Work With Us

Whether you are an individual, small business, radio station, grantor, or an organization looking to receive coats, there are ways you can help. Read below to learn the various ways in which you can work with Operation Warm, or email info@operationwarm.org for more information!

Broadcast Partners

For the first time ever, Operation Warm is working with community broadcast partners to help even more children.  By partnering with radio stations all over the country, Operation Warm is getting coats to the children communities who are in especially dire need. By donating airtime and their community expertise, our radio partners are helping us serve low income families in their local communities.  

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Coats for Kids (National Capital Area Challenge)
Coats for Kids Foundation, established in 2004 in Alexandria, VA by Paul and Cheryl Darby, is a long time partner of Operation Warm. Founded on similar principles, both organizations have made it their mission to provide new winter coats to children in need. After distributing more than 38,000 new winter coats since 2004, Paul and Cheryl Darby retired last year. To ensure their legacy continues, the couple reached out to Operation Warm. As a result, the Coats for Kids Foundation lives on as a service of Operation Warm, Inc. Durng the winter 2011/2012, Coats for Kids Foundation, functioning as an arm of Operation Warm, served more than 5,000 children within the Nation's Capital area.

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College and University
Operation Warm recognizes that, in order to grow and thrive, we have a responsibility to cultivate the next generation of philanthropists. To that end Operation Warm created the College and University program. College students adopt Operation Warm as a community service project and host fundraisers leading to a partnership with local community-based organizations and/or schools to distribute new coats.

Delaware Challenge
The Delaware Challenge is a focused off-shoot of the College and University Program.  The goal of the Delaware Challenge is to provide a new coat to every child in Delaware living in poverty through the efforts and advocacy of college and high school students throughout the state of Delaware.  

Market Place
As Operation Warm’s mission spreads, independent organizations who share our vision that no child should be left in the cold turn to us to purchase new coats at our competitive price, made possibly by volume discounts from our manufacturer. Another advantage of buying coats through Operation Warm’s Marketplace is our proven logistics model that enables us to supply coats “just in time,” reducing order lead times and eliminating costly storage, sorting and distributions.

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Regionalized Coat Programs
Operation Warm charity service raises money in conjunction with its foundation and corporate funding partners to provide new winter coats to organizations working directly with children, but that are unable to provide the funding for coats. These distribution partners, identified jointly with our funding partners, are organizations like Operation Warm that serve children in need. Further, while much of our funding comes from foundations and corporations, we are experiencing an increase in individual support for more regionalized campaigns. Distribution partners include schools, shelters, city agencies and a broad network of community-based organizations. With the help of various funders and partner organizations we are able to bridge the gap between our resources, grass roots engagement and distribution at the community level.

Rotary
Since our beginnings, Operation Warm has enjoyed the support and commitment of hundreds of Rotary Clubs throughout the country.  Founder Dick Sanford purchased 58 winter coats in 1998 and turned to his rotary club, (the Longwood Rotary) to help distribute the original coats and expand fundraising efforts for future years. Today, over 60 Rotary Clubs nationwide work directly with Operation Warm and implement service projects that benefit organizations serving children at the local level.

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