LIVE IMPACT
Families touched by The Carry Project
2025 Goal: 1,000 families
74%
742
FAMILIES HELD
318
NICU FAMILIES
47
PARTNER
HOSPITALS
1,284
BAGS DELIVERED
29
STATES REACHED
96
% 5-STAR IMPACT
HOW WE HELP
Four ways we hold space for families.
Child Loss Support
For families who have lost an infant, toddler, or child. Our memory bags hold space for grief with compassionate items chosen with intention.
NICU Families
Long NICU stays are exhausting and isolating. Our NICU comfort bags provide essentials, comfort items, and resources for parents during extended hospital stays.
Community Network
We connect families with a broader network of grief counselors, support groups, and follow-up resources. Support shouldn't end when the bag is delivered.
Ongoing Outreach
Through regular check-ins and anniversary acknowledgments, we stay connected long after that first difficult moment has passed.
WHAT WE PROVIDE
Made with intention. Given with love.
Memory & Remembrance Bag
Hand-stitched keepsakes, a memory journal, and quiet items for parents leaving the hospital without their baby.
NICU Comfort Bag
Snacks, hygiene essentials, a cozy blanket, journal, resource directory, preemie milestone cards, and a care note from volunteers.
1-Years Remembrance Bag
A gentle way to mark the anniversary of your child’s passing — a personalized memory book, a comfort candle to light in their honor, grief resources for continued healing, community connection cards, and space to add to the memories you’ve gathered this past year.
Little Sibling Bag
A gentle bag for big sisters and brothers - a book, a soft toy, and words to help them feel included in the grief.
WHO WE ARE
More than a bag
a promise to show up
When a family receives a diagnosis, loses a child, or finds themselves in a NICU for weeks on end, the world keeps moving. Bills pile up. Meals go uneaten. Sleep doesn't come.
The Carry Project inc. believes that a tangible gesture, a carefully packed bag filled with comfort and care, can communicate what words often cannot: you are not alone.
We partner with hospitals, grief counselors, and community organizations to reach families at exactly the right moment with exactly the right support.
FAMILIES WE SERVED
Their words
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When we lost our daughter, we felt completely alone. The bag arrived at the hospital the same day. I don't have words for what that meant.
— JESSICA M., OHIO · INFANT LOSS
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We spent 11 weeks in the NICU. The Carry Project bag kept me going on my hardest nights. The snacks and journal especially. I filled every page.
— MARCUS T., GEORGIA · NICU FAMILY
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Our social worker brought us a bag and sat with us. It opened a door to resources I didn't know existed. We're okay now — and that support was the start.
— PRIYA & DANIEL K., CALIFORNIA
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Your gift carries
a family forward
Every donation directly funds a bag for a family in need. Choose an amount and help us reach our goal of 1,000 families served this year.
ORGANIZATIONS
Partner with us
Hospitals, clinics, funeral homes, grief support groups, and community organizations can all become distribution partners. We supply the bags, you deliver the comfort.
Hospitals & Clinics
We work directly with L&D, NICU, and pediatric units to ensure bags are available at critical moments.
Funeral Homes
Partner with us to provide memory bags to bereaved families during one of their most vulnerable times.
Grief Organizations
Grief counselors and support groups can request bags for their clients on a recurring basis.
Community Groups
Faith communities, schools, and nonprofits can host drives or distribute bags through their network.