Our Mission

Helping to provide critical supplies for babies and toddlers in need

The first North Porch center was incorporated in 1984 in Newark, New Jersey, by the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of Newark. The organization had its roots in a ministry established in 1978 by The Venerable Martha Blacklock of the Newark Episcopal Cooperative for Mission and Ministry.

North Porch Women & Infants’ Centers is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides emergency aid, in the form of baby supplies, to mothers and infants in northern New Jersey, to help them stabilize and improve the quality of their lives. North Porch has centers in Newark and Dover as well as a satellite center in Hackettstown, Morristown and Jersey City. We are governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees. Our Centers are staffed by part time Center Coordinators and a part time Program Director. Our clients are referred to us by social service agencies and religious organizations. They are able to visit up to six times a year and at each visit receive one week’s supply of diapers, wipes, formula, baby food and toiletries.

When COVID closed the buildings we are located in, we offered our clients open air drop offs with predetermined time and dates. In 2022 we reopened our centers. Referred clients just need to call the center to make an appointment. Newark, Dover and Jersey City are open two days a week and Hackettstown and Morristown are open one day a week.