Alliance for Period Supplies SWFL

Mission: Provide free, monthly period products to financially-challenged women and girls and educate the public about Period Poverty. Vision: Menstruators will participate fully in daily life and and no longer be absent from school or work due to lack of period supplies. History: While volunteering at a local food pantry, after Hurricane Irma, members of the Alliance for Period Supplies of SWFL learned of the urgent need to provide period supplies to help alleviate “period poverty” among women and girls in our community. Through a series of fortuitous events, APS board members were invited to attend the first Summit for Period Poverty in Atlanta in October of 2018, hosted by the national Alliance for Period Supplies organization. With the information and support received from the Summit, we established a local nonprofit in January, 2019 with the sole purpose of buying and distributing period products as well as educating the public about this critical and overlooked basic need.

We supply free period products to girls and women in SWFL at or below the ALICE threshold. Our program is single mindedly devoted to this. Key activities are procurement and distribution of product and spreading awareness of period products