Toiletry Bags
What items can we take?
We can take clean, reusable Men's and Women's toiletry bags of all styles, small enough to fit into your Featured Category cloth bag. Please remove any personal items.
Leather toiletry bags
Vinyl toiletry bags
Empty bags only. We can accept any color of vinyl bag.
Toiletry bags of any material
Including cotton, nylon, canvas, and polyester.
Travel-sized toiletry bags
Hanging and roll-up toiletry bags
Empty bags only.
Toiletry bags with prints
Please no items displaying offensive language and pictures.
What isn’t in this category?
Dirty, stained, or moldy bags
Used toiletries
These should be emptied and recycled.
New and unopened toiletries
Items containing hair trimmings
Toiletry Bags.
Just as Essential Hygiene Items are among some of the most highly needed basics for our partners serving houseless and vulnerable individuals, these bags will be greatly appreciated. Our partners will be able to use them to create Hygiene Kits, or distribute them throughout the local community.
Partnering with Birch Community Services
Birch Community Services helps out Oregonians who are living paycheck to paycheck. They work to provide a community where people can be responsible and accountable for meeting their basic needs, and to equip them with tools to overcome financial difficulty. BCS serves 600 families each week with food and financial education. After a year at Birch, an average family pays off $7,000 of debt and increases their savings by $1,000. Additionally, BCS distributes food to 70 other nonprofit organizations across the Portland Metro area, reaching more than 15,000 people each week.
Partnering with Rose Haven
Rose Haven is a day shelter and community center providing resources, emotional support, and community connections to more than 4,000 women, children, and marginalized genders experiencing homelessness and poverty each year. As a low-barrier shelter, they provide access to basic needs, such as a safe mailing address, food, supplies, showers, and laundry paired with long-term empowerment activities including one-on-one advocacy, support groups, financial assistance, and more. Their vision is "a community where everyone has safety, stability, love, health, and home", and items donated by Ridwell members help Rose Haven fulfill it.
Partnering with Sunstone Way
Sunstone Way (formerly All Good Northwest) is a homeless services provider that offers low-barrier shelter to those affected by chronic homelessness. Sunstone Way operates 3 village model shelters and an emergency congregate shelter. They provide participants with case management, housing navigation, employment resources, peer support, and behavioral health services.
Village model shelters provide participants with safety, privacy, and dignity while they move towards self-efficacy and permanent housing. Sunstone Way believes in the intrinsic goodness of all people and the power of connection & community.
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