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!