Over 500 children enter the foster care system each day and most of them may be removed from their home with their belongings stuffed in a trash bag. These children have been neglected and often feel like they don’t matter.
A Day 1 Bag provides children entering the foster care system a sense of dignity and hope. How can a “bag” give dignity or hope? We know because each bag is of the highest quality, anyone would be proud to own, and with so much room for their only treasures. Dignity, not trash, is what we believe is needed during their traumatic times.
United Texas Credit Union
Account: Day 1 Bags
Donor Advised Funds are an easy, tax-efficient way to manage charitable donations. Donor Advised Funds allow donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction, and then recommend grants from the fund over time for Day 1 Bags.
Day 1 Bags is proud to be a resource and partner to several of the United States’ largest Donor Advised Fund sponsor organizations and their philanthropic services teams. We are well-versed in the mechanics of Donor Advised Fund giving and the applicable IRS regulations. Our team performs due diligence on every grant recommendation to ensure that your grant money will be used for charitable purposes towards the Day 1 Bags mission. You can make single or recurring grants, either with recognition or with total anonymity. Clients of Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, and BNY Mellon can easily make a designation through the DAF Direct window on this page.
Day 1 Bags Tax ID Number is 84-5024295
Make checks/money orders payable to
Day 1 Bags
C/O Hunter Beaton
118 Lake Front Dr
Boerne, TX 78006
The only way Day 1 Bags can fulfill these FREE bag requests is through your donations. We will do our best to fulfill EVERY order. However, if there are not enough donations to cover the cost, we will contact you to work with you on an alternative bag or backpack from other non-profits OR we can fundraise for the bags. Your donations are vital to the youth we serve.
We ship them to our partner foster agencies across the continental U.S.
Dear [Legislator Name],
Right now, … children are living in foster care in ….
Each year, approximately … children enter care.
No child should carry their life in a trash bag.
This is a small investment to protect dignity during one of the hardest days of a child’s life.
I respectfully ask you to support legislation or agency policy ensuring no child entering foster care is given a trash bag for their belongings.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[City, State]
CC: dignitynottrash@gmail.com
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