During National Diaper Awareness Week, the SBi Giving Foundation donated 30,000 diapers to families on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. The event was one of many the organization has hosted since launching in April of 2024. The Smith Bagely company has supported rural communities through its corporate partners for years, but decided to launch the foundation to expand its philanthropic efforts and better support local charities and underserved groups on tribal and rural lands in the Southwest. By Connor Shreve. This story is sponsored by Three Rivers Brewery and M&R Plumbing.
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The Smith Bagley Company has been helping people on reservations for years through its companies like Cellular One, which celebrated National Diaper Week by giving out 30,000 free diapers to recognize its 30 years in tribal communities. You’re watching “The Local News Network,” brought to you by 3 Rivers Brewery and M&R Plumbing. I’m Connor Shreve. The SBi Giving Foundation is helping families on tribal reservations throughout the southwest. Recently, the group provided families on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock with free diapers.
We are giving away diapers in honor of Diaper Awareness Week. Cellular One has always prided itself on giving back to the community. The Smith Bagley Giving Foundation is super excited to bring this much needed help to our loyal customers here on the Navajo Nation.
Ladawn Hancock has been at the forefront of that effort for 20 years, helping to identify the biggest needs for tribal communities.
So one out of two families have a shortage of providing diapers for their families, so we’re excited to help out with that need, like I said, in honor of Diaper Awareness Week.
Smith Bagley has helped tribal and rural communities through its companies like Cellular One for decades, but decided to expand its philanthropic reach just this year by starting the SBI Giving Foundation. The organization looks to help in as many ways as it can.
Such as fairs, health expos, events for veterans. We’re honored and privileged to do business on the Navajo Nation and grateful for the opportunity to help our our customers wherever we can. We get a lot of positive feedback, and it’s just great to see the smiles on people’s faces and know that you helped lighten a burden even if it’s just a little bit. Every little bit helps so we’re happy to do that.
In 2024, the company celebrated 30 years in business with a new emphasis on helping underserved groups like veterans, kids, and elders. Hancock says, the events are built to remove barriers for those who need goods and services.
They just need to come and we pass ’em out. There’s no check, we don’t ask how old your baby is. We are limiting it to one sleeve of diapers per family, just to try and serve as many people as we can, but we don’t ask any questions. Just come and get your diapers.
The foundation is wrapping up its first summer in action having begun in April. It’s led back-to-school efforts, an elder health expo, and a youth fishing derby among other events. It’s planning an acting workshop featuring actors from the “Dark Winds” Television series in Window Rock in November. You can find info on this and other stories at farmingtonlocal.news. Thanks for watching this edition of “The Local News Network.” I’m Connor Shreve.
