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Tuesday 8:30am - 11:30am Wednesday 6:30pm - 8:30pm Thursday 4pm - 6pm

http://www.fostercarecloset.org/

Kearney Foster CARE Closet, 3610 6th Avenue, Kearney, NE (2026)

04/19/2024

Spring/Summer clothes are on their way to Grand Island and Kearney this weekend! Here's where and when you can find us:

Grand Island
Friday, April 19th • 3:00 - 7:00 pm
Third City Church
4100 W 13th Street, Grand Island, NE 68803

Kearney
Saturday, April 20th • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
First Baptist Church
3610 6th Avenue, Door W10, Kearney, NE 68845

North Platte
Friday, May 3rd • 3:00 - 7:00 pm
1st Evangelical Lutheran Church
305 W 5th Street, North Platte, NE 69101

Scottsbluff/Gering
Saturday, May 4th • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Calvary Memorial Church
265 18th Street, Gering, NE 69341

Sidney
Sunday, May 5th • 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Elks Club
1040 Jackson Street, Sidney, NE 69162

Norfolk
Saturday, May 25th • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
First Baptist Church
404 W Benjamin Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701

All youth can shop for 5 tops, 5 bottoms, a pair of pajamas, a pair of shoes, 7 pairs of socks, 7 pairs of underwear, and a season appropriate jacket. All FREE and all NEW!!
Please help us get the word out about these FREE NEW CLOTHES for youth in foster care by sharing this post on your page or tagging your foster care organization in the comments.

04/10/2024

Our first Mobile Closet stop successfully served youth in Lincoln last weekend. Now we are getting the Spring/Summer clothes ready to go out to our next Mobile Closet stops! Here's where and when you can find us:

Grand Island
Friday, April 19th • 3:00 - 7:00 pm
Third City Church
4100 W 13th Street, Grand Island, NE 68803

Kearney
Saturday, April 20th • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
First Baptist Church
3610 6th Avenue, Door W10, Kearney, NE 68845

North Platte
Friday, May 3rd • 3:00 - 7:00 pm
1st Evangelical Lutheran Church
305 W 5th Street, North Platte, NE 69101

Scottsbluff/Gering
Saturday, May 4th • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Calvary Memorial Church
265 18th Street, Gering, NE 69341

Sidney
Sunday, May 5th • 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Elks Club
1040 Jackson Street, Sidney, NE 69162

Norfolk
Saturday, May 25th • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
First Baptist Church
404 W Benjamin Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701

All youth in foster care can shop for 5 tops, 5 bottoms, a pair of pajamas, a pair of shoes, 7 pairs of socks, 7 pairs of underwear, and a season appropriate jacket. All FREE and all NEW!!

Please help us get the word out about these FREE NEW CLOTHES for youth in foster care by sharing this post on your page or tagging your foster care organization in the comments. Bring your Master Case Number to make registering for shopping easy!

03/27/2024

We are getting the Spring/Summer clothes ready to go out to our Mobile Closet stops! Here's where and when you can find us:

Lincoln
Saturday, April 6th • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Elliott Elementary School
225 S 25th Street, Door 8, Lincoln NE 68510

Grand Island
Friday, April 19th • 3:00 - 7:00 pm
Third City Church
4100 W 13th Street, Grand Island, NE 68803

Kearney
Saturday, April 20th • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
First Baptist Church
3610 6th Avenue, Door W10, Kearney, NE 68845

North Platte
Friday, May 3rd • 3:00 - 7:00 pm
1st Evangelical Lutheran Church
305 W 5th Street, North Platte, NE 69101

Scottsbluff/Gering
Saturday, May 4th • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Calvary Memorial Church
265 18th Street, Gering, NE 69341

Sidney
Sunday, May 5th • 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Elks Club
1040 Jackson Street, Sidney, NE 69162

Norfolk
Saturday, May 25th • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
First Baptist church
404 W Benjamin Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701

All youth can shop for 5 tops, 5 bottoms, a pair of pajamas, a pair of shoes, 7 pairs of socks, 7 pairs of underwear, and a season appropriate jacket. All FREE and all NEW!!

Please help us get the word out about these FREE NEW CLOTHES for youth in foster care by sharing this post on your page or tagging your foster care organization in the comments.

03/22/2024

We are making 7 stops with our Mobile Closet for the Spring/Summer season!!
April 6th - Lincoln
April 19th - Grand Island
April 20th - Kearney
May 3rd - North Platte
May 4th - Scottsbluff
May 5th - Sidney
May 25th - Norfolk

The average Mobile Closet stop costs us $10,000. The allotment of clothes each child gets from us every time they shop is $150. If you would like to make a donation to help us have the Gas to Go, please contribute at www.fostercarecloset.org

03/19/2024

We are headed to Grand Island for a Mobile Closet on April 19th! We will be at Third City Church from 3:00 - 7:00 pm to meet the needs of youth in foster care.

Our passion is to restore dignity to youth in crisis and we do this by giving NEW clothes to wards of the state of Nebraska. If you know a family with foster kids in the Grand Island area, please tell them to come pick out FREE NEW CLOTHES!

