When First 5 Orange County received an over-400 car seat donation from Baby2Baby, we knew we needed safe and reliable storage that we don’t have at our office. We reached out to one of our out-of-the-box partnerships – CAP OC. Hiram Franco, the OC Diaper Bank Manager, was open to using his warehouse storage to help First 5 OC store the shipment of 18 pallets! Hiram coordinated the delivery and storage of the car seats with First 5 OC and agreed to store the car seats for 6 months cost-free.
When one of our Engaged Neighborhoods helping to distribute car seats, Santa Ana Early Learning Initiative, needed support with transporting the stored car seats from the CAP OC location to Santa Ana, they also agreed to transport and drop off 66 car seats SAELI for their Car Seat Distribution event – and included diapers too!
We want to give a shout out and a huge thank you to Hiram and the CAP OC team for your collaboration and creative partnership.