Despite there being no Winter Wonderland, CClearwater Community Volunteers is still helping families this year, especially because there are so many families needing extra help!!!
As you probably know, Winter Wonderland is a food and toy drive, helping hundreds of families to have a better Christmas every year. In doing research, we found that there are a lot more families needing help this year, and charities that could use a helping hand.
So, CCV – always active and wanting to help – has come up with a plan to get as many gifts donated as we possibly can!! We are gathering gifts to give to The Sheriff’s Police Athletic League in Lealman, a very poor area in Pinellas County, as well as for the Pinellas County Foster Children’s Association.
There are so many ways you can help.
BUSINESSES
CCV is looking for stores and businesses that will help us by putting out an Angel Tree* or simply putting out a box asking for any gifts they would like to donate.
An Angel Tree is a tree that has ornaments on it, each ornament has a label with a specific gift that is on a child’s wish list. Your staff or customers would buy the gift and then return the gift with ornament attached to the provided box. We will arrange everything for you so it will be easy to handle.
INDIVIDUALS
As an individual who wants to help, you can donate gifts yourself or simply donate money to CCV. The donated money will ALL (100%) go to buying gifts for children in need.
If you would like to donate gifts yourself, please purchase a good quality gift for children of any age. We suggest gifts for older children as we have found that most charities get gifts for children under 8, and the older child gets left out. Once you have your gift (do not wrap them), you may bring it to either two places:
RYAN REALTY, 825 COURT ST, CLEARWATER FL 33755
ONE STOPPE SHOPPE 411 CLEVELAND ST. CLEARWATER FL 33755
Each of those places has a big box to drop off donations.
TO DONATE
To donate, please click on the following link and following instructions.
VOLUNTEERS
If you would like to volunteer yourself in helping us gather gifts, please reach out to the following email address for more information:
CCV APPRECIATES YOU VERY MUCH AND HOPES THAT YOU HAVE A VERY WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON!!!!