The COVID-19 pandemic has created great needs across the US and around the world. As parents, we naturally want to take care of our families, but many of us also feel the need to help others. If you’re looking for a way to support mothers and children who may need assistance during this difficult time, there are many ways you can help. Here are 13 organizations that are well worth donating money, resources, or time to right now:

 

  • Alliance for Moms: Supports pregnant teens and young parents (ages 12 to 21) in LA’s foster care system as they work to build a better future for their children.
  • Baby2Baby: Provides children living in poverty (from 0-12 years) with diapers, clothes, and other basic necessities that they need. 
  • Every Mother Counts: Makes pregnancy and childbirth safer for mothers everywhere by raising awareness, finding solutions, and mobilizing action.
  • Harvest Home: Transforms the lives of homeless pregnant women and their children by coordinating housing and overseeing programs that empower women to become great mothers.
  • Help A Mother Out: Strives to improve family health and well-being by providing diapers to families in need.
  • Little Essentials: Gives at-risk families living in poverty the education tools and supplies they need to improve the lives of their children under five years of age. 
  • Maya’s Hope: Maya’s Hope works tirelessly to help the children of Ukraine and the Philippines get the life saving surgeries and supplies they need to grow and thrive. Many of the children in our care are excelling in school or have been adopted by loving families.
  • NYC Mammas Give Back: Improves the lives of fellow moms in New York by providing clothes, formula, strollers, and other supplies.
  • Planned Parenthood: Provides reproductive services as well as the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies program that gives young mothers the social and medical assistance they need to raise their child. 
  • Room To Grow: Ensures babies born into poverty have everything they need to learn and grow in life by offering coaching, material goods, and community connections to parents.
  • Saving Mothers: A network of medical professionals that works with community organizations and governments to improve maternal care, especially in low-income areas where women may not have as much access to quality healthcare.
  • Single Parent Advocate: Offers emotional support, practical assistance, and resources to single parents.
  • Women in Need: Provides shelter and housing for New York’s homeless families, with a special focus on women and children.
  • Zero Mothers Die: Works to save the lives of pregnant women, new mothers, and babies by providing mobile technologies that increase their access to information about how to have a healthy pregnancy and childbirth.