The team at Operation
Warm wishes you a Happy 2010 and thanks you for
your ongoing support. Always thinking of the cold,
Operation Warm has just placed its 2010 coat order
of 150,000 new winter coats. For the
majority of the children Operation Warm serves
their new winter coat is the first
new winter coat they have ever
received.
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2009
Highlights
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Year end distribution exceeded
600,000 new
winter coats since inception in 1998.
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Executed year two of the Driving Away
the Cold campaign with the Auto Dealers
Caring for Kids Foundation resulting in
approximately 18,000 children receiving new
coats in the Delaware Valley.
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Instituted a national partnership
program with service clubs, specifically Rotary
Clubs, throughout the United States and welcomed
Rich Lalley, President of the Winnetka, IL club
to our team to lead the
program.
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Instituted a university program
that partners with sororities, fraternities and
other university service clubs to implement
"Operation Warm in a Box" on their campuses to
provide new
winter coats to elementary school children in
need in their university
communities.
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In partnership with Villanova
University developed a curriculum on the
environment and clean water that the university
students, Rotarians and others can use as a
"teachable opportunity" in conjunction with a
coat distribution.
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Distributed 10,000 new green
winter coats with the shell material made
from twelve recycled plastic
bottles.
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Doubled our Chicago distribution
to 10,000 new
winter coats in partnership with the Chicago
Housing Authority and a distribution/service
fair that accessed 45 providers to 2500
families.
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Included an inner label Made
Especially For You: Name, Address, School as
a response to so many children asking if they
could keep the coat.
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Our Philosophy
From one of our beneficiary children
spinning in circles in her new pink winter
coat and commenting, "This is the best day of my life,"
to another child hugging her coat and asking if she
could keep it for one night to take home to show her
mother, Operation Warm is humbled by our work and
grateful to our supporters who share our philosophy that
providing an essential item not only provides warmth but
also helps children reach their highest potential by
contributing to their self esteem.
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