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Our 2025 Impact — By the Numbers

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We Are Public Health

Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast is one of the largest accredited nonprofit milk banks in the country. Driven by the belief that every baby deserves the chance to thrive, we support family and community health by providing equitable access to safe, lifesaving, pasteurized donor human milk.

Mothers' Milk Bank Northeast is one of the largest accredited nonprofit milk banks in the country.

PERSONAL STORIES

Philanthropy Redefined: The Gift of Human Milk Donation

The quiet power of human milk donation—and the community behind it. Each year, World Human Milk Donation Day (May 19) offers a moment to recognize the extraordinary generosity behind human milk donation, an act of care that often happens quietly but changes lives in lasting ways. When we talk about philanthropy, we often measure it […]

NEWS

The milk bank's origin story - Naomi Bar Yam

How One Mother’s Vision Became the Milk Bank’s Origin Story

Naomi Bar-Yam, Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast Founder and Executive Director, serving through 2020 As part of our 20th anniversary year, we’re taking time to reflect on how far we’ve come and where it all began. Before there was a milk bank serving the Northeast, there was an idea. A moment of recognition that families needed more, […]

PERSPECTIVES

Dad play's a vital role in the breastfeeding journey

Dad, Partner & Breastfeeding Champion

Here at the milk bank, we believe family is what you make it. There’s no such thing as “one size fits all” and that’s the beauty of it. While there’s nothing we love more than singing the praises of our milk donors, we know that both breastfeeding and milk donation require a village. Fortunately, many of our donors […]

Saving Lives

Premature Twins Maddie and Henry were helped by the milk bank

We’re so thankful Maddie and Henry were able to get the donor milk they needed in our darkest hours and their earliest days. We truly believe it’s what helped them grow (from 3lbs to 20lbs) and thrive so quickly .” ~ Katie, mom of Maddie & Henry

Key Supporters

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