Families in Need Can Diaper Baby for $40 with Grovia Gives

The people at Grovia care about their customers. They maintain one of the most supportive cloth diaper Facebook groups out there, where owner Kim even joins the conversation. They listen when Grovia fans express ideas, concerns, and praise. So, it’s no surprise that Grovia recognized concerns about cloth diaper need and created a program where families in need can diaper baby for $40.

Grovia Gives

Grovia Gives lends trifolds and covers to families who qualify, with a single rental fee of $40 (including shipping). This means that families in need can diaper baby for $40 from birth to potty training or until their financial strains are lifted. Grovia Gives is intended to help families with short or long term financial struggles diaper their babies. This includes children from birth to 3 years old.

GroVia believes that no baby should go without clean, safety-compliant diapers, and no family should have to choose between paying for food and utilities and diapering their baby. Cloth diapers can eliminate diaper need for families who have ready access to washing facilities.

Laura, Grovia’s Social Media Maven, talked to me a little bit about the story behind Grovia Gives. The company believes that every baby deserves to use CPSIA compliant diapers, but some families can not afford the upfront investment in a system like ONE or the Grovia Hybrid Diaper. So, these families often choose disposables or lower quality, non-compliant cloth diapers. Grovia decided to address this conundrum by producing diapers specifically for the Grovia Gives program, ensuring that quality, safe diapers are made available to families in need.

Benefits of Grovia Gives

Grovia manufactures these trifolds and covers, so they are subject to every single bit of the rigorous safety testing and audits that the rest of GroVia’s products are.
The Grovia Gives system is uniform and streamlined, so families only have to learn one diapering system.
This program is not dependent on used or new diaper donations.
The program is self-sustaining because it depends on participating families returning the diaper set when their need is no longer present.
Low rental fees.
Partially reimburses participants with product credit when they return their diapers.
Product credit can be used to buy diapers when a family who is temporarily unemployed or financially strained gets back on their feet.
Accepts Donations with the “Sponsor a Family’s Rental Fee.”
Complements, rather than competes with, existing diaper donation sites.

What are Grovia Gives Diapers?

Laura explains, “A lot of care went into developing the product itself. The covers are not ‘delicate,’ so commercial coin-op laundry won’t be a problem. The Prefolds are sized especially for the covers with the goal of fitting the most babies best. There is a great product support video on the GroVia Website, too, because we know that there will be families who are totally new to cloth diapering using the GroVia Gives system.”

How Grovia Gives Works

To participate, qualified applicants will pay a minimal lending fee of $40 (includes shipping to you) and will receive a GroVia Gives Diaper Set that will fit babies 10-35 lbs.

Each GroVia Gives Diaper Set includes:

16 GroVia Gives Bamboo/Cotton Trifolds
4 GroVia Gives One Size Covers

These sets are part of a lending program so recipients may receive sets that have been gently used and returned from a former family who is no longer in need. One diaper set per baby in family.

Note: Applicants are not purchasing these diapers; they are BORROWING them. The sustainability of this program also relies heavily on participants returning their diapers once they are no longer in need.

When families no longer need the diapers, they simply return them to Grovia for another family to use. Upon receipt of your clean, gently used diaper set, Grovia will issue a $20 online credit to you to be redeemed at www.GroVia.com.

Disclosure: I received no payment or product for this post. I simply wanted to help get the word out about this program.

Comments

Alexandra Field says

April 3, 2016 at 7:09 am

This is a great idea!

Nicole says

April 3, 2016 at 7:18 am

To whom this may concern,
I am extremely interested in this program to cloth diaper my 7 month old daughter. I would like to sing up and start using the program. May I have more information please?

Thanks,
Nicole

- The Inquisitive Mom says
  
  April 3, 2016 at 8:36 am
  
  Hi Nicole. Simply follow the links in the blog post and you’ll find everything you need.
  
Emily says

April 3, 2016 at 8:50 am

Single mom on bed rest early very tight budget. Interested in cloth diapering! My daughter will be here in June!!

Leah says

April 3, 2016 at 12:01 pm

Cheaper cloth diapers are not necessarily non-compliant. They’re produced where labor is cheaper and in larger quantities, thus making them more affordable for the average person like myself. I don’t like how you are stating that cheap diapers are non-compliant. This is misleading consumers and, quite frankly, it’s slander.

- The Inquisitive Mom says
  
  April 3, 2016 at 1:41 pm
  
  I appreciate your concern, Leah. The article does not say that all cheaper diapers are non-compliant. It says that some families choose less expensive, non-compliant diapers because they can not afford a trusted system such as Grovia. As I understand it, the company wants to loan out diapers that are a quality that can definitely stand behind – so they manufactured diapers specifically for this program. I did not use the term “cheap” or “cheapie,” nor did I say that all less expensive diapers are non-compliant. No slander here. Simply sharing a program from a company I respect.
  
Deborah D says

April 30, 2016 at 11:18 am

Such a great program for those that need it.

Sarah Bigley says

May 9, 2016 at 3:03 pm

I am curious. I work for an agency and would love to share this information with some families. I am curious what happens if a family does not return the diapers ever?

- The Inquisitive Mom says
  
  May 10, 2016 at 7:39 am
  
  Hi Sarah. I am pretty sure that the main thing is that the recipients do not get the Grovia credit, which equals a return of some of their investment. I believe that Grovia views this as a kind of honor system, where people understand that the program can only continue if they return the diapers. Plus, the diapers are clearly labeled, so there is no resale value.