Our History

Amenity Aid was founded in 2013 when frequent business traveler Liz Duggan donated travel-sized toiletries to local shelters and community groups

and learned three important facts:

1. The need for essential hygiene products throughout Rhode Island is too great for social services agencies to meet.

2. There is no government assistance program that covers these products.

3. No organization in Rhode Island was solely dedicated to eliminating hygiene insecurity.

Since launching Amenity Aid in her one-car garage, we have since grown into an organization with two full-time and two part-time employees that occupies a 6,000-square-foot facility in Warwick, serves 10 social service agencies statewide, and provides essential hygiene products to nearly 115,000 individuals annually. We are a national leader on the issue of hygiene insecurity and one of the founding members of the American Hygiene Coalition, and we represent Rhode Island in the Alliance for Period Supplies.

Our Founder

In March 2014, Liz and her grandmother brought much-needed hygiene products to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Newport, marking the beginning of Amenity Aid's ongoing partnership with the center.

Liz and Erik Wallin, the Executive Director and General Counsel of Operation Stand Down Rhode Island, during Winter 2014. Since our inception in 2013, Amenity Aid has proudly collaborated with Operation Stand Down Rhode Island.