GIVEAWAY: 5 Boxes of Back to School Clothes from Kidbox
A few weeks ago, Mazzy, Harlow and I were invited to a party thrown by Kidbox, a seasonal subscription box for kids’ clothes. The party was to celebrate their 2nd birthday and also to bring together their “Kid Board of Directors,” a group of kids selected because they share Kidbox’s philanthropic mission of helping others and giving back.
In fact, many of them have already started non-profits of their own. Sidney Keys III (age 12) started Books N Bros Reading Club, which facilitates meet ups of 7-12yo boys to encourage literacy and bring awareness to positive African American literature. Ella R. Tyron (age 8) has made it her mission to supply children’s hospitals with enough crayons for every child patient. And you might know Naomi Wadler (age 11) from her powerful speech at the March for Our Lives Rally in DC about the disproportionate number of black women and girls who are victims of gun violence.
Mazzy became fast friends with child actress and Kidbox Ambassador, Brooklynn Prince (age 8), who you might know from her award winning role in The Florida Project. She is an advocate for the Community Hope Center, a non-profit which assists low-income, poverty level families and individuals living in and around Osceola County, Florida.
It was really an honor to have Mazzy and Harlow in a room with all of these inspiring young kids, so they could see firsthand that you don’t have to be an adult to make a difference. We also learned that Kidbox has a mission of their own called “One Box at a Time.” Their goal is to help clothe as many children in need as possible by donating one item of clothing for every box sold.
I am always looking for brands that put “doing good” at the forefront of their business practices, so I am so excited to announce that I will be partnering with Kidbox this year.
To kick off our partnership, Mazzy and Harlow got to attend a session about bullying where they learned that positive messages can impact behavior and that clothing can help spread those messages.
All the kids in the room got the opportunity to design t-shirts with slogans centered around anti-bullying. They talked through their designs with Kidbox’s Design Director and picked color swatches for them to be made into real shirts that they can wear.
This is Mazzy’s:
This is Harlow’s:
After they completed their designs, Mazzy and Harlow were whisked away into another room where they got to unbox a summer box of Kidbox clothing. Unlike some of the other kid clothing subscription services, Kidbox contains both their own brand and a variety of other high quality brands. Mazzy and Harlow’s boxes contained clothing from brands like 7 for All Mankind, Splendid, Butter and more.
And I have to say, they really NAILED both Mazzy and Harlow’s style.
They’ve been wearing their summer clothes for the past few weeks and just got their Back-to-School boxes.
Harlow was so in love with her back-to-school items, that she got mad at the term “back-to-school” and demanded to wear her new off the shoulder shirt IMMEDIATELY. You can watch her her hilarious HOT TAKE on the term “back-to-school clothes” here.
Mazzy does not love dresses but she LOVES her new “The Future is Female” t-shirt dress and has been wearing it every single day when she gets home from camp.
There also was a plethora of unicorn themed attire to make everyone happy.
In each Kidbox (which is designed specifically so that kids can color the boxes), there are also fun alphabet stickers, a few fun gifts (like a pencil case and a water bottle in the back to school box) and a newspaper called “The Scribble.” Each Scribble has a theme, with helpful articles for both parents and kids, along with a spotlight on a charities they are supporting this season.
For back to school, anyone who keeps their full box gets to choose between donating to to a charity supporting homeless families, victims of domestic abuse, or Puerto Rico relief. Kidbox’s belief is that it’s never too early to start talking to your kids about ways to give back, so they created a really easy way to involve your kids and help them figure out what causes are most important to them. In addition to helping these charities, by the end of this summer, the company is on course to donate $8.5 million in new clothing, having clothed one million kids.
There are five seasonal boxes: spring, summer, back-to-school, fall and winter. You can sign your kids up, have them take their “style quiz,” and order your back to school box here!
GIVEAWAY: 5 boxes of back to school clothes
Do you want to win a back-to-school KidBox? I’m giving away three on the blog and two on Instagram! To enter to win, you must subscribe to my weekly newsletter (which you can do here) and comment below telling me your favorite cause or charity!
If you want additional chances to win, make sure to follow @mommyshorts on Instagram and watch for my pic!
WINNER UPDATE:
Congratulations to Rachel Baxa, Corissa Stobing, Ana Mushro, Sarah Umm Madiha and Genelle D’Ambrosio! Please email allie@mommyshorts.com to claim your prize!
Mothers Demand, girl!!!
Our local breakfast club program. It’s so hard to believe that so many kids come to school with no breakfast / little to no lunch. It’s so easy to donate to – as most of the local stores ask for donations to the program.
Kidbox sounds like an amazing company!
We love to donate books and toys to children’s therapy centers and children’s hospitals.
Subscribed! Ronald McDonald House.
Our family loves CWS, a refugee resettlement organization. We’ve made such good friends with people from around the world.
No kid hungry
Fast, pray, give
St. Jude
Make-A-Wish and Ronald McDonald House are very dear to my heart. They were both wonderful when my 15 year old sister was battling cancer.
