Warm Winters: Walnut Creek Nonprofit Awarded $10,000 Prize

WALNUT CREEK, CA — Walnut Creek nonprofit Warm Winters has been chosen to receive $10,000 in goods and services from the Mazda Drive for Good contest. The contest is a partnership of Mazda and NBCUniversal.

Mazda shared this write-up about Warm Winters:
On a February night five years ago, 11-year-old best friends Corinne Hindes and Katrine Kirsebom came upon a homeless man near their house, shivering in a T-shirt—a sight so disturbing that they knew, then and there, that they had to do something. Corinne and Katrine were passionate ski racers, and they decided to ask the ski areas they frequented if they would allow them to take their unclaimed lost & found items, including coats, hats, gloves and scarves, to donate to their local homeless shelter. The resorts said yes, and in 2011, Warm Winters was born. Today, Warm Winters has 32 ski resort partners in 12 states, with 500 youth volunteers who deliver the warm clothing to local homeless shelters, and do sock, toiletry and coat drives at their schools. To learn more, visit www.warm-winters.org.

In addition to Warm Winters, three other nonprofits received $10,000 prizes and one — Chicago's My Block, My Hood, My City — was chosen to receive $30,000.

The Mazda Drive for Good winter event is in its fourth year of fundraising and for 2016, Mazda will continue its donation of $150 per new Mazda sold or leased between November 21, 2016 and January 3, 2017, and donate one hour of charitable service for every test drive taken during that time. According to the company, since its launch in 2013, Mazda has donated more than $13 million to charity and has pledged more than 195,000 charitable service hours.
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