Dominic's Closet is a non-profit organization in memory of Dominic Andersen.
Dominic was a Bellingham resident & student in the Bellingham School District who was born at 24 weeks gestation and lived a full life despite developmental delay, Autism, being non-verbal, and extreme medical fragility requiring intense treatment and a 24-hour daily regimen of therapies and medications. Dominic died 3 weeks prior to his 13th birthday after spending 11 days on at-home care from Whatcom Hospice.
Dominic's mom has been very involved in our local community, serving on the Board for The Arc of Whatcom County, prior Parent-to-Parent Coordinator at Whatcom Center for Early Learning, served on the Peace Health Medical Group Patient Advisory Committee, and former Co-Chair of the Whatcom Infants & Children's Council Advisory Board.
After Dominic's death, local families would reach out to Dominic's family to ask for various medical supplies that their families were short of having and the family would say they'd go look in "Dominic's Closet" at home. Fast-forward 6 years and Dominic's Closet is now an international non-profit that provides medical supplies, free of charge to all in need regardless of income or insurance coverage. To date, Dominic's Closet has sent medical supplies to 40 states in the U.S.A. and 19 countries & counting.
Not only do we serve our community's needs for getting medical supplies to local families, we also are preventing thousands of unused, unopened, unexpired medical supplies from going into our landfills. People donate their unused supplies to us, and we in turn ship them around the world to people in need. Dominic's Closet is 100% volunteer based with no paid staff or overhead. All money given to Dominic's Closet covers 100% proceeds going directly to shipping and delivery supplies to people in need. A gift from the heart, in memory of Dominic.
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