Make a tangible impact
Directly support people who menstruate by collecting and delivering essential period products to help ensure everyone has access when they need it most.
Run a Mini Drive
Bring your community together to support menstrual equity by running a Mini Drive. With tools and guidance from The Period Purse, you can collect period products, raise money, or do both, helping more people access the supplies they need to manage their periods with dignity.
Why Run a Mini Drive?
Foster community-building
Bring together friends, family, neighbours, or coworkers in a meaningful, hands-on activity that creates awareness and strengthens community connections.
Champion equity
Show your support for menstrual equity and help reduce stigma by leading a community effort to end period poverty locally.
How it works
Run a Mini Drive in four easy steps:
1. Game Plan
Complete our Mini Drive Game Plan form so we can learn about your plans. We’ll send you resources, tips, and printable materials to get started.
2. Collect
Spread the word and invite people to donate products from our approved list. Set up a visible, easy-to-access donation bin and share our posters to promote your drive. You can raise money to help even more!
3. Deliver
Count and pack the donations neatly into boxes or bags. Drop them off at our storage unit at Dymon Storage or one of our product drive drop-off locations.
4. Celebrate
Report your final collection numbers and celebrate your team’s success! Tag us @theperiodpurse on social media.
“I don't think I wrote to thank you for the great chat we had in early April about the Period Poverty Mini Drives [that] the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) in Ottawa is running. When we make our second delivery on Thursday, we will have provided 5,344 individual products divided between the Elizabeth Fry Society and Ottawa Centretown Community Food Centre. We still have at least a month to collect funds and products, so we are looking forward to increasing that number significantly.”
