Take a look at some of our current projects
Katie Bug’s Boutique
Opened in 2022, Katie Bug’s is located within OUR Place Shelter. This program primarily serves homeless women and children. We are currently serving children from birth to sixth grade. Their clients enter the boutique by appointment and are accompanied by their caseworker to ensure proper distribution.
Katie Bugs provides the following items for children:
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three outfits
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socks
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underwear
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shoes
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backpacks
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pajamas
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swimsuit and towels (in the summer)
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coat and hats (in the winter)
To date, the boutique has served over 500 children.
Katie Grace Boutique
Katie Grace boutique, opened in November 2023 and is located in a private room within the Domestic Violence Resource Center. The center serves women who have fled domestic violence situations and have to relocate. The women attend programs at DVRC and earn points to utilize the boutique.
The boutique offers:
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household goods
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hygiene products
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cleaning supplies
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perfume
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clothing
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Due to the severity of their victimization, the boutique does not record who utilizes it.
On average, the boutique has served over 100 women per year.
Katie's Closet
Opened in February 2024 within the Children's Cabinet Redfield Academy. Serves children who need a different approach to learning and receive 1:1 tutoring and care. With about 40 children per class, their learning is conducted on computers. These children have faced adversity in learning. Katie’s Closet provides:
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clothing
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hygiene products
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cleaning supplies
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shoes
Families can use the closet with their case manager and receive 1-2 outfits monthly. Katie Grace Foundation recently expanded allowing families of the food market to pick up the resources they need.
Approximately 40 people attend the boutique per month in conjunction with the Children's Cabinet food market.
Katie's Place
Katie's Place, opened in June 2024, and is located at the Cares Campus, over 700 men and 80 women are transitioning out of homelessness. Clients at Cares Campus stay from 4 months to 1 year at a time. They are allowed into Katie's Place with a Case Manager every 8 weeks.
When clients visit, they can receive:
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two outfits
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hygiene products
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socks
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shoes
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underwear
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jacket
Cares Campus offers services to adults ages 18 to 65+.
On average, 30 clients are served weekly
Katie Grace Room
Opened in 2024, Katie Grace Room is located at The Reno Police Department Victim Services Unit and consists of one boutique and four resource (interview) rooms.
Katie Grace Foundation provides:
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clothing
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shoes
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socks
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underwear
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hygiene products
The boutique is utilized by victims of domestic violence, robbery, homicide, and a children’s interview room.
Shoe Program
Within the original inception of the program we have been able to team up with Hot August Nights, Vans, Converse, Nike to provide new name brand shoes to the kids in our underserved community. To date Katie Grace Foundation has given over 7,000 pairs of new name brand shoes to kids in need. We also have provided 75 shoes to Kids Cottage (foster children organization) and over 200 pairs of shoes toRennerVation Foundation for their foster children program.
Katie’s Garden
Katie's Garden is a teaching garden established in partnership with Farmily to provide a meaningful educational program to the children at the Boys and Girls Club afterschool program, which was founded in 2021. The students learn how to grow, prepare, and cook nutritious food in the garden, fostering their knowledge of sustainable practices and healthy living.
Holiday Programs
Each year Katie Grace Foundation attends school Christmas events to provide the students with gifts for their parents. With the events volunteers and KTGF assists the children in picking out the gift and helping the child wrap the present. The children also get to make a card personalized from them to their parents for Christmas which teaches them the excitement of giving,
Katie’s Foster Bus
Katie's Foster Bus is a traveling closet currently in the design phase, which will serve foster children in surrounding rural areas. It aims to provide foster families with hygiene products, sports equipment, clothing, shoes, and everyday essential items. The traveling boutique will follow the food bank to rural areas to reach foster children in need.
Basket Program
Home good baskets program was created to provide household essentials for Veterans leaving homelessness to transition to stable living. The Veterans attend programing, where the city will place them in permanent housing. Katie Grace provides essential home goods to help set them up with successful living. This resource prevents further depression of no resources which may lead back to homelessness. To date Katie Grace has given over 300 home good baskets valuing a total of $300 per basket.
Cold Springs Senior Citizen outreach
The Cold Springs Community Center outreach initiative began two years ago, and since then, we have been serving over 150 senior citizens each week. We provide them with essential everyday items such as sweet treats, snacks, cleaning supplies, household goods, hygiene products, and pallets of pet food, including frozen meat for six months. This outreach ensures that these senior citizens have access to necessary supplies and support to maintain their quality of life.
Dance with Grace
Dance with Grace, initiated in 2024, features a dance closet stocked with formal gowns, mens suits, jewelry, makeup, and shoes. All students in the Washoe County School District can borrow dance attire for their upcoming dances, regardless of income. The foundation encourages all students to utilize the closet. After use, the attire is dropped off at Bobby Pages for cleaning, and then the Katie Grace Foundation retrieves the formal wear for future school events
Katie’s Buddy Bench
Katie's Buddy Bench program operates in partnership with several local schools, Trex, Amazon, Grove, and other local warehouses. This educational program promotes kindness, inclusion, and sustainability. Students collaborate to collect soft plastic while learning about the importance of recycling, inclusion, and supporting each other. Once a school collects 1,000 pounds of soft plastic, they receive a buddy bench made by Trex from the collected plastic. The students compete to earn a snack party for the entire school, and the grade that collects the most wins a prize from Katie's Magical Warehouse for each student in the winning grade.