What we take
Baby food and diapers
Parents in our community need these baby items now more than ever. A baby goes through 3,000 diapers in the first year of life, which can cost between $80 and $100 per month! Families are often forced to choose between purchasing diapers and being able to pay for other living expenses like rent, food, or transportation.
Parents can relate to how expensive these items are and how frustrating it is to have leftovers when your kids change diaper sizes or move to big kid underwear. You can be left with packages of unused diapers or food your kids no longer eat. Now these spare items can go where they’re needed most!
About our partners
How we keep your Baby food and diapers out of landfills.
We partner directly with innovators who transform hard-to-recycle materials into new products—so you can see exactly where your items go and what they become.
Featured Partner
KidVantage
KidVantage helps thousands of kids each year be safe, nourished, and healthy by providing essentials such as diapers, formula, car seats, and clothing, and more. KidVantage protects and promotes healthy development for kids (through age 12) by collecting, purchasing and distributing essential goods, free, through service providers working with kids and families. They strengthen families, build resiliency in children, reduce inequities, and create stronger communities with a mission of helping kids reach their full potential tomorrow by meeting basic needs today.
Featured Partner
Open Arms Perinatal Services
Open Arms provides free, community-based support during pregnancy, birth, and early parenting to nurture strong foundations that last a lifetime. Since 1997, Open Arms' community-based programs have provided comprehensive perinatal services to over four thousand economically marginalized families. They are a predominantly BIPOC organization that provides free support during pregnancy, birth, and early childhood with birth and community-based outreach doula services, lactation counseling, and social service referrals to over 500 families annually throughout the Puget Sound region.
Featured Partner
WeeCycle
Founded in 2008, WeeCycle strives to improve the health and wellbeing of at-risk Colorado infants and toddlers. We collect, “weecycle” and match essential baby gear – including diapers, baby food and formula – both directly to families in need and through our network of community partner organizations serving individuals experiencing poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, teen pregnancy and under-employment, as well as those serving immigrants and refugees. By “weecycling” baby gear, we help keep children clean and safe and contribute to a healthier environment for their future.
Featured Partner
Berkeley Food Network
The Berkeley Food Network (BFN), founded in 2016, seeks to end hunger and poor nutrition by using innovative, community-centered solutions to build a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable food system. Weekly, BFN provides fresh, healthy, no-cost groceries to 3,000 people directly through their pantry and delivery programs, and 3,500 indirectly through partnerships across Northern Alameda County. Material provided by Ridwell will help serve our community through their many programs.
Featured Partner
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County has been serving and advocating for individuals and families for more than 67 years. Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County changes lives for good. They help people of all cultures and beliefs rise up out of poverty and overcome the barriers to self-sufficiency and wellness. They are able to accomplish this service by providing food, housing assistance, senior services, and mental health services. They help reduce the effects of situational poverty by providing jobs, immigration legal services, refugee foster care, financial literacy, and asset development. In addition they work on preventing the cycle of generational poverty through early childhood development, parenting support, after-school enhanced learning and youth empowerment. Items provided by Ridwell members go to support their many services.
Featured Partner
Helping Mamas
Helping Mamas is the baby supply bank of Georgia and East Tennessee. Diapers are as essential to a baby’s healthy development as a mother’s love. Keeping infants and toddlers clean, dry, and healthy is key to building a solid foundation for all children to reach their full potential. But one in three families struggles to provide clean diapers for their baby. To date, Helping Mamas has served over 300,000 children in need and has distributed over five million essential baby supplies to families living in poverty. In Atlanta alone, Helping Mamas works with over 150 partner agencies across the state to supply mothers in need with essential items like diapers, car seats, pack-n-plays, clothing, and hygiene items.
Featured Partner
Bellingham Food Bank
The Bellingham Food Bank believes that in this land of plenty, hunger is unacceptable. As Whatcom County's largest emergency food provider, the folks at BFB aim to provide excellent fresh food through individual community donations and partnerships with local farmers and grocery stores. In 2020, Bellingham Food Bank distributed over 135,000 pre-packed grocery boxes. Your donations will help the food bank to continue their essential work of disrupting food insecurity.
Featured Partner
Center for Farmworker Families
The purpose of the Center for Farmworker Families, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is to promote awareness about the difficult life circumstances of binational farmworker families while proactively inspiring improvement in binational family life both in the United States and Mexico. Some of their projects include the Oaxacan Community Shed, a monthly distribution providing basic necessities and community-building hub for Oaxacan farmworkers in Central California, free in-home tutoring educational outreach program to children of farmworker families, and providing computers and printers for families with school-age children.
Featured Partner
The LoVVe Project
The LoVVe Project is a volunteer-run community-based organization. They provide nutritious fresh meat, dairy products, and produce, as well as hygiene and cleaning products, to families in need from Ellis Elementary School in Denver, CO.
Featured Partner
Alexandria House
For over 26 years, Alexandria House has provided safe and supportive housing for women and children in the process of moving from emergency shelters to economic stability and permanent housing. Located in the densely populated and ethnically diverse Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles, Alexandria House serves the broader neighborhood community by providing educational and enrichment opportunities for neighbors as well as their residents.
Items provided by Ridwell will support women and children in the transitional residence. Over 92% of families who have gone through the Alexandria House program remain in permanent housing and receive ongoing support from Alexandria House.
Featured Partner
Babies of Homelessness
Babies of Homelessness mobilizes the Seattle community to bring basic necessities to children experiencing homelessness - families living in cars, tent cities, encampments and/or shelters.
Since 2016 they have served 4,000 families, distributed 201,292 diapers across 25 agencies and 2 counties.
Featured Partner
WestSide Baby
WestSide Baby helps local families and children get the basics they need for a stable environment from clothes and diapers to strollers and toys. They provide 45 diapers per month per child, free of charge, to as many clients as possible who need them. Their volunteers bundle the diapers and prepare them for distribution.
