Every child on this block is our child.
Commune is a network of neighbors pooling diapers, formula, school supplies, and emergency foster care stipends so no child falls through the cracks.
340+
neighbors giving
1,200+
children helped
100%
to families
Proof this is working,
one family at a time.
this week
47 diaper packs distributed. 12 cans of formula. Every single one went to a family on the waitlist before Thursday.
Tuesday drop-offs at Lincoln Elementary. No sign-up needed — just bring what you can.
Three weeks in, I had nothing.
"The placement came on a Friday at 4pm. I had two hours to get ready for a four-year-old I'd never met. Commune had a bag at my door by 7pm — pajamas, a stuffed animal, pull-ups, crackers. I cried in the driveway. That bag was the whole neighborhood saying: we've got you."
Denise W.
Emergency foster parent, zip 60621
What we need right now
Every Tuesday
Marcus at Alma's Kitchen donates whatever's left at close. 8 families eat tonight.
You know exactly where
this money goes.
Every dollar is matched to a specific item on a specific family's list. We don't hold reserves or run overhead campaigns. When you give $35, a can of formula leaves the shelf.
Prefer to give supplies?
View the live wish list$35 → A week of formula for a newborn
Secure · Tax-deductible · 100% to families
Your neighbors are already here.
You know these people.
Roberta Osei-Mensah
Retired 3rd grade teacher, 34 years
"I taught half these kids. When I retired I thought I'd have to stop. Now I drop off coats and crayons every October. I know where they go. I've seen the kids wearing them."
Marcus Delgado
Owner, Alma's Kitchen
"Tuesday nights we package whatever's left. Used to feel bad throwing it away. Now it feeds eight families and my cook stays an extra hour because he wants to. That changed something."
Priya & Jordan Nkemdirim
Parents of two, ages 3 and 6
"Two years ago we were the ones getting the diapers. Our youngest was in the NICU and we couldn't afford the drive, let alone the supplies. Now we give $35 a month. It's not charity. It's memory."
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Give to a Family Today
Every child on this block is our child.
It takes $35 a month. It takes a bag of clothes you're not using. It takes telling one neighbor this exists. Start with any of those.