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20th Annual Coat Drive

The cold whether has begun and so has the Jersey Cares Coat Drive.

All of us here at Jersey Cares are getting warmed up for the 20th Annual Jersey Cares Coat Drive. We would like to invite you to participate in working towards helping us keep our neighbors throughout the state warm. Last year, we collected and distributed 30,000 coats, and this year we hope to exceed that goal. For more information on the Jersey Cares Coat Drive, or to register as a collection site, visit the Jersey Cares website.

We are also excited to announce a new option for coat collection! We are partnering with YouGiveGoods, a website that helps non-profit organizations collect donated items. Visit https://yougivegoods.com/jerseycarescoatdrive2015 to see our page, where you can send a coat to a person in need with the click of a button! If you are a company, organization, or group, you can email Jennifer Lewellen at jenniferl@jerseycares.org to sponsor your own YouGiveGoods Drive. This means that you get your own page from which people in your group can purchase coats, and you can see exactly how many your group has donated. Each person who purchases coats on our page also receives a donation receipt for tax purposes. This is an incredibly easy way to give!

Please contact Akeera Weathers at mailto:akeera@jerseycares.org or 973-533-1993 with any questions.

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