Our model follows the example of the Southern Arizona Community Diaper Bank, the nation's first, founded in Tucson in 1994 (read here about their history and inspiration).
The model recognizes that people and families who need diapers most likely need other social services as well. Instead of creating another separate social service delivery channel, the Diaper Bank partners with established nonprofits who are already qualifying people for need and working with them toward "whole" solutions. We partner with family services agencies, homeless shelters, crisis nurseries, domestic abuse shelters, food pantries, senior agencies, faith-based outreach organizations, disability networks and state human services agencies -- we become their diaper resource, increasing their capacity to more fully support our neighbors in need.
Founder and
Executive Director
Marybeth A. Levine
Board of Directors
Marybeth A. Levine
Steven H. Levine
John K. Burnham
Melissa A. Freel
Mary Jo Kripowicz
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making a difference with diapers™
About Us
The Detroit Area Diaper Bank, Inc., is a nonprofit charity based in
Canton and serving all of Southeast Michigan, launched April 12, 2009.
Our mission is to build a network to help meet the unmet need for diapers in our community's most vulnerable populations -- babies from low-income households, the elderly and people with disabilities. There is no assistance for diapers, they're not paid for or provided by WIC, Food Stamps or Medicare. Diapers are a huge hole in the "safety net."
Our vision is a community in which people who need diapers but don't have adequate resources can get diapers - helping preserve their health, independence and dignity.
Tax ID #:
26-4627786
MICS License #: 43608
Associations: Canton Chamber of Commerce
Great Start Collaborative - Wayne, Basic Needs Group Macomb Great Start Collaborative Parent Coalition
Building Community Partnerships Circle of Care of Western Wayne County Oakland Parenting Awareness Michigan The National Diaper Bank Network
# of diapers, pull-ups and incontinence supplies distributed
to partners since
April 27, 2009:
Diaper Collection
Coordinator
Bruce M. Will
1,085,306
