Summer 2024 Newsletter

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Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County (CTKF) has been very busy this summer getting ready to reopen its store for personal shopping appointments. After taking a brief pause the past month to reorganize the store for the fall, CTKF is resuming appointments on Tuesday, August 20, 2024.

Inside the Summer newsletter:

  • Stamford Twins Sell Lemonade to Benefit CTKF
  • Greystar Apartments Gives Back
  • Summer Interns Make An Impact
  • CTKF’s Volunteer Michael Shares His Experience
  • Save the Date! Comedy Show Fundraiser, October 7, 2024
  • Save the Date! Join our team and ride the 2025 Five Boro Bike Tour in NYC, May 4, 2025
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Volunteers Needed!

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Helps us change the lives of kids in need, by volunteering as a Personal Shopper in our Stamford CT Store. We welcome volunteers who can give a little or a lot of their time! (and have so much fun giving back too!).

Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County is 100% volunteer-operated nonprofit. Volunteers are a critical component to providing a quality service to children in our community. We are currently looking for adult volunteers to work as “personal shoppers” directly with our kids and their families to help them select clothing during their visit. The smiles of the kids and parents after they choose their wardrobe make it an experience you will never forget .

You can volunteer 1x a week, 2x a week, 2x a month or more. Our CTKF Store is open by appointment only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. To maintain client privacy, volunteers must be 18 years of age or older (and high school graduates) to help shoppers in the front of the store.

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Spring 2024 Newsletter

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Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County (CTKF) is grateful to have the support of our donors and volunteers as we get ready for a new season! Summer is a favorite time of year for so many children. To be able to provide families with summer clothing for their children that not only keeps them cool on hot days, but is clean and fits them properly, means so much.

Your generous support allows CTKF to distribute shorts, tank tops, t-shirts, dresses, sandals and new bathing suits to children whose families cannot afford to purchase them. CTKF cannot fulfill every child’s clothing needs without your continued help! Season after season, we rely on your support to serve the children in our community. Please consider donating to make a child’s summer a little brighter this year.

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Winter 2024 Newsletter | Fall for CTKF this Valentines Day

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With Valentine’s Day on February 14th and Random Acts of Kindness Day on February 17th, this is the perfect time to show some love for your Community! With the help of our volunteers and donations from our supporters, Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County (CTKF) is able to operate a boutique clothing store for children financially eligible and/or in crisis, to shop, twice a year, free of charge. If it weren’t for your generosity, CTKF would not be able to touch the lives of so many children and families in need. CTKF is a volunteer-run organization, so every dollar you donate goes to benefit the children we serve.

Please spread kindness and your support this month, and share this message with friends, co-workers and family. The greater our reach, the greater our impact. Every bit of kindness counts. There is no gift sweeter than changing a child’s life!

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Spring 2023 Newsletter | Revamping the store for a new season

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CTKF is thrilled to welcome spring and your support is needed as we revamp the store for a new season. We anticipate this to be one of our busiest years yet, as the number of children registering to shop in our store continues to rise.

Spring Issue highlights:

  • St. Luke’s Students Celebrate the Memory of Classmate Jordan Robinson & Donate Clothing to CTKF
  • Volunteer Spotlight: 7th grade student Stella
  • Join Team CTKF and ride the TD Five Boro Bike Tour in May
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We raised over $9,300 in 24 hours

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Thanks to our wonderful supporters, Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County raised over $9,300 during the 10th Annual Fairfield County Giving Day on February 23, 2023. We are incredibly grateful to each and every person who donated and spread the word to friends and family!

Fairfield County’s Giving Day is our region’s largest annual philanthropic event! Powered by Fairfield County’s Community Foundation, Giving Day is made possible by thousands of generous people who care. Each year, families, businesses, colleagues, classmates and neighbors join together to support Fairfield County nonprofits and show the power of giving.

Your donations will allow us to purchase clothing for low-income and in-crisis children that shop in our store. We serve Fairfield County kids in grades K-12, so it is critical that we have enough clothing in-store that will meet their diverse sizing needs. Every child deserves clean, comfortable clothing that they can feel confident in wearing.

On February 23 we came together to change the lives of those who are vulnerable in our community. Thank you!

Support us when you shop this holiday with AmazonSmile!

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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.

Shop Our Amazon Wish List

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.

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Fall/Winter 2022 Newsletter

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Clothes To Kids of Fairfield County (CTKF) would like to wish our donors, volunteers and supporters a joyous and healthy holiday season. This has been quite a year for CTKF! We resumed our in-person shopping appointments at our new location after two years of offering curbside appointments, and hosted “Cabaret” our first in-person fundraising event since 2018. We are so grateful for another year of your support!

Read about it all in the Fall/Winter 2022 issue of our newsletter.