The Big Warm Up Wrap Up!

First off, thank you to everyone who gave coats!! The coats drive would not be possible if it weren’t for your generous donations!

1174 Coats collected and distributed. AND coats still coming in! Those coats helped these agencies.

Agencies Served:

MACAA Head Start
MACAA Hope House
PACEM
The Haven
Albemarle County Social Services
Charlottesville Social Services
Shelter for Help in Emergency
CHIP
Albemarle County Schools
Charlottesville City Schools
Family Preservation Services
Boys and Girls Club
The Salvation Army
Region Ten
People Places
CYFS
Kingswood Baptist Church
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Community Attention
Infant & Toddler Connection of The Blue Ridge
New Beginnings Church
OAR
Piedmont House
Big Brothers and Big Sisters
Restoration Ministries

Thank you to all our Volunteers:

Jamie Schartz, Jess Meehan, Bryan Garey, Grace Barnes, Lydia Prokosch, Daniel Basuel, Jamie Harris, Dana Lapato, Claire McCormick, Jane Dawson, Jason Ness, Amy Eastlack, Elizabeth Carpenter, Cristina Page, Nica Basuel, Dana Sparks, Henry Matthews, Natallie Manitiuss, Elizabeth Vranas, Mariya Balakirskaya, Carolyn Pelnik, Abigail Wydra, Daniel Basuel, Casey Archer, Jim Trousdale, Joanne Larnotte, Jane Trousdale, Tudor Cisu, Bryan Garey, Cady Garey, Virginia Garey, Evelyn Garey...and of course, our fearless leader, Marnie Allen!!

Many thank to all the places that collected coats for us-, especially Ragged Mountain Running Shop- they collected 184 coats! Also thanks to:

Brown’s Auto
International School
AHS Key Club
Pampered Pets
The Haven
Fashion Square Mall
Mincer’s
University Baptist Church
Aldersgate Church
Church of the Incarnation
State Farm
Crutchfield
Senior Center
UVA – various departments and schools
Portico Church

Thanks to the media coverage from:

NBC29
WINA
Charlottesville Radio Group
92.7
Ragged Mountain Running Shop
The Daily Progress
Cville Weekly

And a special Thanks to Virginia Land Company and Woodard Properties for their generous gift of space. They allowed us to occupy their office space on Harris St and made the drive even better with a great “storage space” and easy accessibility for service providers to pick up their orders for their clients.

Here They Come!

The coats are coming in. Here is the first of MANY piles. And thanks to Charles W. Hurt and Virginia Land Company we have a storage site! We will be storing and distributing the coats from a lovely locale on Harris Street - we can seriously not thank Charles enough.

Also thanks to Woodard Properties for doing an internal drive, as well as letting us borrow 5 coat racks for storage.

And a thank you to the International School for the internal drive.

We are so grateful for all your support and so are your neighbors! Keep them comin'!

One More Tiny Need

If you don't have any outerwear to part with, we'd love a donation of boxes of garbage and trash bags as coat sorting is coming up and we need these for delivery. Ever carried a large handful of coats - it's no fun! Garbage bags make it so much easier :)

Drop-Off Locations on Grounds

Sometimes Grounds can see like another world, but it's still a part of the Big Warm Up (and very much a part of our community)!

Drop off coats and jackets on Grounds at:
Nursing School (McLeod 2004)
Law School
Pavilion VIII on the Lawn
Clark Library
Clemons Library
and Madison House

Look for the big, wrapped boxes!

More Thanks!

Thank you to Susan Lee for heading up a collection at Blue Ridge ESOP!

Also thanks to UVA's HR Dept, Western Ridge neighborhood, Albemarle High's Key Club, Crutchfield, and State Farm - all are doing internal collections.

We've had amazing support this year. We are all seriously blown away and so, so gracious.
Thanks to everyone a million times over!

The Cutest Coat We've Gotten So Far...

Donation collection has just begun but we're already receiving super cute coats! Check out this adorable one we've gotten...

If you have any cute coats your kids have outgrown, please donate them and let other children be warm - and look adorable!

Big Warm Up 2011 Has Begun!

Last Saturday donation boxes were wrapped and distributed throughout the community.

Big thanks to Charles W McDaniel from Hilldrup Companies for donating the donation boxes, and to Mark Janson, Karen Reifenberger, Elizabeth Breeden, Shelley Cole, Karen Shepard for wrapping paper. And of course, big thanks to our many volunteers who wrapped - including our youngest, Grace Barnes

!Our volunteers were Bryan Garey, Grace, and the folks from the APO- Theta Service Fraternity:

Lydia Prokosch

Daniel Basuel

Jamie Harris

Dana Lapato

Claire McCormic

Coats can be dropped off at many locations this year. Check them out:

MACAA

The Haven

Brown’s Auto

The Senior Center

Pampered Pets

Mincer’s

Ragged Mountain Running Shop

St. Thomas Aquinas

Church of the Incarnation

Fashion Square Mall

17 sites across UVa Grounds

Help your neighbors have a warm winter! Donate a coat!

We Love Ragged Mountain Running Shop!

We're excited to announce that Ragged Mountain Running Shop will be giving customers who bring in a coat to donate to the Big Warm Up a discount on their purchase! Not only will our neighbors benefit from a warmer winter with your donation, but now you can get a little something too :) This is a great way to holiday shopping for your favorite runner!

And the Thank Yous Begin!

It's not even fall yet and coats and other donations are already rolling in!
We've already received 15 coats for this year's drive PLUS wrapping paper donations from Billie Campbell, Dawn Catlee, Karen Reifenberger. Thank you, Ladies! And thank you to a fourth mystery person who dropped paper off at MACAA.

This year we're taking donations of wrapping paper as well as coats and jackets to decorate our donation boxes, so send any you may our way!

And thanks again!