Southeast Michigan · Building Easter baskets since 2016
3500+
baskets.
Packed by hand.
Then handed to the people who already know which kids need one. Love One Another is a volunteer-run nonprofit in St. Clair Shores. Every spring we build Easter baskets for children across Southeast Michigan and deliver them to the shelters, food pantries, foster care programs and community centers who put them straight into a kid's hands.
*We do not give baskets directly to families. Every basket goes through a partner organization, because they already know their community and we do not.
Easter 2027 • Collection is open
1000 Baskets by .
Easter 2027 is our eleventh year. Last spring we packed 670 baskets for 11 organizations. Collection opens in January and runs until the week before Easter.
*We do not give baskets directly to families. Every basket goes through a partner organization, because they already know their community and we do not.
The 2026 season, final numbers.
Over a decade of this. It still comes down to one basket at a time.
670
baskets built and delivered in spring 2026
11
partner organizations received them
5
age groups, sorted from age one through the teen years
3,600+
baskets since 2016
Season totals, not projections. Updated once a year, after the last delivery run.
Every basket is sorted into one of the five age groups before it's wrapped
1 to 3
4 to 6
7 to 9
10 to 12
Teens
Our team spent 10 years refining this list.
What actually goes in a basket
More than candy. These go to kids in shelters, foster care and food pantry programs, so we fill them with things a family might otherwise have to buy.
In almost every basket, most years. We look for a dental office or a bulk donor who can cover it.
Basic and useful. Included whenever a donor can cover them in bulk.
Granola bars, Goldfish, anything that holds up in a backpack.
Soap, wipes, the everyday things a tight budget skips.
Because it is still an Easter basket, and it should feel like one.
New, and matched to the age group. A notebook, coloring book or activity book counts, with crayons or a pencil so it can be used right away. Reading and drawing should not be the first thing a stretched household gives up.
From a shopping cart to a kid, in three steps
We are the middle step. We do not run programs and we do not screen families. We build the product and pass it to the people who do.
01
You Give
Money, items off the Amazon wishlist, in-kind product from a business, or a Saturday morning of volunteering.
02
We Pack
Everything gets sorted by age group, checked against the quality control list, and wrapped by hand.
03
Partners deliver
Baskets go out to organizations across Southeast Michigan. They know exactly who needs one.
What we still need this Easter
The fastest way to help is to buy something off this list. It ships straight to the packing site.
Packing Days
Sign up through our Share Detroit page. No experience needed, and kids can help.
It started as a favor to her own neighborhood
In 2016, Amanda McCullough asked friends and family to help her put together Easter baskets for kids who would not otherwise get one. A community service project, nothing more than that.
It kept growing, and the people she asked kept saying yes. Several of them sit on the board today. At the time Amanda was working at a small law firm downtown that handled paperwork for nonprofit clients, so she learned how the filings worked and did her own. Tax-exempt status came through in 2019. Spring 2026 was the tenth year.
Nobody involved is paid. Amanda runs it as a volunteer and still packs baskets herself, and the board is right there packing with her.
"These organizations do such great work to provide resources to meet the crucial needs of these communities, so our mission is to fill in and provide additional support and enrichment for their clients through our Easter baskets program. We’re inspired by the work of our partner organizations, and our work simply wouldn’t be possible without them!"
Amanda McCullough
Founder and Executive Director
Eleven organizations put them in kids’ hands
In 2026, more than 200 baskets went to children in foster care through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services alone. The rest went to shelters, food pantries, community centers and afterschool programs.
Ensuring youth in the Foster Care System can celebrate Easter
Ensuring youth experiencing unhoused situations can celebrate Easter
Ensuring low-income youth in tutoring programs can celebrate Easter
Ensuring youth experiencing food insecurity can celebrate Easter
Ensuring youth experiencing poverty and unstable homes can celebrate Easter
Ensuring youth experiencing domestic violence can celebrate Easter
Ensuring youth in the Boys & Girls Clubs can celebrate Easter
Ensuring low-income Hispanic youth can celebrate Easter
Ensuring low-income Latin American youth can celebrate Easter
Ensuring low-income youth can celebrate Easter
Stanford House
Ensuring youth experiencing unhoused situations can celebrate Easter
Three ways in. Pick whichever one you actually have.
Give
Donations buy what goes in the baskets. Give once, give monthly, or send items to us directly.
Donate Via Paypal
Donate Via Venmo
Donate Via Amazon Wishlist
Mail a check to 27735 Jefferson Ave.
Volunteer
Sorting, filling, wrapping, loading. It happens in the weeks before Easter. Bring your kids, bring your coworkers.
Where
Share Detroit
When
Before Easter
Skills
None required
Business Sponsor
Fund a batch, donate product in kind, or host your own basket assembly event as a team-building day.
Funds
Sponsor a batch
In-kind
Bulk product donation
On site
Host an assembly event
Recognition and support
"Easter item collection underway"
Grosse Pointe News
Coverage of the annual collection drive
“Spreading Joy One Basket at a Time”
St. Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center
Profile of the founder, April 2025
Grant support has come from:
Walmart Spark Good
Macomb County Board of Commissioners
Alongside a local church and a lot of individual donors.