The average family spends approximately $75 per month on diapers, and up to $30 per month on baby wipes. These essentials for new families can often create a financial strain, requiring parents to choose between newborn essentials, groceries, gas, and more.
At United Way of South Central Tennessee, we believe everyone, including our youngest neighbors, deserves the essentials they need to thrive.
Baby Basics, presented by Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford, is a community collection-drive for newborn essentials - diapers and baby wipes - across our seven-county service area: Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Lincoln, Moore, Rutherford, and Warren counties. Once items have been collected, volunteers will help sort and distribute items to local hospitals, health departments, non-profit agencies, and those in need.
Learn more about the ways that you or your company can be involved below!
The Collection Drives will be on Thursday, February 19th at the following locations from 8:00am - 12:30pm:
521 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Murfreesboro, TN (Patterson Park Community Center)
101 W. Lincoln St. Tullahoma, TN
Collected Items can be dropped off at one of the following Collection Sites:
Female Foundation/Milestone Family Chiropractic
611 N Maple St, Murfreesboro, TN 37130
First Bank
615 Memorial Blvd, Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Regions
301 S Lowry St, Smyrna, TN 37167
Murfreesboro Water Resources Department
316 Robert Rose Drive Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Tullahoma Utilities
901 South Jackson Street, Tullahoma TN 37388
Coffee Bank
2070 Hillsboro Blvd, Manchester, TN 37355
511 N Jackson St, Tullahoma, TN 37388
Ascend
231 Waldron Rd. La Vergne, TN 37086
3080 Nashville Highway McMinnville, TN 37110
3403 S Church St. Ste A Murfreesboro, TN 37127
Dot Foods
600 Manchester Industrial Park Manchester, TN 37355
Wee Care Day Care
510 S Hancock Street Murfreesboro, TN 37130
Wilson Bank
3110 Memorial Blvd., Murfreesboro, TN 37129
710 NW Broad St., Murfreesboro, TN 37130
4195 Franklin Rd., Murfreesboro, TN 37128
210 Commerce Drive, Smyrna, TN 37167
2640 S. Church St., Murfreesboro, TN 37127
YMCA Smyrna
2001 Motlow College Blvd, Smyrna, TN 37167
Coffee County Health Department
615 Wilson Ave, Tullahoma, TN 37388
First Community Bank of TN
207 Elm St., Shelbyville, TN 37160
Smart Bank
1605 Medical Center Parkway Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Volunteer Bank
2019 Memorial Blvd Murfreesboro, TN 37129
2240 Medical Center Parkway, Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Dark Arts Tattoo
824 Ste A, McArthur St, Manchester, TN 37355
Jennifer Witham
140 Dover Street Shelbyville, TN 37160
Is your organization interested in collecting items, or being a location that the public can drop off their collected supplies? Sign up to be a collection site below.
Click here to make a monetary donation to the collection drive. Money raised will be used to purchase extra essential items.
Just add to cart and have your items sent directly to our United Way office!
Volunteer opportunities are available for groups and individuals in both Murfreesboro and Tullahoma. You can learn more and sign up below: