🤍 How to Donate Your Dress 🤍

Thank you for your generosity!
Your gift to The Emma & Evan Foundation helps bring comfort, remembrance, and hope to grieving families and NICU families. We are deeply grateful for your support.

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✨ Step 1: Get Your Donation Release Form
Fill out the short form at the bottom of this page.
When you submit it, you’ll receive an email containing:

• Your Donation Release Form link

• Complete instructions for sending your dress (including our mailing address)

Print the form and place the bottom portion inside your package (keep the top for your tax records).

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✨ Step 1A: (Optional) Order Keepsakes
If you’d like custom keepsakes made from your own gown, place your order before mailing your dress at EveFoundation.org/shop.

Then:

• Write your keepsake order number on your Donation Release Form. Without an order number, we cannot match your dress to your keepsake order. (Order #s are 5 digits long.)

• Print the form and place the bottom portion inside your package (keep the top for your tax records).

• Keepsakes are completed within 4–6 weeks after we receive your dress.

💡 Why Keepsakes Matter:

• Provide over 90% of the funding for our mission

• Make it possible to provide angel gowns and NICU graduation sets at no cost to families

• We are the only angel gown organization to offer this option

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📦 Step 2: Prepare Your Dress for Shipping

• No tissue paper, bubble wrap, or packing peanuts — saves you money and helps the planet

• Remove any preservation boxes and use a smaller shipping box

• Safety pin the Donation Release Form inside the bodice — boxes can arrive damaged, and we are not responsible for lost forms

• Do not use straight pins (ouch!)

• Remove all straight pins before packing

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🚚 Step 3: Ship Your Dress

• Use a trusted carrier (PirateShip.com offers great rates)

• Donor covers shipping costs

• Do not select “signature required”

• Save your tracking number to confirm delivery

• If you're local to us, feel free to drop it by any time.

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💝 Optional $35 Gift
It costs us about $35 to process each dress donation (cataloging, storage, and distribution to our seamstresses). Many donors choose to include a $35 tax-deductible gift to cover this cost and help us serve more families.

This is optional, but deeply appreciated! You can:

• Enclose a check payable to The Emma & Evan Foundation

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✅ Confirmation Policy
We send confirmation emails only if:

• You have placed a keepsake order, or

• You included a monetary donation

For all other donations, please use your tracking number to confirm delivery.