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Donate Your Winter Coat at Jersey Cares Coat Drive

Hawks fans - Bring
your new and gently used coats to the Monmouth University men’s basketball
game against Seton Hall University. Jersey Cares is collecting coats this Monday as part
of its annual Coat Drive, which lasts through January.

For the 18th Annual Coat Drive, Jersey Cares plans to
collect and distribute more than 60,000 “gently used” winter coats to men,
women and children in need throughout New Jersey (a 50% increase over last
year). Over the past seventeen years, Jersey Cares has collected, sorted and
distributed more than 400,000 coats to New Jersey residents through our annual
drive.

This year, The Jersey Cares Coat Drive is
proud to partner with The 2014 NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Wal-Mart
and New York Cares to create The Super Community Coat Drive, the
largest Coat Drive ever held in the tri-state area -- and likely the largest
Coat Drive in history. Companies, churches, fire departments, police stations,
schools and other organizations will set up collections across the state to
collect coats. Coats will be delivered by collection site representatives to
the nearest container site, where volunteers will sort the donated coats and
bag them for pick-up. Nonprofit organizations will then pick up their coats and
distribute them to people in need.

For more information, visit
http://www.jerseycares.org/JC_Coat_Drive






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