This Week's Feature: Vote for Non-Profit One Warm Coat

• Nearly 1 in 5 children live in poverty in the U.S.

Source: 2008 U.S. Census

• 1 in 3 homeless persons is a child under the age of 18

Source: National Coalition for the Homeless

• • The recession has wiped out upwards of 8 million jobs since it  began in late 2007

• Source: (2010, April). Why the Unemployment Rate
  Refuses to Budge. U.S. News & World Report.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  One Warm Coat started out in 1992 as a Thanksgiving Weekend coat drive in San Francisco. 
  Since then, more than 1 Million coats have been donated in thousands of local communities across North America. Each coat drive has the same intent -- to collect coats that will be GIVEN to those in need.

  

  Photo provided by One Warm Coat Photo Gallery  

  
  
  The Compassion Fashion Project worked with our local One Warm Coat agency, The 10/20 Project, this past winter and they are a wonderful program.  You can read about our collaborations here and here.   We filtered coats, gloves and personal care products donated by Burlington Coat Factory, Old Navy and individuals to our local women's shelter, Hope Cottage.  

  

  Photo provided by One Warm Coat Photo Gallery  

  
  
  NOW THEY NEED OUR HELP!
  One Warm Coat Selected by Tom’s of Maine to Participate in its ’50 States for Good” 
  
  
  Online Voting Project One Warm Coat to vie for $50,000 From Philanthropic Natural Products Company

  

  Mini Cooper photo provided by One Warm Coat Photo Gallery  

  
  
  One Warm Coat, which collects and delivers warm clothing to Americans in need, has been selected as one of 20 non-profit organizations competing for up to $50,000 in Tom’s of Maine third annual “50 States for Good” contest.

  

  Photo provided by One Warm Coat Photo Gallery  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LET'S HELP THEM WIN!  SHOW ONE WARM COAT WHAT WE CAN DO BY CLICKING THE "TOM'S" BUTTON ABOVE AND VOTING FOR ONE WARM COAT TO WIN!
  
  
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