Note In The Pocket Inc

Note in the Pocket strives to provide clothing to children and their families in Wake County who need them. We partner with schools and social service agencies to identify the need. We receive and process donated clothing. We then hand select and deliver a week's worth of requested coordinated clothing for each individual referred to us. We call this clothing children with dignity and love.

By having dedicated temporary staffing personnel, our objective is to identify the duties of the future staffing positions needed to support the current administration. Through their help with volunteer recruitment, training, assistance with policy manuals, strategic planning, grant writing, fundraising coordination and administrative tasks, they will allow the Executive Director to focus on areas that provide financial support through community awareness, donor recruitment and retention and fundraising campaigns. Having the time necessary to focus on increasing other avenues of financial support will allow us to grow the funding needed to provide for the second full-time staff member as well as raise funds for an additional part-time administrative staff person within the year to replace the grant funds when they run out.

By providing much needed clothing to students in Wake County, we allow them to arrive at school without the stigma of clothes that reek of poverty. By providing multiple outfits that can be worn with dignity, we allow these students the opportunity to arrive at school ready to learn. We believe that it is unacceptable that children are limited in their educational and social development due to a lack of decent, well fitting, seasonal- and school-appropriate clothes.

What began with coats for a class of impoverished kindergartners has grown into a county-wide agency providing school-appropriate wardrobes to under-served students in need. Since 2013, Note in the Pocket has clothed over 28,875 children and family members.

During 2020 we clothed 5,246 individuals, including over 1,300 individuals reached through our Emergency Clothing Effort. We understand the need for clothing will continue to grow and we have set an ambitious goal to clothe 6,000 in 2021.