Hopes Closet provides free clothing, equipment, blankets, shoes, books and toys (A Bundle of Hope) for children and families in need. We strive to deliver our services in a dignified manner by easing an immediate burden, allowing families to focus on other areas of their lives. There are no eligibility requirements to receive our services and families may come back multiple times a year as children outgrow items.
We support sustainable living and offer an easy way for families to recycle outgrown children’s items to benefit other children in need.
While we are blessed by donations of gently worn clothing, we are often short on the basics of socks, shoes and new undergarments. Every child deserves to have these basic clothing necessities to be new when at all possible. We use donated funds to thriftly shop for these items but requests have grown exponentially in the last year. We provide up to 300 bundles a month and still cannot meet the demand.
Hopes Closet serves the most vulnerable of our community of Santa Cruz county children.
Hopes Closet is a lifesaver to me and my children. I call and they answer with a Bundle of Hope. I am so grateful they are here for us.
M. R., parent, Watsonville
