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Did you know that AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County every time you shop, at no cost to you?

It’s easy. Go to smile.amazon.com, log in to your Amazon account, and then select “Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County” as your charity of choice. Nothing changes with your account, your shopping cart, your wish lists, etc. For future purchases, you’ll just need to remember to start at smile.amazon.com (as opposed to amazon.com). That’s it!

The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County. Learn more about AmazonSmile.

And while you’re shopping on Amazon, please take look at our Amazon Wish List too! We keep this list updated with the clothing items needed to provide a full week’s wardrobe of school clothing for eligible children (plus extras when available). Working with a personal shopper, the kids shop for the clothing they like best in the CTKF Store.

You are going to see a lot of purple moving forward at Clothes To Kids. It’s because we’re rolling out our new logo. It’s a purple coat.

Why purple? Why a coat? The story goes like this…

On a rare, cold Florida morning, Marie McClung (Co-Founder of Clothes To Kids) got a call from her sister. She had a little girl in her classroom who wouldn’t be able to go outside for gym class without a jacket. Marie ran to the store and bought a purple coat in just the right size. When she dropped off the coat Marie was touched by the deep gratitude of this little girl, who looked up at her smiling big brown eyes and offered a huge hug!

In spring 2002 Marie was telling the story of the little girl and the purple coat to Jode Eye (CTK’s other Co-Founder). It sounded all too familiar to Jode, who had many students without adequate clothing, they even lacked socks and underwear. Together, Jode and Marie were determined that every child should have a coat to wear at recess, and school clothing so that they could go to school and focus on learning. Clothes To Kids was born.

Bringing the CTK vision to Fairfield County

Clothes To Kids has come a long way since that first purple coat. Over the years multiple CTK affiliates have opened around the country, inspired by the wonderful work being done by the founders. Each one dedicated to bringing happiness and improved self esteem, and of course quality school clothing, to low income and in crisis school-age children in their own local communities.

As you may already know, Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County is a proud affiliate! In fall 2015, Executive Director Elaine Rubinson began mobilizing volunteers and we welcomed our first shoppers to the CTK of Fairfield County store in October 2016.

We are excited to share this story about the purple coat and why its meaning is a symbol of our mission, along with our tagline, Clothe a Kid, Change a Life.

AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County every time you shop!

It’s as easy as going to smile.amazon.com and use your regular Amazon login. Nothing changes with your account, your shopping cart, your wish lists, etc. For all future purchases, start at smile.amazon.com (as opposed to amazon.com). The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County.

While you’re out there, check out our new Amazon Wish List!  It includes clothing items needed to create the full week’s wardrobe that eligible children “shop” for in our CTKF Store.

Thank you!!

Did you know that AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County every time you shop, at no cost to you?

It’s easy. Go to smile.amazon.com, log in to your Amazon account, and then select “Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County” as your charity of choice. Nothing changes with your account, your shopping cart, your wish lists, etc. For future purchases, you’ll just need to remember to start at smile.amazon.com (as opposed to amazon.com). That’s it!

The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County. Learn more about AmazonSmile here.

While you’re on Amazon, check out our Amazon Wish List!  It includes clothing items needed to create the full week’s wardrobe that eligible children “shop” for in our CTKF Store.

Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County is an exciting new nonprofit to help ease the financial burden on low-income families, and build self-esteem in children. Our mission is to provide new and quality used clothing to low-income school-age children, or children in crisis, free of charge. We envision a community in which all children have quality clothing so that they may attend school with the confidence and self-esteem needed to achieve academic success.

We have already received some donations of good quality clothing from family and friends. Our goal is to be fully stocked and ready to open our doors by spring of 2016, in a unique store-like setting where parents can shop with dignity and children can browse for their own style and size.

Volunteers and donors alike are needed to make this new project a success. Whether in the form of money, clothing or time, we ask that you join our cause and donate to Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County. Your contribution, whatever the amount and time, will be the catalyst that moves our venture forward.