Every kid who shops with us is welcome to pick out:
• 5 Tops
• 5 Bottoms
• 1 Pair of Shoes
• 7 pairs of Underwear
• 7 pairs of Socks
• A Season Appropriate Coat
• Pajamas

All of the clothes we give out are NEW with tags and we work to have the styles kids like! If you would like to help us continue to make an impact for kids in your area, donations to give us the Gas to Go can be made at: www.fostercarecloset.org

12/27/2023

As we move into 2024 and work through how we can better serve kids all over the state, we are confident our passion to restore dignity to youth in foster care will be well represented with our 2024 Mobile Closet events.

This year we added a mobile service utilizing our renovated white school bus. These pop up shop style shopping events have dramaticly increased the number of kids we served in 2023. Our plans to expand this service and bring clothes to more kids needs your help. Your year end donation could take us to places we have never served before!

The average cost of a mobile closet event is $10,000. We ask for people to donate a minimum of $130, which covers the cost of clothing for one child per season. Can you help us buy clothes for one kid? Or what about a bus load...

https://fostercarecloset.networkforgood.com/projects/214787-23-24-year-end-giving

12/06/2023

Our ongoing clothing service provides a private shopping experience for youth in foster care to use their voice, which is often denied to them by the necessities of foster care. Each youth is able to choose 5 NEW outfits including shoes, socks, underwear, a seasonal outer layer, hygiene, and comfort items. We are committed to providing a good selection of options in each size from preemie all the way to adult, so that each child can find clothing that makes them feel comfortable and confident as they navigate the significant challenges they face.

While youth can shop at any of our physical locations, our newest program is our Mobile Closet, which brings the shopping experience to youth in foster care in western and northern Nebraska who cannot travel to one of our stores. We load up our bus with a full store's worth of inventory and "set up shop" locally for a weekend. Our Mobile Closet trips occur in spring and fall, making sure children in foster care have seasonally appropriate clothes in time for the extremes of Nebraska weather. While Kearney youth can currently shop in our physical store, in 2024 we will begin making Mobile Closet trips to the area.

The issue we seek to address is minimizing trauma and restoring dignity to youth in foster care. We are all familiar with the image of a child arriving at his or her new foster home with nothing but the clothes they are wearing. They may never have worn new clothes, clothes that fit them, or clothes that they like.

While foster parents are sometimes provided a stipend to buy clothes, we can all understand that with inflation, children's growth spurts, and fickle Nebraska weather, that stipend can only go so far. When foster youth can pick out their own clothes free of charge at our mobile closet, the stipend can be used for other normalcy opportunities for them, such as cleats for soccer, a gymnastics leotard, or the brand name shoes that everyone else is wearing at school. The shopping experience is also dignifying to them, communicating without words, you have value.

Individuals in foster care benefit from our services in both tangible and intangible ways. The opportunity to pick out their own new clothes boosts their comfort and confidence, which benefits them in all areas of life. This can especially impact other education opportunities, where not looking or feeling your best can be distracting, embarrassing, and debilitating. Our wardrobe allotment significantly lightens the mental load on foster parents, with one-stop shopping enabling them to focus more on the emotional needs of the child in their care instead of being preoccupied with scrambling to meet the physical needs.

Please help us continue our ongoing NEW clothing donations to youth in Kearney by donating to this effort now.

https://www.givewhereyoulive.net/organization/KearneyFosterCareCloset

12/04/2023

Our ongoing clothing service provides a private shopping experience for youth in foster care to use their voice, which is often denied to them by the necessities of foster care. Each youth is able to choose 5 NEW outfits including shoes, socks, underwear, a seasonal outer layer, hygiene, and comfort items. We are committed to providing a good selection of options in each size from preemie all the way to adult, so that each child can find clothing that makes them feel comfortable and confident as they navigate the significant challenges they face.

While youth can shop at any of our physical locations, our newest program is our Mobile Closet, which brings the shopping experience to youth in foster care in western and northern Nebraska who cannot travel to one of our stores. We load up our bus with a full store's worth of inventory and "set up shop" locally for a weekend. Our Mobile Closet trips occur in spring and fall, making sure children in foster care have seasonally appropriate clothes in time for the extremes of Nebraska weather. While Kearney youth can currently shop in our physical store, in 2024 we will begin making Mobile Closet trips to the area.

The issue we seek to address is minimizing trauma and restoring dignity to youth in foster care. We are all familiar with the image of a child arriving at his or her new foster home with nothing but the clothes they are wearing. They may never have worn new clothes, clothes that fit them, or clothes that they like.

While foster parents are sometimes provided a stipend to buy clothes, we can all understand that with inflation, children's growth spurts, and fickle Nebraska weather, that stipend can only go so far. When foster youth can pick out their own clothes free of charge at our mobile closet, the stipend can be used for other normalcy opportunities for them, such as cleats for soccer, a gymnastics leotard, or the brand name shoes that everyone else is wearing at school. The shopping experience is also dignifying to them, communicating without words, you have value.

Individuals in foster care benefit from our services in both tangible and intangible ways. The opportunity to pick out their own new clothes boosts their comfort and confidence, which benefits them in all areas of life. This can especially impact other education opportunities, where not looking or feeling your best can be distracting, embarrassing, and debilitating. Our wardrobe allotment significantly lightens the mental load on foster parents, with one-stop shopping enabling them to focus more on the emotional needs of the child in their care instead of being preoccupied with scrambling to meet the physical needs.

Please help us continue our ongoing NEW clothing donations to youth in Kearney by donating to this effort now.

https://www.givewhereyoulive.net/organization/KearneyFosterCareCloset

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