Giving the Basics

Providing Personal Care and Hygiene Products to over 250,000 people monthly! 🧴 🧼🛀🏻🧻

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Volunteers are critical to the mission of Giving the Basics. 💙
Learn why they volunteer, why their employees keep coming back, and why Giving the Basics continues to be a meaningful team experience for their organizations.
📖 Read the blog:
https://t.co/lccXjnRn5x

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As temperatures rise, so does the need for basic hygiene items like deodorant. ☀️

Every month, Giving the Basics distributes 20,990 deodorants to help ensure our neighbors can show up to school, work, and life feeling clean and confident.

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Want to host a hygiene drive? 🧴✨
Our newest blog shares digital promotion strategies, impact stories, and how Giving the Basics provides everything you need — including collection barrels, social graphics, emails, flyers, and more.
Read more: https://t.co/dkmYD4q6xR

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🎸 This was SO cool.
Giving the Basics was proud to be the charity recipient at the @STYXtheband show on Wednesday night ❤️
Rock & roll for a great cause 🤘✨ Thank you!

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We still have volunteer group openings available in May, June & July! 📦
Help us process hygiene products and get them out the door to families in need across our community.
Sign your group up today:
https://t.co/kPdaUbzEYT

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📬 Our latest newsletter is here — and it’s full of impact made possible by YOU. Read the full newsletter here: https://t.co/NRRupQ1hqb

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This April:
718 volunteers.
545,023 hygiene items packed.
Thousands of students supported. 💙
https://t.co/y63n5y3y7Z

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Yesterday we visited with Chelsea & Lacy from Phoenix Family — a Giving the Basics partner since 2012. 💙

Hearing stories of mothers, families, & seniors benefiting from hygiene essentials reminds us that soap, shampoo, & toothpaste are making a real difference across KC.

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This Period Poverty Awareness Week, you can help restore dignity:
🩷 Donate products
🩷 Host a drive
🩷 Volunteer in our warehouse
🩷 Give online to help us provide essentials to local families

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April impact at a glance 💙

📍2,500+ locations served
🧼 3.5 million products distributed
🙋‍♀️ $45,000 saved through volunteer hours

Thank you to every volunteer, donor, company, and supporter helping make dignity possible every day.

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32% of families report reusing diapers when they cannot afford new ones — a practice that can lead to painful rashes and infections in infants.
Hygiene poverty impacts health, dignity, and family stability every day. 💙

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We surpassed our Spring Showers goal! 💙
Together, we provided 445,400 hygiene items for students.
Congrats to:
🏆 Oasis Senior Advisors
🏆 1248 Holdings
🏆 Guest Worldwide
🏆 Board of Public Utilities
Thanks to our community champions KMBC 9 Cares for Kids & Life 88.5!

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What you don’t see in schools:
Students missing class
Avoiding activities
Struggling with confidence
School nurses are sharing how access to hygiene products is changing that.
Read more:
https://t.co/eTCaMjz5oW

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Spring merch is here 🌸
Show your support for Giving the Basics and rep the mission 💙
Stop by and grab yours today!

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Our April newsletter is here!
Read how a community is coming together for students, see March impact numbers, volunteer highlights, and more:
https://t.co/moiop9mqa4
Because access to hygiene is access to opportunity. 💙

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We’re closing in on 300,000 hygiene items for students!
Huge thanks to T-Mobile for contributing 42 volunteer hours, a $10,000 gift from the T-Mobile Foundation, and $15 per volunteer hour during Spring Showers. 💙

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Hygiene poverty impacts more than personal care.
It affects school attendance, workforce participation, and public health across the U.S.
Learn how access to hygiene products strengthens communities in our newest blog:
https://t.co/iwbno8FwCj

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Huge thanks to 323 volunteers from 24 groups who packed 492 hours of hygiene supplies for KC students in March!
Your work is making a real difference for local students.
Read the full thank you: https://t.co/9xeDU2jeYr

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We’re 1/3 of the way to our 300,000-item Spring Showers goal! 🌧
Shoutout to BMO Bank—with 8 locations rallying customers to donate for dignity and support local students. 💙
Businesses like BMO are helping make this momentum possible!

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We’re halfway to our Spring Showers goal! 🌧
Thanks to supporters, participating businesses, and KMBC-TV viewers, 150,603 hygiene products have already been donated.
Even better—thanks to Cerris Systems + the T-Mobile Foundation, your gift will now be doubled! 💙