Weinstein: Accepting gently used physical donations is expensive and unscalable
Nora Weinstein · Inside Baby2Baby's response to California's devastating wildfires | Masters of Scale · Jul 3, 2025 · at 35:42
Nora Weinstein, co-CEO of non-profit Baby2Baby, explains why the organization shifted away from accepting secondhand goods toward corporate and bulk new items.
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“We've had to say no when our donors wanted to keep giving us gently used things, and we realized that is expensive and not scalable, and that someone should do that, but that can't be this organization where we're reaching so many people.”
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