While here and there a child had a donated coat or sweater, they were the exception.
COSTA MESA — Hundreds of coats and sweaters were donated to a local shelter and the Boys & Girls Club, thanks to the efforts of outgoing Councilwoman Katrina Foley, the police department and the Costa Mesa High School cheerleaders.
We donate toys and sweaters, gift cards and food.
If the child's tactile sensitivities are mild, it may not be worth the time instead, the painfully itchy sweaters can be donated, and the child can help pick out softer clothes during the next shopping trip.
"Kmart has a pretty good line that definitely fits under the category of ugly Christmas sweater," said Mr. Skalocky, who once donated one of his mother's ugly Christmas sweaters to a thrift shop, only to buy the same one back two years later from the same store.
Their numbers were low, but morale was high since a few Chicagoans around the city donated necessary supplies such as blankets, sweaters, pizza, and coffee to encourage this fringe movement.
When she was 12 years old, she donated one of her favorite blue sweater to Goodwill.
(The Clark campaign auctioned the sweater on eBay and donated $5,404 in proceeds to a program for homeless veterans in Manchester, N.H).
Lewin compared the experience to the title anecdote from The Blue Sweater, a book by nonprofit leader Jacqueline Novogratz in which she describes meeting a young boy in Africa who was wearing the same sweater that she'd donated to a clothing drive years earlier.
Beneath the television are plastic boxes overflowing with folded jeans and sweaters, as well as Beanie Babies donated by Colorado schoolchildren.
