FOX8 Community Baby Shower collects essentials for Triad families

The need is practical, immediate and expensive: formula and disposable diapers are the items Triad families are reaching for first, and FOX8’s Community Baby Shower is built to get those supplies into homes fast.

The 10th annual drive began April 20 and runs through Mother’s Day, May 10, 2026, with drop-offs accepted at any A Cleaner World location across the Piedmont Triad. Donors can also make a direct monetary gift. FOX8 is again partnering with A Cleaner World and The Salvation Army, turning a baby-shower format into a collection effort aimed at stocking households before infants arrive.

Major Ed Binnix, the Greensboro Corps Officer for The Salvation Army, is part of FOX8’s on-air explanation of how the program helps parents and babies. The emphasis is on basics that disappear quickly in a home with a newborn: diapers, wipes, and formula. Toys and clothing are welcome too, but the center of gravity remains on consumable essentials, the kind that keep a family going from one week to the next.

That focus matches what A Cleaner World says families are up against. The company has noted that when a newborn enters the picture, parents can face an ugly tradeoff between buying diapers and paying the electric bill. That reality helps explain why the annual baby shower has endured as one of the station’s recurring spring service projects and why it keeps landing with viewers as more than a feel-good campaign.

The effort has also drawn larger in-kind support. In a prior year, the Diaper Bank of North Carolina donated 5,000 diapers to the drive, showing how the event can pull in both individual gifts and major donations. FOX8’s 2025 coverage also highlighted first-time parents Amber White and Dashawn Vincent, whose family was staying at The Salvation Army of High Point Center of Hope Family Shelter and received diapers, wipes, formula and other essentials that eased stress and let them focus on work and stability.

A Cleaner World says it has partnered with FOX8 each spring to host the Community Baby Shower, and the company points to a broader giving record through its Give A Kid A Coat program, which collected more than 1,000,819 coats from 1987 through 2025. In the Triad, that larger charitable footprint gives the baby shower added weight: it is not a one-day promotional event, but part of a long-running local system that moves necessities from drop-off bin to family home.