Our mission is to help women with newborns in intensive care feel seen, supported, and loved. Our strategy is to deliver gift bags every Mother's Day to moms with infants in intensive care at local hospitals. Our impact is unique: When women find their baby in intensive care, it's usually sudden, unexpected, and the entire focus of their days becomes the health of their infant. The Mother's Day Pr
oject helps mothers get remembered, even if just briefly, when energy is otherwise focused on their new baby. How we got started: Beginning in 2017, Rebecca Feinglos of Durham, NC, decided to stop feeling sad, bitter, and angry on Mother’s Day because she missed her own mother. She had lost mom to brain cancer when she was a child. As anyone can imagine, Mother’s Day can be very challenging for those without a mother still living. Since that day five years ago, Rebecca started the Mother's Day Project, where she has organized delivering Mother’s Day gift bags for mothers with newborns in critical care. Mother's Day gift bags have been filled with items just for the mothers (no baby stuff!) such as gift cards, candy, socks, spa face masks, nail polish, and more! Channeling her energy into thinking about mothers who are facing incredible challenges of their own is a way Rebecca can stay positive and focused during a tough time of year. Over the years, The Mother's Day Project has raised about $20,000 through hundreds of donors and supported almost 350 mothers. Given the overwhelming growth of the project, in 2021, The Mother's Day Project was incorporated in the state of North Carolina as The Mother's Day Project LTD, and earned tax exempt status from the IRS as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN #86-3591621).
