Baby Stuff Swap Fundraiser

We're hosting a community-wide Baby Stuff Swap Fundraiser in support of Natural Resources. This is your chance to clear out your lightly used baby things, rotate your toys, and trade out for lightly used goodies for your kiddo's next chapter.

How it works:
- Buy a $20 ticket for event entry (we will also sell tickets day-of/walk-ins welcome)
- Bring your lightly used baby and kiddo stuff
- Browse the full collection of pre-loved goodies and bring home something "new"

Your ticket or day-of donation of $20 gets you 1 bag's worth of take-home goodies. Please BYOBags! You can pay an additional $20 per extra bag. Large items (i.e. bouncers, baby carriers) will each count as 1 bag.

You can drop off items at Natural Resources on Friday, 3/7 between 4:00-6:00p, or bring with you to the event on 3/8. Your help is appreciated to sort/organize your donated items.

*ACCEPTABLE ITEMS:
- New or lightly used baby and toddler clothing, toys, or books (please, no rips or stains - please wash all item before donating!)
- Children's new or lightly used clothing, gear, or accessories (through TK/K age)
- New or lightly used/still functioning baby gear (strollers, bouncers, etc. - please no car seats due to safety concerns)
- Diapers, wipes, formula (open packages of diapers okay!, please, only sealed formula or wipe packs)
- Lightly used maternity or postpartum items for parents (please, only sealed health/nutrition items)

Any leftover items will be generously donated through Natural Resource's nonprofit partners.

Babies and kiddos are welcome! We will have a play area and kiddo-friendly snacks.

UNACCEPTABLE ITEMS
Please, be respectful and thoughtful about what you can donate! While we appreciate the generous intention, leaving items that are in unacceptable condition forces us to have to spend organizational time & funds in hauling items to the dump, which nobody wants! We cannot accept items that are dirty, broken, chipped, cracked, scratched, smelly, stained, worn out, torn, wet, moldy, rusty, frayed, disassembled, incomplete, or have spent time exposed to the elements or to pet hair.
We also cannot accept:
-BREAST PUMPS
-Car seats
-Furniture
-Bed frames, bean bags, mattresses, futons
-Rugs
-Used bedsheets, blankets, pillows, or towels
-Household furnishings
-Yoga mats
-Humidifiers, dehumidifiers, air purifiers
-Used or unpackaged pumping supplies, pump parts, pacifiers, etc

Questions? Please contact Morgan Chaney-Arnold at morgan.a.chaney@gmail.com.

🎁 $ DONATIONS WELCOME 🎁 and will go towards our It Takes a Village Fundraising campaign to build + maintain our "Nurture Nest" Play Space + Parent Lounge at NR.

Please note:  In hosting this event, Natural Resources is acting only as a facilitator of peer-to-peer exchange, and makes no implication of the safety or suitability of any swap items. Participants should exercise their own judgment in accepting items for their own use, and they do so at their own risk. 

•  
  

  
  

•  
  

  Kyle Casey Chu (Panda Dulce) is a San Francisco born-and-raised writer and one of the founding queens of the Drag Story Hour. Her work centers Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC) stories, atraditional chosen families and displaced San Franciscans.

  In June 2022, far-right extremists stormed her Drag Queen Story Hour. After authorities (somehow) failed to identify, disperse or cite the extremists, she finished the reading for the children and their families.

  She is now leveraging her international platform to tell even bolder QTPOC stories to global audiences. Kyle's work has been featured on Vogue, NPR, NBC, HuffPost, VICE, Paramount+, Prime Video, them.us, at SXSW, the Harvard & MIT's Broad Institute, as part of the White House's "It's On Us" campaign, and more. Her writing has received awards from the Sundance Institute, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the California Arts Council. ​Most recently, she is the creator of the forthcoming all-QTPOC web series: CHOSEN FAM. The series is currently under consideration for national distribution.