Project Night Night helps give homeless children in shelters a special canvas tote filled with some of the essentials of childhood to help them feel secure and loved. The organization each year helps distribute 25,000 totes filled with a new blanket, stuffed animal, and a book, ready for kids in need at shelters across the country. For the next two and a half weeks, you can help fulfill a major Project Night Night delivery at no cost to you and next to no effort.
Between today and Nov. 22, Bay Area company Slidelane will donate one filled bag for every new user who registers on their site. It’s free to register, and you can even sign up using Facebook, making your effort not more than two or so clicks. There is no obligation to do anything else. A few clicks and a homeless child gets a great bag of love. Seriously. I just did it in between sentences, using the email sign in method, which took about four clicks and 30 seconds.
Slidelane aims to be a “Yelp for Parents,” with recommendations on local places, outings, and services, with tips from other parents, like order two flavors in one scoop at Bi-Rite Creamery or that Patxi’s in the Marina hosts Tuesday Family Nights.
The Project Night Night website has more information on how you can help get totes to a shelter near you. They make a great organization for holiday charitable donations (hint, hint).
The Slidelane donation was brought to our attention by a reader in San Francisco who learned about Project Night Night a few years ago when a tote came home from preschool with instructions on how to participate. She was looking for a place to volunteer with her children and Project Night Night turned out to be a perfect, age appropriate act that they could do together. Thank you, Carissa.
Kimberly,
Thank you for featuring us on your blog and for this amazing opportunity we have with Slidelane. We serve every family and domestic violence shelter in the Bay Area and are thrilled that your readers now know about us!
Sincerely,
Kendra Robins
Founder and Executive Director
Project Night Night
kendra@projectnightnight.org
This is a great project, I signed up for it right away. Thanks for the tip! As a new parent living in the Bay Area, I’m glad my registration went towards providing a tote bag for a child in need. I’m just bummed that all the resources on Sideline are specific only to San Francisco. Hopefully they’ll expand to the South Bay at some point.
Agreed! We imagine that once users populate the site more, the locations covered will expand naturally.