I’d rather a world where no children were without decent pajamas and schools were adequately funded and teachers didn’t have to dip into their own purses for tissues, pencils, and paper, but since that’s not the world we’ve got, I’m not going to turn my nose up at corporate contributions (as long as there aren’t untoward strings attached)!

In America, over 500,000 children live in homeless shelters, group homes or foster care programs. These children are often taken from their homes with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They live in shelters and temporary housing with nothing to call their own. The Pajama Program is a national organization whose mission is to distribute new pajamas and new books to children in need across the country. By partnering with the Pajama Program, Carter’s is able to provide cozy warm pajamas to our country’s most vulnerable children. In addition to donating pajamas for 100,000 children, we’ve engaged our customers through an online and in-store drive, and through those efforts, raised $100,000 for the organization in 2011.