Job Lot to Donate $30,000 in Winter Apparel to Ministry

North Kingstown-based Ocean State Job Lot will be donating $30,000 worth of winter clothes to My Brother’s Keeper, a ministry that delivers furniture and clothes to the needy.

The donation will include ladies’ gloves, maternity dresses, winter dresses, skirts, cardigans, knit-top hooded sweatshirts, warm-up suits, sleepwear and lounge pants.

The donation will occur during a ceremony Wednesday morning at Job Lot’s corporate warehouse in Quonset Business Park.

“For a variety of reasons, we know there are many people in the local community who are struggling to make ends meet. Particularly when the temperature drops here in New England, trying to stay warm becomes an added financial burden. Ocean State Job Lot has a long history of helping families and individuals in a variety of ways, and with this donation, we hope to be able to make the winter months more comfortable and bearable for those who have reached out to My Brother’s Keeper for some assistance,” said David Sarlitto, marketing executive at Ocean State Job Lot.

Founded in 1988 by husband-and-wife Jim and Terry Orcutt, My Brother’s Keeper is a Christian ministry with locations in Easton and Dartmouth, MA which delivers furniture and food to families in need. Anyone living in the ministry’s service area in Southeastern Massachusetts is eligible to receive help, regardless of religion, and the agency relies solely on private charitable donations.

Job Lot is no stranger to community service. Earlier this year, the company delivered the largest private food donation on record when it dispatched a convoy of 78 tractor trailers filled with food across southeastern New England to stock area food pantries.