The Next Door is conducting its Community Baby Shower during April. They are taking donations of new, unwrapped, gender-neutral items to help parents nurture their newborns. Needed items include baby carriers, front packs and wraps, bibs, swaddlers, onesies, pacifiers, teethers, diapers, wipes, and white noise machines. Donations of items, or cash gifts, can be dropped off at The Next Door offices at 965 Tucker Road in Hood River and 1113 Kelly Avenue in The Dalles. Online donations can be made through a registry at amazon.com. Under “Find a Baby Registry” enter The Next Door Community Baby Shower 2026. Online monetary donations can be made at nextdoorinc.org.