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!

WOW. WOW. WOW.

WOW. That's pretty much all we can say. And thank you. This year 1,063 coats were donated to the Big Warm Up Coat Drive - with more coming in! Insane! These coats will be distributed throughout the area and make over 1,000 people happier and warmer.

These organizations will be receiving coats from the drive to donate to their patrons:

The Haven, PACEM, Jefferson Area CHIP, Region Ten, MACAA Head Start, MACAA's Hope House, Offender Aid and Restoration (OAR), area schools, area family support programs, CDSS, ACDSS, the YMCA, the Boys and Girls Club, LOVE INC, SHE, On Our Own, ASG, Belmont Baptist's Clothing Closet, Betty's Church

Here's some more thank yous for you:

Thanks to Ty Smith from SunTrust for donating 75 lbs of nice UVa athletic gear. This gear was handed out with the coats today.

Thank you to Catherine Potter from SunTrust Mortage for the coats she gathered.

Thanks to Martha Johnson from Wells-Fargo/Wachovia for her donation.

And thanks to Sarah Ashworth, President of BNI, not only donated a nice pile of coats but volunteered as well.

A special thanks to Keith McGilvery for his coverage of our drive on NBC29. Look out for the update!

One (of the many) piles of coats:

Our wonderful, coat-sorting volunteers! Last year we had 4 volunteers on sorting day. This past Saturday we had 23! Thank you to these tireless volunteers (sorting coats isn't as easy as it appears!). They are: Kari Miller, Amy Eastlack, Donna Baker, Emily Martin, Jamie Schwartz, Sarah Ashworth, Elizabeth Carpenter, Marietta Feigert, Victoria Feigert, Debbie Tuler, Kobi Feldman, Aaron Fein, Dahlia Litwick, Coby Fein, Sopher Fein, Karen Shepard, Jason Currier, Bryan Garery, Jordan McDaniel, Alissa Morein, and Ella Wheat.

Thanks again to all!

Next year's planning is already getting underway with plans to get coats distributed by mid-October - before it gets chilly! You can start planning too - large size jackets (XL to 5XL) are in highest demand (although jackets for everyone are needed), and they would be a great item to pick up at the end of season on sale. So if you see one for a good price, please snatch it up!

Thanks again. And again! And again!