We Build Comfort Kits for Children In Need
Our Beginnings
Kits for Kids began in 2006 through the donation of three kits to at-need children. From there, it grew into the organization it is today, donating thousands of kits per year and holding countless community events. We have been recognized throughout Massachusetts and the greater New England area for our work. In 2018, we were named the Entrepreneur of the Year by the Marlborough Regional Chamber of Commerce and that same year we were featured on WFSB’s “Better Connecticut” segment. More recently in 2023, we won the award for Nonprofit of the Year. Numerous articles have also been written about Kits for Kids by many major publications within the Greater Boston area.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide comfort, aid, and simple happiness to children and teens experiencing poverty, displacement, and various other forms of instability. Through community outreach and organizing, we learn the needs of a community’s displaced children, and then do our best to provide for it. To some, a box of toys, winter clothing, and hygiene or healthcare products might not amount to a lot. But to some children it can mean everything. Our organization is also centered around building community engagement with this issue. Through kit-building events, where community members are asked to put these kits together and prepare them for delivery, we are providing them an education on how pervasive child poverty and instability might be in their own hometowns. This education is priceless and has moved countless people to further engage with this issue at a local level.
