Beverly's Birthdays

It is our goal to make sure that all children experiencing homelessness in the Greater Pittsburgh area are celebrated on their birthday in some way that makes them know that they are special and not forgotten.

Beverly's Birthdays currently celebrates children through our five programs:

Monthly/Seasonal Model: With this model, Beverly's Birthdays hosts a birthday celebration at the agency for children who have a birthday during that month/season. The birthday celebration guests are the other children in the housing program and their families (if applicable). Every birthday recipient also receives a birthday cheer bin (present) either on their actual birthday or at the party (depending on the needs of the agency). Beverly's Birthdays celebrations are staffed by volunteers and the parties include food, dessert, games/entertainment, and treat bags, which are provided by Beverly's Birthdays.

Birthday Cheer Bins Only: Some agencies opt to just receive birthday presents to be distributed to their youth as they do not have the space to accommodate birthday parties.

Classroom Cheer: In many classrooms it is an ongoing tradition for the students to bring a treat to share with their classmates on their birthdays. Families facing financial hardship may not have the means to provide this special experience for their children to share with peers. Beverly's Birthdays will work with your school to provide pre-assembled treat bags for qualified children to distribute to their peers on their birthday.

Itty Bitty Birthday Cheer: This program provides birthday cheer bins (filled with essential newborn items) for newborn babies. We also partner with agencies to provide group baby showers. Help support this program by purchasing an item off of our baby shower registry.

Birthday-in-a-Bag: Beverly's Birthdays also helps spread birthday cheer by providing pre-assembled bags filled with all of the necessary items to host a small birthday celebration (cake mix, frosting, plates, cups, napkins, party hats, etc.) to our agency partners that they can then distribute to families in-need.

While Beverly's Birthdays is still a relatively new organization, we have been able to maintain consistent, near exponential, growth in terms of number of children and families served each year since inception. With the guidance of an extremely capable and talented Board of Directors, as well as passionate and caring staff, we are confident that we will continue to operate with extremely impactful programming whilst maintaining our history of frugal yet strong financial statements.

What we have accomplished is creating a system for bringing birthday experiences to a wide range of children and families in-need. Through our five programs we are able to reach the emergency shelter community, transitional housing community, family center community, mental rehabilitation facilities, residential treatment facilities, and even the low-income school aged children population.

What we have not yet accomplished is the ability to track long-term outcomes that the birthday experiences have on the children and families. Using previously done research, we are extremely confident that using birthdays as a back drop to teach children from an early age of their importance to themselves, their families, their schools, and their communities will have positive long term outcomes.