Diaper Bank

What is the Diaper Bank?

Just as food banks are a dependable source of food, diaper banks supply a basic need for families in crisis. Diaper banks collect, store and donate diapers to a network of partner agencies who distribute free diapers to families facing nancial hardship. Diaper banks rely on the generosity of the community for nancial and diaper donations. Acting together, individuals, diaper banks, faith-based institutions, service providers, businesses, organizations, and elected o cials can get diapers to all babies in need.

About the Skagit County Diaper Bank:

e Diaper Bank of Skagit County was founded in 2017 to provide diapers to families in need with help from organizations including Community Action, the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Supplemental Program, and the National Diaper Bank Network.

A er a half-decade of work amazing work and hundreds of thousands of diapers given out, in July of 2021 its founders, Dean and Calista Scott, transferred operations to the United Way of Skagit County.

“We didn’t want to get this going and have it fall apart at the end. It feels good the United Way saw value in what we were doing and what the diaper bank was doing,” said Dean Scott. e Diaper Bank of Skagit County, which is one of only eight members of the National Diaper Bank Network in Washington state, takes donations of diapers or money and funnels the donated and purchased diapers to local partners such as WIC, SeaMar and others to distribute.

“Because diaper need impacts one in three families and disproportionately impacts families of color, United Way of Skagit County is continuing to ght for all families in our community through the work of the diaper bank,” United Way Executive Director Craig Chambers said in a release. Currently the Diaper Bank of Skagit County ran through the United Way of Skagit County distributes over 18,000 diapers a month to various partner organizations.

If you’re interested in donating funds or material to, or interested in becoming a partner of, the Diaper Bank of Skagit County, reach out to Ana Rivas via email at ana@ unitedwayskagit.org.”

Diaper Bank’s Mission

To ensure that families living in poverty have an adequate supply of diapers for their infants and toddlers; to raise community awareness that “basic human needs” include diapers and that these needs are not being met for children living in poverty; and to advocate for policy reform so that diapers are included in the definition of and provision for the “basic human needs” of families.