SECOND STORK
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Mission Statement
Second Stork provides families in need with essential newborn care items to give their baby a safe and healthy start. In addition to this mission statement, Second Stork is founded on being non-political and non-religious in its mission, being highly efficient in its operations, relying on and supporting the expert judgement of nurses and social workers, and always working in ways that respect the dignity of people in need.
About This Cause
Second Stork's mission is to serve new parents in need by providing the essential care items for a newborn. The items are provided to the parent by hospital staff so that the parent has the items before they leave the hospital. Essential care items provided by Second Stork include play yards with sheets (so the newborn has a safe, clean place to sleep and discourages dangerous "co-sleeping" with newborns), newborn clothing and receiving blankets, and diapers with related accessories (wet wipes, hygiene items such as baby wash, baby detergent, diaper rash ointment, and a changing pad.) As of 2025, Second Stork partners with over 100 hospitals across all of Minnesota and western Wisconsin, northern Iowa, and eastern North Dakota and South Dakota. Annually, Second Stork helps over 3000 families in need with a newborn. Second Stork is completely non-religious and non-political in its mission and operations, remains volunteer-powered, and works in ways to always respect the dignity of people in need. Second Stork is also unique in its operations because, unlike governmental agencies and other non-profits, Second Stork requires no paperwork, applications or approvals from the hospital staff nor from the parents in need. Instead, Second Stork's model relies solely on the expert judgment of the licensed social workers and nurse managers at hospitals to determine which new parents are most in need of certain items to care for their newborn, and which parents most lack resources to adequately secure the items after they leave the hospital, either in terms of money, friends and family network, or prior social services enrollment. Second Stork volunteers deliver the items to hospitals where the social workers simply retrieve and store the items. When their inventory is low, volunteers simply bring more. No complicated applications, red tape, or record keeping for families or social workers. Second Stork maintains detailed records of items delivered to each hospital. Second Stork relies on cash donations, foundation grants and collection drives to secure most items distributed to hospitals. The bags of diapers and related items are secured via "diaper operations" within Second Stork which partly relies on corporate surplus (expired promotional kits with newborn diapers in them) and over 1000 volunteers annually. The demographic profile of families in need is highly diverse. From a Second Stork survey of networked hospitals, the profile of families helped by Second Stork includes, but is not limited, to the following: • Unplanned pregnancies- mothers are in "denial", completely unprepared for newborn (financially and psychologically) • Sudden unemployment of one or more parents (often caused by bed rest required in pregnancy) • Domestic abuse - mothers cannot safely return to previous living conditions • Immigrants - new to country and have left all belongings in war-torn homeland to seek refuge and new life in America • Teen Mothers - abandoned by family due to pregnancy; often leaving hospital with newborn to sleep on couches at friends' apartments