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Approximately 25 percent of children in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are living in poverty. There are many families struggling to make ends meet here— with children who don’t have basics such as pajamas, a pillow or a warm blanket to sleep well at night. Some children live in unheated hotel rooms converted into apartments for a multi-member family to share. Pillows and Plenty seeks to alleviate the needs of children in financially-challenged families throughout the greater Los Angeles area.
During times of uncertainty, transition, and desperation, we provide children with brand-new clothes, warm blankets and a pillow. Children are referred to our organization through school administrators and directors of community centers. We hope to restore self-pride and brighten a child’s view of the future, fostering the potential of our youth during difficult times.
Walking With Moms in Need (Chino Valley) held their first community baby shower on November 15,2025. Pillows & Plenty provided towel sets, bedding, pillows, and Target gift cards to the expectant mothers. We will be doing something similar in 2026!
At Pillows and Plenty, we believe every student deserves to feel supported, prepared, and encouraged as they begin a new school year. Recently, we had the opportunity to extend that support to foster youth, students experiencing homelessness, and two visually impaired students at local schools.
Our mission is to provide necessary items such as pillows and bedding, brand-new clothing and backpacks to the children of low-income families in the greater Los Angeles area. The inspiration for Pillows and Plenty comes from a poem, written in the 1920’s by a young girl in her teens. She wrote of despair and longing for a better life. Yet, in that poem, there is a hint of hope. We can imagine that someone intervened in her life, and changed her outlook. She became a believer in the good of people and learned that, though this world may sometimes seem like a place with “more cabbages in it than kings,” there are people who do care for children in need.
