An Exciting Update from mBOLDen Change

An Exciting Update

Dear Friends,

After nearly two decades as My New Red Shoes, we’ve rebranded as mBOLDen Change. Our new name reflects the evolution of our work — and a deepening commitment to equity, systems change, and bold partnership. While the name is new, our values, relationships, and approach remain grounded in trust, collaboration, and shared purpose.

Since 2006, our organization has helped hundreds of thousands of children and families access the essentials they need to thrive. Thanks to the support of friends like you, our work has grown from:

Enlisting partners to deliver our programs to co-creating solutions that empower partners to launch and lead the initiatives that matter most to them

Distributing in-kind goods to developing cash-based support that puts flexible dollars directly in the hands of those who need it most

Serving families once a year to strengthening the systems that support them all year long

Holding equity as a guiding value to advocating for policies and practices that shift power and expand opportunity for marginalized communities

We’re energized by this transformation. mBOLDen Change captures the clarity, conviction, and momentum guiding our next chapter.

We’re deeply grateful to have you by our side. Together, we can make equity not just a shared value, but a lived reality.

Children in foster care are the community’s children. They share the same hopes and dreams as other children and youth but face significant disadvantages and challenges compared to their peers, especially as they transition into adulthood.

My New Red Shoes believes that offering hope and financial stability to transition age foster youth is the single most important investment we can make to provide them with stability and a pathway to success. For these reasons, we support SB 739: The Universal Basic Income for Transition Age Foster Youth Act.

SB 739 would provide transition age foster youth monthly payments of $1,000 for a three-year duration. In doing so, it would set the conditions that we all want for our own children – stability to plan for the future and the opportunity to reach their highest capacity.

Our full letter of support can be found here.

Published: Wed, Apr 21, 2021

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