Michael J. Fox foundation. It’s for parkinsons’s. My dad has had it for 10 years and his quality of life has diminished. I would love to see a cure for this!
My favorite charity is A21, a global non-profit fighting against human trafficking and helping to rehabilitate those that have been victims.
The Human Trafficking Institute
https://www.traffickinginstitute.org
Ronald McDonald House and Make-A-Wish charities are two that are very close to my heart. They did amazing things for my baby cousin.
The Blue Ribbon Project is a local charity that works to support kids in foster care who are uprooted without any personal items. Important work for these vulnerable kiddos.
Make a wish…Those clothes are cute, and I love the color on the box idea.
the isaac foundation! they support families in my community who have been touched by autism.
There are so many good charities and organizations, so I’ll narrow it down to a couple of my favorites: Planned Parenthood, the ALS Association, and our local children’s hospital.
Our girls help collect donations for the local Jewish Family Services food bank. We also donate our gently used winter coats to our local rescue mission.
Children with hair loss. Both my girls have donated their hair to them.
Near and dear to my heart is suicide awareness. My dad took his own life 18 years ago this week.
Two by two animal rescue
Leukemia and lymphoma society in honor of my dad ❤️❤️
One of my favorite charities is Midwest Therapeutic Riding Program where my daughter and many other children receive therapeutic horseback riding lessons every week. We have seen great improvement in her muscle tone and speech since starting.
Hope Family Care Ministries is an organization that helps parents get through the loss of a child. A good friend of mine lost her two year old in a tragic accident a year ago and has become a huge part of this organization. I’ve seen the struggle a parent goes through during that time and they make sure the parents know they are not alone.
Animal Protective League – volunteer no kill shelter. We always add items from their wish list to our weekly shopping list. And of course all pets have been adopted there.
susan g komen
make a wish is my favorite
Catholic relief services, for their refugee relief efforts.
My sister-in-law needed life saving heart surgeryat 17 days old. She is alive today because of sick kids hospital in Toronto. We donate regularly knowing that they not only help children and families in Canada, but around the world!
My family always tries to help children’s charities. We love Kidd’s Kids. They do Disney trips for children with medical needs and their families.
My favorite charity is donating to primary children’s hospital, because I know so many families who have received help from the amazing hospital there.
Our favorite is St Jude’s Hospital!
My favorite cause/charity is Wounded Warrior Project. My husband is a Wounded Warrior and we have seen all the great things this organization does for not only the military member but their families.
Planned parenthood! We need to be more for women and expensive and easy access to healthcare, as well to support! Planned parenthood does more then just abortions and people need to learn and see that! And for all the hassle they get they need all the support we can give
Inexpensive 🤦🏼‍♀️
Local homeless shelters or local charities.
Children’s hospitals
CHOC
CHKD
ST LOUIS Children’s hospital
Children’s hospital of Colombia,MO
Jdrf
American cancer society
Snack Packs for Kids. It’s a local charity in San Antonio that helps food insecure children all year long!
Samaritan Village – fighting sex trafficking.
My favorite charity is toms one to one and giving back shoes and eyeglasses to those in need.
Ride to Give and Make a Wish
There are many amazing charities, but keeping it local…Our local food bank does so much for the community. Food of course, but 500+ backpacks full of school supplies, 1000+ recipients of 3 Christmas gifts that their parents/guardians may choose from a “store” set up.
National Kidney Foundation! Kidney disease is so under radar but it affects 30 million people!
I love The ACLU, especially in today’s political climate, and The Attic Youth Center, Philadelphia’s LGBTQ youth center that serves over 1,000 youth a year. Would love to win for my twin girls!
I have followed you on IG for years and am excited to sign up for your newsletter! My twin girls are the same age as Harlow so a lot of my parenting experiences have been in lockstep with yours. My girls were born 11 weeks early so we have supported the March of Dimes for the past 5 years. We are even our local area’s ambassador family this year! 🙂
Among other things, we support our local food pantry. Hunger is everywhere, and empty bellies = distracted kiddos.
Ronald McDonald or newborns in need
My favorite charity is one that I volunteer with, rescuing leftovers. We take leftovers from restaurants that would normally throw away unused food to homeless shelters, soup kitchens and children’s shelters.
Awesome idea and I love to see organizations everyone supports! We like make a wish, feed my people and donating blood!
We love to support our local libraries.
we like helping out and supporting our local homeless shelter and food bank.
Backpacks for Kids, Jump Rope for Heart, & American Cancer Society
Planned parenthood 🙂
there is a charity located local to me called “The Allyson Whitney Foundation” which gives grants to young people affected by rare cancers.
Cradles to crayons and our local foodbank – been organizing volunteers at both of these great charities!
I love the Ronald McDonald House! It made such a difference when my niece was born at 27 weeks gestation and my brothers family lived 1 1/2 away from the hospital!
NRDC and Doctors without Borders
We love volunteering every year with Meals A Million. Basically we spent 3 hour packing mac and cheese to be given to those in need. My 4 and 6 year old daughters were champs!
