550 blankets collected!

Thank you!

Donations have continued to come in so that our goal for 2010 has now been exceeded!

Because of your donations,   we have been able to deliver blankets to even more organizations and people than planned.

As of  January 8, 2011,  550 blankets have been collected.

Here are delivery details to date:

• 325 blankets to IFC (Interfaith Council) for distribution to  The Community House and Homestart
• 50 blankets to homeless and needy people served by The Neighbor House of Hillsborough
• 13 blankets to The Maggie Alvis Halfway House

• 50 blankets to camps of homeless people in Orange County (delivered by paramedics)
• 25 blankets delivered to senior citizens in need (delivered by Home Instead)
• 75 blankets to the Crisis Unit of the Chapel Hill Police Department

We expect the remaining 12 blankets to be delivered by next week.

Thanks to each of you for your contributions.

And thanks to these organizations.

For providing collection boxes:

UPS Store in Meadowmont and on 15-501 in Chapel Hill

For serving as drop-off locations and providing publicity to their “communities”:

• Carrboro Design Co-op – 103 W. Weaver Street, Carrboro
• Cedar Ridge High School – 1125 New Grady Brown School Road, Hillsborough
• Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce – 104 S. Estes Drive, Chapel Hill
• Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA – 980 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Chapel Hill
• Children’s Center at Carol Woods – 7511 Sunrise Road, Chapel Hill
• H2Only Cleaners – 2 locations – in Southern Village and on Elliott Road, Chapel Hill
• Orange County Visitor’s Bureau – 501 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
• UNC Wellness Center at Meadowmont – 100 Sprunt Street, Chapel Hill
• University United Methodist Church – 150 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
• UPS Store – 2 locationsin Meadowmont Village and on 15-501, Chapel Hill

For providing news and media coverage:

• 1360 WCHL
• The Carrboro Citizen
• Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership
• The Chapel Hill News
• The Daily Tar Heel
• The Herald-Sun
• News 14 Carolina
• The Times News
• Southern Village Marketplace

For volunteering time, transportation and support:

• Rosemary Waldorf, Chapel Hill resident
• Stephanie Knutson, UNC student

For providing transportation, storage, organization, signage and all materials:

• Business Class Inc