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All Coats Delivered for Winter! |
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This year, the Coats for Kids Foundation had a fantastic year and all of you are to be thanked for making this possible! Unfortunately, we have now exhausted our funds and sources for new winter coats. That's a good and a bad thing. In 2009, we met every single request for new coats in the Metro DC area. We also had more adopt a school programs than ever before.
However, we will not have more coats until next September.
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12 Days of Touring to Benefit Coats for Kids Foundation |
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GET YOUR TICKETS NOW TO THE BIRCHMERE CONCERT JANUARY 6, 2010
A rising star in the music industry who has played with James Taylor and Livingston Taylor among others is raising awareness and collecting new coats for the foundation. Seth Glier from Shelbourne, MA, a singer/songwriter begins his 12 shows tonite in Cambridge, MA.
The tour will take Seth from Massachusetts, to New York, to Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and Michigan. The complete tour schedule is below.
For the Coats for Kids Foundation, this is very special in that we have not had a singer/songwriter helping us raise awareness and help get new coats for disadvantaged kids before. Even more important, Seth will be at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA on January 6th. We encourage all to attend one of his shows. For fans who do bring a new coat to a show, he will give them a special gift as a way of saying thank you.
Once the coats are collected in each venue, they will be taken to a local school the next day and given to disadvantaged kids. Seth also plans to bring his guitar and perform at one or more schools on the tour. Along the way, he will be doing many media events, including a show on XM/Sirius.
You can get specific details about the tour from Seth's website:www.sethglier.com. His music is powerful. We are grateful to have Seth helpin gus help disadvantaged kids. Thank you Seth!
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Coats Delivered Nearing 10,000! |
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This has been a fantastic year because of the generosity of corporations,service clubs, and individuals who have latched onto our mission that every child who does not have a winter coat deserves a new one.
As of Tuesday, deliveries have crossed the 9,700 coat mark, and there are still two days before year-end.
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Target Gives Grant to Provide New Winter Coats for Cleveland Kids! |
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 Alexandria, VA (November 2, 2009) -- The Coats for Kids Foundation today announced a partnership with Target in recognition of its efforts in providing new winter coats to needy kids. This grant of $5,500 will be used to provide more than 400 new winter coats to disadvantaged kids, identified by Cleveland school social workers.
Paul Darby, President of the Coats for Kids Foundation said, "We are grateful and humbled by Target's grant to our foundation. We believe that the confidence of a leading corporation like Target In our foundation will encourage other corporations to partner with us to provide winter coats to needy kids in their communities.
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SVS Vision Partners With Coats for Kids Foundation |
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 Mount Clemens, MI – SVS Vision Optical Centers has
partnered with the Coats For Kids Foundation to provide new coats for children
this winter season. To help raise enough funds to purchase the new coats,
SVS Vision has created a cookbook filled with recipes provided by SVS Vision
employees and suppliers.
The cookbook, Cookin’ with Vision, is available
at any SVS Vision location for a donation of $10 or more. SVS will match
a portion of your donation and give all profits from the sale of the cookbook
to the Coats for Kids Foundation to help supply new coats for local kids.
The goal is to distribute coats to needy kids in Detroit and in the nine other
states in which SVS has offices.
Paul Darby, President of the Coats for Kids Foundation said,
“We are grateful and humbled by the generosity of the management team and
all of the employees and suppliers who have become a part of our vision to lift
kids who are disadvantaged up by giving them a new winter coat. We
hope that this will encourage other companies and organizations to take that
important step in reaching out to help those in need this year.”
To find an SVS Vision Optical Center, visit www.svsvision.com or call 800-SVS-4600
(800-787-4600). For more information on the Coats for Kids Foundation
visit www.coats-for-kids.org.
UPDATE: SVS staff is now distributing the 1,830 coats shipped to them to 30 schools in Detroit and sevral in their home town of Mt. Clemens, MI.
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Coats Delivered Outside DC Region Must Have Local Fundraising Support |
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For the past four years, the Coats for Kids Foundation has had significant support that has allowed us to meet the need for winter coats far beyond our immediate area. In fact, we have delivered coats to 26 states and the District of Columbia! Almost 7,000 of the 12,000 new coats have been distributed in VA, DC, MD!
Today, we very much want to continue to help groups outside of our area, but our funding sources require us to give a clear, focused priority to Alexandria, VA and the surrounding DC metropolitan area.
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The new order system is on-line and it is different from prior years. Here's how:
1. All coats in the Washington DC metro region (MD, VA, DC) are underwritten by contributions from the Combined Federal Campaign (federal employees via payroll deduction), Kids Helping Kids, Inc., Alexandria, VA, and the Susswein-Gottesman Fund, Alexandria, VA.
2. Fundraising will be necessary at the local, community level, to offset CFK's expenses to source and ship the coats outside of the DC metro region.
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Make a difference in the life of a needy child today. You can now help Coats for Kids by making a secure contribution using Paypal. You do not need to have a Paypal account to donate.
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 The Coats for Kids Foundation was established in January 2004 as a public, charitable foundation by Paul and Cheryl Darby of Alexandria, VA. It received IRS recognition as a 501(c)(3) in March 2004. The Coats for Kids Foundation mission is “to ensure that every child who needs a winter coat receives a new one.”
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