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Explore Mothers’ Milk Bank California’s remarkable achievements, including serving critically ill infants across California and the nation, innovative research projects, and leading education and outreach initiatives. Be the first to know about our community events, organizational announcements, project updates, and more!

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Happy Holidays Message from the Mothers’ Milk Bank

December 24, 2021

Thank you to our donors, friends and community partners for helping San Jose Mothers Milk Bank advance our mission of enhancing access to donor human milk. Your support has afforded the milk bank the ability to provide donor milk to more babies in 2021. San Jose Mothers’ Milk Bank wishes you peace, love, and joy this holiday season and throughout...

Mothers’ Milk Bank Bereavement Wall

October 4, 2021

In August, we unveiled our Bereavement Wall to honor our donors who have selflessly donated their milk despite their own loss. The cherry blossom, also known as Sakura in Japan, represents the beauty of life, and that life is fragile and can sometimes be transient. Sakura also signifies the renewal of life. We would like to especially thank the Coloma...

2024

Mother’s Milk Bank California in Yolo County holds breastmilk drive (Yahoo News)
16 million ounces of breast milk and counting: Mothers’ Milk Bank California celebrates 50th anniversary (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
16 million ounces of breast milk and counting: Mothers’ Milk Bank California celebrates 50th anniversary (Mercury News)
The breast milk angels: Meet the moms helping to save other people’s babies (San Francisco Standard)
San Jose woman reflects on career leading nation’s first nonprofit milk bank (CBS News)
South Bay breast milk bank in need of donors (CBS News)
San Jose-based milk bank announces critical need for donor breast milk (ABC News)

2023

MOMS Orange County opens the county’s first breast milk collection site (Los Angeles Times)
Madera County group collects breast milk for infants in need (ABC30)
Yes, You Can Donate Your Extra Breast Milk And You Should. Here’s Why. (Huff Post)2022
San Jose milk bank reaching out to breast-feeding moms during formula shortage (KTVU)
Amid formula shortage, California mothers find unlikely source of relief: breast milk donors (Mercury News)
How To Donate Breast Milk Amid Baby Formula Shortage (Newsweek)

2019

Breastfeeding Advocates Hope To Expand Milk Donations (Civil Beat)

2017

Can you buy breast milk? More and more women are selling and donating excess breast milk (USA Today)

2015

Give Breast Milk (New York Times)

Welcome to our Media Resources, your source for high-quality multimedia content highlighting the lifesaving work of Mothers’ Milk Bank California. These resources are available for media use to support accurate and impactful storytelling about our mission to help NICU babies thrive through donor milk.