Clothing & Care
Program
WPE's Clothing & Care Program distributes new or premium lightly used clothing, shoes, diapers, toys, and children’s books to our neighbors in need. Clothing & Care partners with clothing retailers, boutiques, and individual donors to receive, sort, organize, and deliver high-quality goods free of charge. We treat clothing recipients as our family and show them love and respect, offering only our best.
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1.5 M
Clothing items, emergency supplies, toys, and books distributed
120K
Number of
people we serve
Clothing & Care
Program
WPE's Clothing & Care Program distributes new or premium lightly used clothing, shoes, diapers, toys, and children’s books to our neighbors in need. We partner with clothing retailers, boutiques, and individual donors, receiving, sorting, organizing, and delivering high-quality goods free of charge. We treat clothing recipients as our family and show them love and respect, offering only our best.
Clothing and Care Closets
People experiencing homelessness need long-term, predictable access to basic needs like clothing. WPE helps our partners expand their capacity to serve unsheltered people by offering clothing and other survival items through our Clothing & Care Closets. We partner with community warming centers and distribute life-saving cold weather clothing and goods through our Cold Weather Clothing Program.
Direct Distributions
Clothing & Care offers outfits with care through our Direct Partner Distributions. Agencies contact our program and sign up to be a recipient partners. Their clients are then given access to an online form where they input their clothing needs, including color and style preferences. Clothing is selected, beautifully bundled, and either picked up or delivered.
Mobile Boutiques
WPE’s most celebrated distribution events are our Mobile Boutiques, where we offer a store-like shopping experience in the heart of communities most in need. The Clothing & Care team promotes economic independence and uplifts lives by helping recipients with presentable interview and on-the-job attire and outfits that fit each shopper's unique needs.
At WPE we don’t see red tape – we see a need and we respond with love by giving what is needed. It is so simple you would think everyone would be doing it. I believe one day everyone will be doing it. - Eve Birge, WPE Executive Director
