14th Annual Coat Drive Results

With the help of 300 collection sites including local companies and organizations and thousands of individual donors and volunteers, Jersey Cares collected and distributed 40,000 “gently used” winter coats to over 230 nonprofit agencies who help at-risk men, women, children and infants in 16 different counties throughout the state of New Jersey.                                         

*Photo Credit: Craig Cutler; (c) New York Cares

Special Thanks... 

Coat Couriers

Jersey Cares would like to extend a special heartfelt thank you to Sheila Knazick and Louis Carambot at Storage King, John Foley, Amanda Fedon, Jamie Hoffman, Lora Lloyd, Ji Seo, Feroz Naqvi, David Judovin, Martin Birnbaum and NJ Knights of Pythius for transporting thousands of coats across the state.

Coat Drive Sponsors

Store and  Move (SAM)

PricewaterhouseCoopers

PSEG

The Star-Ledger

Prudential Center & New Jersey Devils

Wyeth

Store and Move

We'd also like to thank Store and Move for donating all of the SAM containers holding the coats. Specifically, thanks to Ken Penn, Suddath-Wayne SAM Distributor, Rob Vespa, Joe Cucurullo, Ray Daleo, Barbara Hadden and McCollister’s SAM Distributor.

Additional Thanks

 · Zak Hogan and Go Green Cleaners

 · Oradell Volunteer Fire Department

 · Credit Suisse

 · Cristin Johnson

 · Katie Keenan & the Prudential Center

   staff

 · Jay Garcia and the service club at

   the Hoboken Boys and Girls Club

 · New York Jets

 · New Jersey Nets

Collection Sites

Additionally, thanks to the 300 collection sites who collected and delivered 40,000 coats to the container sites located throughout the state!

Container Sites

The following locations kindly hosted Coat Drive Containers for coat storage throughout the Coat Drive. We couldn't have done it without you!

     · IBEW Local 164- Paramus, Bergen County

     · Garfield City Hall & Garfield Police Department- Garfield, Bergen County

     · Burlington Center Mall- Burlington, Burlington County

     · Caldwell United Methodist Church- Caldwell, Essex County

     · Hoboken Boys and Girls Club- Hoboken, Hudson County

     · The Goddard School- Old Bridge, Middlesex County

     · Camp Oakhurst- Oakhurst, Monmouth County

     · Parsippany Presbyterian- Parsippany, Morris County

     · STORIS- Mount Arlington, Morris County

     · ImClone Systems Corporation- Branchburg, Somerset County

     · St. Philomena’s Church-Livingston, Essex County

2009 Coat Drive Award Winners

Congratulations to the following schools, organizations, companies and individuals!

Golden Hanger Community Partner Awards

·  Youth: Christopher Cusack & Amsterdam Elementary School

·  Adult: Thomas Haralampoudis & Madison YMCA

Winter Warrior Corporate Awards

· Small Company: Monroe Chiropractic

· Mid-Size Company: GAF Materials Corporation

· Large Company: Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

Clever Closet Awards

       · Corporate: Mack-Cali Realty Corporation

       · Community: Caldwell United Methodist Church & IBEW Local 164 (tie)

       · Youth: Goddard School