Nancy Woodland is the executive director of Westside Baby, a non profit organization in White Center. With an annual budget of only $143,000 they manage to distribute, by their estimate, more than 1.25 million in children's clothing, toys, books, diapers, cribs and car seats to low income families from its overcrowded facility.

An amazing 96 percent of Westside Baby's funding comes from personal gifts.

Nancy brings an interesting background to this work. She is an attorney and in the past handled child abuse cases for the state of Washington.

When she became a mother she planned on becoming a "busy" stay at home mom, but just a few years into motherhood, she was recruited by the founder of Westside Baby, Donna Pierce. The work entails coordinating with more than 100 other charitable groups who bring their requests for specific items on a daily basis.

Nancy compared her former career to her new role by pointing out, "I helped abused children get into safe situations... but in that role you're arguing with people all day long.... at Westside Baby you don't argue with people. Nobody really argues against helping kids."

The organization means a lot to low income families and to Nancy, "It means a lot more than the stuff. We focus a lot on really thinking about the kids we're serving…What it means to me is that we're doing something as a group that really makes a difference."