With Love,

Its official!  With Love, is a bona fide non-profit organization!  We're legit!

Around this time last year, a group of us, lead by our fearless leader, Allie Roth, sat down and began to plot our future.  The vision was simple: provide and lend safe, clean and quality clothing and supplies to children in foster care, ages 0 - 5.  We started small, first with our website, then with our super cute logos.

Then the donations started coming in.  And I mean pouring in.

These lovely items quickly began to engulf Allie's home.

But that did not detour us.  Allie happily held sorting parties in her living room, where groups of fantastic volunteers gathered to sort through all the donations and bundle clothing into sets to be given away.

Then, starting in September, we joined forces with Foster Parent Night Out, a partnership between a number of churches and non-profit organizations and DHS to provide a safe and fun venue for foster parents to drop off their kiddos (foster and biological) with certified volunteers for a four hour break.

When parents are dropping off their kids, we snag those who have children in foster care ages 5 and younger and load them up with whatever swag we have for the month, including bundles of clothing, toys, books, and consumables.

Then earlier this year, Scott and Allie found us the perfect storage unit.  Two stories, with a bathroom and play room for kids.  We put the word out and an army of volunteers showed up to help us move.

And within two months one of the other unit's owners abandoned their stuff and the complex's management let us raid their unit for whatever we needed.

Our storage unit went from this:

To this:

And it only keeps getting better, thanks to our dear friend, Ciara.  Now sorting parties are held at the storage unit with complete supplies.

We have mom's groups, bible study groups, groups of friends, high school students, and even Brownie Troops volunteering their time and resources.

We even have our board meetings there now, and after collecting everything from the abandoned unit, we even have real chairs to sit in.

THEN, this month, only one year after launching, we got our official 501(c)3 status notice from the IRS, almost a year ahead of schedule, thanks our Treasurer, Kelsy, who painstakingly filled out and send in our application, which was accepted with no revisions.  If you've ever tried to become a non-profit, you know how rare that is.

And now we're on GuideStar, the unofficial site of vetting non-profits.

We've been at this a year, but it feels like this is just the beginning!