria Canyon Creek. The CAP program has been passing large quantities of used baby clothing and diapers on to the agencies we work with as well. All of this contributed to significant growth in our 2016 deliveries. 


We closed the year by filling 385 Christmas bags for Parkland and JPS, with multiple clothing items, loveys and receiving blankets in each bag.  All of the above contributed to substantial growth over the previous year, from just over 40,000 items in 2015 to just over 50,000 items in 2016.







 Love Thy Baby is made up of an absolutely wonderful group of volunteers and we could not provide for so many babies without each and every one of you. Keep up the good work!