Back to School with My Best Friend’s Closet

Help a Calgary teen girl start the school year with confidence.

Our Back to School campaign continues until September 18.

Make a Donation

There’s Still Time to Make an Impact

Your support can help My Best Friend’s Closet continue providing teen girls in Calgary with clothing, personalized support, and a welcoming space where they can choose what makes them feel like themselves.

Every gift, at any amount, helps us reach more girls in our community.

Donate Today!

Back-to-school season should be filled with excitement, possibility, and hope. Instead, many teen girls in Calgary face financial barriers, major life transitions, or the challenge of adapting to a new school and community.

At My Best Friend's Closet, we believe every girl deserves to begin the school year feeling confident, included, and ready to succeed. Through personalized styling sessions in our boutique, each teen chooses clothing that reflects her personality, body, and style, at no cost and without judgment.

She doesn't simply receive clothing. She gains confidence, dignity, and a renewed sense of belonging.

Your support makes these moments possible.

 
 
 

Your Donation = Real Impact

 
Help a Teen Girl Start School with Confidence

Every contribution directly supports a Calgary teen girl to access:

  • A personalized styling session

  • A base wardrobe (25+ items)

  • Essentials for school, sports, and first jobs

  • A safe space to feel confident and valued

Our Back to School campaign is open until September 18.

Make your gift by August 31 to receive an up to 50% match through Rogers Charity Classic Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink. After August 31, you can still support the campaign through September 18, but donations will no longer be eligible for matching funds.

Help Her Start Strong

Questions about the impact of your support? - Please email Lori James - execdirector@makingchangesassociation.ca

We are grateful to Rogers Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink for supporting our Back to School campaign. All eligible donations received through August 31 were matched by up to 50%, helping amplify the impact of our community’s generosity for Calgary teen girls.

Thank you to everyone who donated during the matching period and helped make that additional impact possible.

 
 

All persons welcome at making changes

Making Changes acknowledges the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy which includes the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, the Tsuut’ina Nation and Stoney Nakoda Nations of Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley and the Metis people of Alberta, Regions 5 & 6. We honour the hardships that were endured by the peoples on this land to allow us to be in this space to do the work that we do in our community. We respect the culture of the peoples who walk through our doors and we strive to provide space for them. We acknowledge that Indigenous peoples continue to experience hardships and our agency will be champions for change in our daily service to community. Making Changes is committed to inclusivity and recognition of all peoples who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.