Welcome to the 2025
Tacoma Back-to-School
Online Auction!
Benefitting the 2025 Old Navy Back-to-School Shopping Spree
The Salvation Army of Tacoma, in collaboration with Old Navy at The Tacoma Mall, has been providing new school clothing for area children in needs since 2020. Our first year, we provided $150 in new, well-fitting clohting for each of 45 school-aged children along with a backpack and limited school supplies. Old Navy has added value to our funds by giving as a 10% discount, increasing our ability to serve our kids with more pieces of new clothing.
Well-fitting, new clothes are an important part of the learning process. Often, part of being a child in needs means receiving hand-me-down clothing from older siblings and if they're lucky, "new" to them clothing from thrift shops or free clothing closets. When we provide a child with new clothing, the following changes take place not only for that child, but for their entire family:
- Comfortable children wearing properly-fitted clothing learn more easily when they aren't wearing clothes hat are not too tight or that are outdated.
- Clothing that is ill-fitting or inappropriate can make children who are already in crisis a target of bullying.
- Clothing expenses can be diverted to other basic needs such as groceries, bills, and medications, just to name a few.
- It gives struggling parents a buffer so they can cope.
- It creates volunteers and philanthropists! Often, children who have received our services wind up being avid supporters of our cause and wnat to help us carry out our mission as adults.
We hope you will enjoy bidding with us this year and that you'll do so often. Please share our link with friends, family, and coworkers who you think will want to help our kids have a better exerience at school this year.
With Gratitude,
The Salvation Army of Tacoma
