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3 Ways To Donate

Select an option below:

 

  • Pack your own bag at home. This is how the drive started. All you have to do is take a purse from your closet that you don’t wear anymore, fill it with new toiletries and sanitary products and drop it off at wearNIKI studios in Oakland.

    Here’s a no-fail list of what you can pack in your Blessing Bag:

    -tampons
    -deodorant
    -small pack of wipes
    -new pair of socks
    -new pair underwear
    -small blanket
    -words of encouragement

    When your bag is packed, please send a text to 510.896.5233 and we’ll gladly schedule a drop-off appointment that is convenient for you.

  • We wanted to make donating as easy as possible. Now you can shop this easy Amazon List.

    Step 1: Add as many of the products to your cart as you like

    Step 2: select your payment method

    Step 3:select the “Serenity House” address at Checkout and indicate “Blessing Bag Drive” on your Note To Sender.

    Step 4: and done!

    Click HERE to shop the Amazon list.

  • Prefer to donate cash? Serenity House gladly accepts your tax deductible, cash donations. Click the link HERE to donate.

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Serenity House
2363A San Pablo Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612

 
 
 

Serenity House

wearNIKI is proud to announce our partner for the 7th Annual Blessing Bag Drive, Serenity House, of Oakland. Much like our own values, Serenity House seeks to serve and empower women. Visit Serenity House online at:
https://www.serenityhouseoakland.org/

This year’s community partnership with Serenity House includes a Community Day event where women can donate their time being of service to folks in need by helping to distribute Blessing Bags and food in the West Oakland community.

Community Day Event TIME and DATE TBA.

SIGN-UP HERE to volunteer your time in January 2023 for the COMMUNITY day event.

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About The
Blessing Bag Drive

The Blessing Bag Drive is a modest effort in wearNIKI’s vision to be of service to women. The idea came about casually in 2016 when wearNIKI founder, Niki Dalton came across a meme sharing the concept of a Blessing Bag. Always the ambitious creative, Dalton thought to herself, “I wonder how many women I could get to join me in an effort to collect 50 bags?” That year wearNIKI found out just how many women it would take , as the drive collected 50 bags and partnered with East Oakland Community Project to distribute bags to women in need in December of 2016. Each year Niki revisions that number and develops new ways to get the word out to bless women each year with the efforts of the annual Blessing Bag Drive. We are very pleased to announce that our partner organization for the this year is Serenity House of Oakland (see the Community Day section for more info).

About our community partner.

Serenity House (founded in 2009)  includes substance-abuse treatment, recovery housing, and wrap-around support services for women.  
Our highly individualized services include one-on-one counseling, healing groups, case-management,  benefits advocacy, workforce development, and family reunification support.

Our groups include:

Relapse Prevention

Anger Management

Freedom from Domestic Violence

Parenting

Character Building

Battlefield of the Mind

Women may choose to live in our recovery residence or may receive our full scope of services in our Day Program.
Over 74% of women who have completed 9 months at Serenity House have been successful in remaining clean and sober, and have transformed their lives.  
Clients may have the opportunity to apply for an internship at Serenity House upon successful completion of their individualized program.  60% of our staff are former Serenity House clients who now work with the organization!

In addition to services provided directly to Serenity House clients (program members), Serenity House is deeply involved in the surrounding houseless community where it’s office is housed in the West Grand x San Pablo area of West Oakland.

 

THE BLESSING BAG DRIVE IN PREVIOUS YEARS…

with tremendous gratitude and love to all of our friends who helped to make the 4th Annual Blessing Bag Drive a success!!