How to Help: As school year begins, Note in the Pocket seeks donations, funding to cloth kids in need
Note in the Pocket, the local nonprofit that provides kids in need with a school wardrobe, is still hard at work -- even if students in Wake County won't begin the school year inside a classroom.
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Note in the Pocket, the local nonprofit that provides kids in need with a school wardrobe, is still hard at work — even if students in Wake County won't begin the school year inside a classroom.
The group's goal is to provide clothing to impoverished and homeless schoolchildren in Wake County with dignity and love. And they are always collecting gently used or new clothing of all sizes (because school children have baby siblings and high school students wear adult sizes). In 2019 alone, the group served more than 4,500 children and adults across Wake County, delivering nearly 125,000 clothing items to them.
When schools closed in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit's access to families decreased dramatically. It often works with school guidance counselors to connect with families in need. So it had to to shift its operations. It recently partnered with local Boys & Girls Clubs and other community groups to deliver clothing. And it's begun to participate in the Boys & Girls Club's Friday Food Pantry hours, bringing clothing that families can pick out for free.
The nonprofit also has opened a temporary second location at Crossroads Fellowship in north Raleigh to continue to collect clothes.
"We have been creative, persistent and, at times, excited by the opportunities and new partnerships that have come from this challenging time," Dallas Bonavita, Note in the Pocket's executive director, wrote in a recent email to supporters.
Even though school will be different this fall, they are still focused on getting students what they need.
"Whether students are seated in a classroom or participating in a virtual classroom, they need to feel comfortable, confident and dressed for academic success," Bonavita wrote.
The nonprofit specifically needs new or gently used clothes that are appropriate for all sizes of children and adults. They also take new (not used) packages of clothing and socks. Note in the Pocket is happy to take what you have, but they do have some urgent needs.
Right now, those urgent needs are:
- Short sleeve T-shirts, sizes 5, 8 & 12
- Pants, sizes 5 & 16
- Underwear, sizes 16 & 18
- Tennis shoes, size 13 and 4.5
- Short sleeve T-shirts, sizes 5, 7, 8
- Pants, sizes 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16 & 18 - regular
- Underwear, size 8
- Tennis shoes, sizes 11.5, 2.5 & 5
- Women's pants, preferably jeans, size 14 & 16
- Women's shirts, long sleeve shirts and sweaters, size medium
- Women's underwear, all sizes
- Women's tennis shoes, sizes 8.5, 9, 9.5, 10 & 10.5
- Men's shirts, short sleeve T-shirts, sizes medium & large
- Men's underwear, boxers or briefs, size 28-30 & 32-34
- Men's tennis shoes, sizes 8, 8.5 & 9
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