“I was overjoyed when HomeAid North Texas first approached us last year about being their lead partner for a monster-sized diaper drive they were planning,” says Barbara Johnson, CEO of Hope Supply Company. “Their nonprofit organization focuses on building and renovating homes for unhoused families, and I was totally amazed that they would also want to help address one of the essential needs such families have: access to diapers.”
Scott Sheppard, executive director of HomeAid North Texas, explains the organization’s desire to help: “We saw that diapers and related products were among the greatest needs for at-risk families and where we could have the greatest immediate impact.” And since one of the core values of HomeAid is collaboration, he felt that it was, “a very strategic fit for us as an organization to find another significant organization like Hope Supply and partner with them.”
Rooted in this deep desire to make a difference, HomeAid North Texas has collected donations to purchase diapers for organizations like Hope Supply Co. and its distribution partners. “Our obligation last year, and this year as well, was to fundraise at least enough to give a two-month supply of what Hope Supply Co. distributes to each one of its partner agencies based upon their request and need,” Scott explains. In both years they exceeded that commitment.
The 2025 “Builders for Babies” inaugural diaper drive was a whopping success, providing over 600,000 diapers to area nonprofits through the gifts of 350 donors. However, this year’s event went even further.
HomeAid North Texas already had an ambitious 2026 goal of 700,000 diapers (in 11 different children’s sizes), but on November 6 they distributed more than 1 million diapers and 2.6 million baby wipes to 130 nonprofit partners across North Texas, many in the Hope Supply Co. network of partners.
On Thursday, November 5 at 2 p.m., truckloads of diapers arrived at Globe Life Field, and volunteers began setting up the staging area. The next morning nonprofits arrived with their trucks and trailers and equipment, and distribution began. “There was a drive-through where they went from station to station to station to get the quantity of diapers per size that they requested, and then they exited,” says Scott.
“This event is such a great example of how various organizations can work together, each doing their own part, to make a critical and compassionate difference in the lives of families who face overwhelming needs,” Barbara explains. “We are grateful to HomeAid for being the catalyst for this massive undertaking.”