Coats For The Cold Knoxville Tn

Last year the donation drive collected 6 000 winter coats and gave them.

Coats for the cold knoxville tn.

The coats collected during the drive will be given away on saturday december 6 from 8 a m. The mission of one warm coat is to provide free coats to people in need. Coats are sorted by gender and size for the event on saturday december 5th coat. Wate the annual coats for the cold coat drive is back with the goal of collecting thousands of coats for those in need in our area the community is invited to donate.

Coats for the cold has been a knoxville tradition for over 25 yearsover 11 000 coats were donated in 2014. Knoxville the annual coats for the cold coat drive to collect coats kicked off today and will continue november 3 25 at all karm store locations and all prestige cleaners locations. Each school is contacted for a list of needs. Coats for the cold has been a knoxville tradition for over 25 yearsover 11 000 coats were donated in 2014.

This past year the program put good warm coats on over 1800 kids. It was the most coats donated since 2014. 2019 knox area rescue ministries all rights reserved knox area rescue ministries is an exempt organization as described in section 501 c 3 of the internal. Since 1992 we have worked with our volunteers to host nearly 39 000 coat drives and have given away more than 6 6 million coats across the united states.

Coats are sorted by gender and size for the event on saturday december 5th coats for the cold strikes a powerful chord each year within the volunteer spirit of east tennessee. Until 12 noon at the karm clearance center at 4302 asheville. Coats for the cold began in 1985 after wivk fm reported a homeless man had frozen to death in the streets of knoxville. Gently used coats can be dropped off during that time at all karm store locations and all prestige cleaners locations in the knoxville area.

These coats were delivered to all schools in blount county the city of alcoa the city of maryville greenback and seymour. Volunteers are needed to sort all coats after prestige cleaners has cleaned and delivered to the event location. Volunteers are needed to sort all coats after prestige cleaners has cleaned and delivered to the event location. Thanks to the generosity of thousands of east tennesseans 9 208 coats were collected during the 2019 coats for the cold drive.