We’re celebrating our 15th anniversary with a benefit featuring David Cross & Friends at The Bell House in Brooklyn on Saturday, July 12, 7:30 PM

If you can’t attend the event, you can still support by becoming a sponsor:

• $50 for the 5 boroughs that Little Essentials has served since 2011.

• $100 for the 100+ community partners and their 65,000+ families helped since our founding.

• $1,500 marking our 15th anniversary and our holistic approach to fighting poverty by providing children's essentials, education programs, and job opportunities.

Platinum Sponsorship

$14,000 – Marking 1.4 million diapers distributed to 63,000 children since 2011. 

• Your $14,000 sponsorship will help us distribute 500,000+ diapers this year.

• Honored at our 2025 Heart of LE Gala.

• Recognition in our monthly newsletter and on all social media platforms.

• Platinum sponsorship acknowledgment on our website.

Gold Sponsorship

$10,000 – Representing our 100 community partners, the social service organizations that place orders for essential baby items. 

• Your $10,000 contribution will ensure that Little Essentials distributes diapers, strollers, clothing, books, and toys to 10,000+ children ages 0-5 this year.

• Recognition on all Little Essentials social media platforms.

• Gold sponsorship acknowledgment on our website.

Silver Sponsorship

$5,000 – Honoring our work in all five beloved NYC boroughs, serving 30,000 families since 2011.

• Your $5000 sponsorship will help create employment opportunities for unemployed New Yorkers who help us provide essential items for families. 

• Recognition on all Little Essentials social media platforms.

 Donate Items

Thank you for donating your new and gently used items for children (ages newborn to 5 years old). Because of people like you, we have provided urgently needed items to more than 63,000 children in New York City.

Your in-kind donation is tax deductible. Please print a tax receipt and submit to your accountant.

Items We Accept

• Diapers (Please bag and separate loose diapers by size.)

• Donate diapers and high need items through Amazon or Walmart.

• Spring and Summer clothing and shoes (size newborn to 5 years)

• Wipes, diaper cream, baby body wash (unopened)

• Pack ‘n plays and bassinets

• Car seats – infant, toddler, booster sanitized/no crumbs or stains - a car seat waiver is required

• Baby carriers and slings

• Receiving blankets, sleep sacks and swaddles

• Strollers – single and double (no jogging strollers; sanitized/no crumbs or stains; snap and go strollers must come with car seat)

• Books – appropriate for ages newborn to 5 years

• Toys – appropriate for ages newborn to 5 years (up to one bag ONLY, no stuffed animals, no large items, no small pieces (for gently used toys) fresh batteries please)

• PPE/Masks – adults and children (new only)

• Hand Sanitizer (unopened)

• Disinfecting cleaning wipes (unopened)

• Disposable gloves (unopened)

• Paper Towels (unopened)
  

Items We DO NOT Accept

• Car seats that do not have a detachable base

• Baby bouncers

• Jogging strollers

• Stuffed animals or large toys (e.g. bicycles, play kitchens, walkers)

• Nursing pillows and cover-Ups

• Baby formula and food

• Breast pumps

• High chairs and booster chairs

• Bottles and bibs

• Cribs, crib bedding, mattresses and mobiles

• Exersaucers, swings and walkers

• Baby gates

• Tubs

• Maternity clothing

• Furniture

PURCHASE ITEMS TO SUPPORT OUR OPERATIONS

We are always most in need of diapers, wipes and infant hygiene items, as well as supplies that allow us to provide orders to the families we serve. These high need items include:

• Rubber bands (for assembling at least three bundles of clothing per child in need)

• White trash bags (for recycling unusable textiles and shoes through our partner, donateNYC)

• Tags (for labelling orders for families and partners)

You can find our high need supply wish list here.