Keeping Families Covered

06/13/2026

Come on out and join us!

‼️TOMORROW!!!‼️
🍻1-4 at Kishwaukee Brewing Company!!🍻

❤️Help is raise money for Keeping Families Covered!!

🎙LIVE Podcast from our friends at The Clopen Effect - A Retail Podcast
🍿Food Trucks from Bellies Food Truck and Snack Attack Gourmet Popcorn Company
📸Photo Booth from Mobile Memories 815

🖐Silent Auction Items like the WEBER GRILL!!

🎁Raffle prizes from local businesses like:
McHenry Outdoor Theater - Golden Age Cinemas
Conscious Cup Coffee Roasters
Chas. Herdrich & Son, Inc.
Dark Heart Tattoo
Rush Creek Distilling
Reeses Barkery & Pawtique - McHenry
Trail to Summit Candles
Battle House Laser Tag - Waukesha
Salon MACKK & Co.
And so many more baskets that were donated by great people in our community!

🥰It's going to be such a great day!!
Come have a beer and help an amazing organization!

06/11/2026

Thank you so much to Tanisha and the whole team at Sedgebrook at Home for their donation of incontinence supplies.

Incontinence supplies are typically more expensive to buy compared to other hygiene products. Donations like these allow us to keep the seniors we serve feeling comfortable and healthy so they can thrive in their day-to-day lives.

06/08/2026

Our Waukegan office had a lovely time hosting a volunteer packing party.
Volunteers from the Trustmark in Lake Forest and different branches across Northwestern Medicine, wrapping over 2,000 diapers that will help us stock our mobile distributions!

Looking to bring your organization for a volunteer outing, or have students in need of fulfilling volunteer hour requirements? View our volunteer opportunities here: https://keepingfamiliescovered.org/volunteer/

06/08/2026

Thank you so much to Kelly Golien, of Great Lakes Division Support Center, for submitting a request to AWG Cares that provided a grant award in the amount of $3,000 to Keeping Families Covered.

Grants like these allow us to continue providing our community with basic hygiene essentials like diapers, period products, and incontinence supplies so that every family has what they need to live with health and dignity.
Thank you for supporting our mission!

Recently, AWG Cares provided a grant award in the amount of $3,000 to Keeping Families Covered. The grant request was submitted by Kelly Golien, a Great Lakes Division Support Center employee.

Keeping Families Covered is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring families have access to basic hygiene essentials—providing diapers, period supplies, and other critical items at no cost to those who need them most. Through partnerships and mobile distribution events in communities like Kenosha, they help remove barriers so families can focus on what matters most. By meeting immediate needs and supporting dignity for every stage of life, their work helps strengthen families and build healthier communities.

Thank you, Kelly, for donating to AWG Cares and submitting this grant request!

To learn more about AWG Cares and learn how to donate to the funds, please visit: https://awginc.com/about-us/awg-cares/

06/07/2026

We are thrilled to have been invited to the Mano a Mano Family Resource Center for the Moms & Babies event in Round Lake last week!

We loved being able to share our resources with the community to ensure that every family has access to the hygiene products that allow them to thrive.

Pictured (from left to right): Tracy Brandt, Community Outreach & Operations Coordinator, and Vanesa Ortega-Gonzalez, Program Assistant

06/05/2026

Did you know? We've partnered with Community Cardunal Cares in East Dundee to bring our mobile distributions to Kane county! We are able to serve even more people in need with operations in 3 counties in northern Illinois: Lake, McHenry, and now Kane!

Thank you to the following:
Our partner, Bombas for providing the socks we include with our hygiene supplies and
to our site partners for allowing us the use of their spaces: Cardunal Community Cares, Waukegan Park District's Belvidere Recreation Center, and Avon Township in Round Lake.

06/04/2026

We received a large donation of 12,200 tab-style briefs from NorthShore Adult Diapers by Lake Bluff!

These briefs will allow us to help a vulnerable community get access to hygiene products that allow them to live with dignity at any age and stage.

06/03/2026

Thank you to Deana Liss, Executive Director of Elderwerks Educational Services and her team for their donation of over 1,800 incontinence products!

These essentials will help us serve the senior communities that rely on these supplies to thrive in their daily lives.

06/02/2026

We love our ambassadors! Ambassador sites like Smith Physical Therapy+ allow us to expand our reach and ensure we are meeting the need for hygiene supplies in our community!

Thank you so much for supporting our mission!

We are proud to be an ambassador site for Keeping Families Covered! These donations help provide essential items to neighbors in our community while offering a simple, meaningful way to give back. Accepted items are: diapers, incontinence items, and period products — opened or unopened.

For the month of June, each donation gets you entered in a drawing for a $25 gift certificate to Aroma!