I love the “sleep in heavenly peace” charity. With the motto of “No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in Our Town.” it provides bunk beds to kids/ families who would otherwise be sleeping on the floor.
I love kidbox! i started getting them after i saw Mazzy open her first one. such cute clothes i love to support the no hungry kids charity.
CASA and the ACLU are two favorites!
Children’s healthcare of Atlanta. The work they do in their children that they help and cure is astonishing !
Planned parenthood. Or Taylor’s Tale (fighting Batten Disease and other rare diseases).
Kids food basket part of feeding america
St. Jude
AYSO 139. ( 100% volunteer soccer league )
We give to the local organisations doing community based conservation projects in Micronesia (where my husband is from, a little bit of money goes a long way there)…. With my now 5 year old we also started doing the last night of Hanukkah as giving night. We call up the local hospital and find out how many kids they have on the children ward and ages and gender. MY son then put together gift bags and then went and delivered them.
Always looking for cool clothes for my boys. Not easy to find at the store.
Love St. Jude and Millie’s princess foundation which benefits kids with childhood cancer
Path of Life Ministries!
Make a Wish
Would have to say St Jude Children’s Research Hospital and PBS!
My favorite organizations is make a wish Foundation and dipper banks
St Jude or our local children’s hospital.
Random Acts. This charity spreads kindness and charitable giving around the globe.
We support the State of Maine society for the protection of animals, as well as Make A Wish, and St. Jude’s, among others. We have 5 kids, so we tend to help out in many different ways in our community through scouting as well.
Already subscribed and I love that Kidbox sends to Puerto Rico! Thanks for the chance!!
Every Mother Counts. I think the whole world could use a bit more support for women. This charity funds maternal care in developing nations and supports change to barriers for mothers seeking care in developed nations.
@clhway on instagram
National Fragile X Foundation
American Cancer Society
I listed some on the Instagram post, but her are some more that I think are ding a lot of good.
Ronald McDonald House
ACLU (I know, it’s a non-profit, so maybe not technically a charity, but the help they are providing separated families is important)
Best Friends Animal Society
I love Kids-TALK through The Guidance Center, which works with kids who have experienced trauma. I’m actually interning there, working with the kiddos who have experienced trauma.
i donate to Attitudes and Attire supporting women who are victims of domestic violence.
I’ve had my eye on Kidbox and it’s nice to see how involved they are.
My fave charities are local ones that support children in need.
My favorite organization is EIS, it stands for emergency infant services. I had the opportunity to volunteer there for a while and it was incredible. Pregnant mothers and young children are their focus. They help with food, clothing, and other necessities while providing information or referrals for the rest of the family that may be in need of help. I hope to volunteer again once I am done with school.
I love Feed My Starving Children!!!
I often work with children who have undergone trauma such as homelessness, witnessed domestic violence or some sort of abuse so any charity helping these causes or supporting mental health are causes I support!
Our family’s favorite charity is St. Jude’s. I was diagnosed with Stage IV Hodgkin’s lymphoma almost exactly 10 years ago right after my daughter’s 1st birthday. It’s considered a children’s cancer, so it’s research like theirs that allows me to be here now with my family. We also support Met Up, a charity created by the late mommy blogger Beth Caldwell to support metastatic breast cancer research.
Definitely Puerto Rico relief! After that devastating hurricane my island and my people need all the help they can get!
My favorite charity would be First Book, they give books to low income children. Literacy is so important!!
Ronald McDonald House
IRAP
humane society!
My favorite charities are C.H.AD. because when my grandson wasn’t getting the help I knew he desperately needed and our local hospital just ignored us we ended up at the C.H.A.D hospital in Lebanon, NH where my daughter and I were told he was essentially starving for 3 days and they did surgery right away. They are so great with the kids and guide us (family) to what we should expect and how to support our kids.
Also I love charities that are about Diabetes, Heart and Mental Health. All three are very much a part of my life. My Dad and I both have diabetes and neuropathy that is due to the diabetes. My Dad had rheumatic fever at the age of 10 years old and since then he has had SEVERAL surgeries and still on the edge of going through another open-heart surgery. Mental Health is due to my daughter, now my grandson and myself. It is a battle we fight daily and I brought my daughter up to have the mindset that every day that we make it through then that is a WIN for us. We have dealt with a friend and a family member who committed suicide. My daughter and I both about six months ago got tattoos that are the semi-colon which stands for “Suicide Awareness”.
My daughters and I are fundraising this month fo Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation which helps supports children with cancer. Cheers to doing good with our purchasing power!
Planned Parenthood and our local public radio/tv stations are our favorites.
Make-a-wish- foundation!
Favorite org: Futures Without Violence , ending violence against women and children
I donate and volunteer at my local Foodbank. Foodbanks are an immediate source of food and other essentials for people and families. Sadly, I know from experience what it felt like to go hungry more times than I care to remember growing up. Smaller communities suffer from lack of donations most of the time. I’m happy to help when I’m able to.
My favs are Ronald McDonald house and make a wish!
As our own. Rescuing girls from the future life of prostitution in India.
March of Dimes and our local Humane Society are our favorites.