Kim Kardashian, a Snoop Dogg Performance, and More Moments From Inside the Baby2Baby Gala

Kim Kardashian and Hailey BieberStefanie Keenan/Getty Images

To paint the picture, the Baby2Baby gala, held annually in Los Angeles, could easily be called the West Coast’s Met Gala. There simply aren’t many events that draw in the sheer volume and caliber of guests—among them, Kim Kardashian, Olivia Wilde, Demi Lovato, Sofia Richie Grainge, and Zoe Saldana. It’s a fashionable evening by nature (feathered Oscar de la Renta gowns and Chanel dresses are on showcase) but rather than an event held in celebration of fashion and film (as is customary in L.A.), it’s one put together by co-CEOs Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein, with the help of sponsors Paul Mitchell, City National Bank and Volvo Car USA, to celebrate—and fund—Baby2Baby’s work in serving 1 million children across all 50 states. The single night alone is responsible for raising the majority of Baby2Baby’s annual operation funding. Of course, it’s always done so alongside ample food and cocktails, and an epic music performance.

“The two of us started Baby2Baby twelve years ago from listening,” Sawyer Patricof told Vogue. “We wanted to solve a problem in the area of child poverty, and rather than assuming or presuming or guessing what that was, we went and spoke to organizations on the ground doing the work, and we asked them.” Identifying diapers as the largest need for underserved moms, the pair have since given out 170 million in total, becoming not only the largest donor of diapers across all organizations but also the first to manufacture their own, doing so at 80% less of the cost of purchasing them.

This year, disaster relief became among Baby2Baby’s top priorities, responding, for example, to the Maui wildfires and ultimately sending 600,000 items to Hawaii, or 50 million items to children across its disaster relief program in total. “We had actually made a delivery of diapers, wipes, and other hygiene items to the Hawaii Diaper Bank the day before the fires broke out,” Weinstein says. “And we felt so fortunate about that because in the midst of the disaster when there was so much chaos and so many organizations from around the world were trying to help the families on Maui, we already had those there.”