Get Involved

Volunteers begin gearing up after Labor Day in the Fall and swing into full speed after Thanksgiving. We collect donations from boxes placed in sponsoring schools, churches, and businesses. When we get cash donations we are able to buy items most requested by families who come off the streets into the shelters: toothbrushes, gloves, even underwear if it is a special request of the shelters.




Volunteers are needed to:
• Make a donation of cash or new small gifts.
• Sponsor a child for $20.

• Decorate a donation box and check on it at a business, school or other organization.
• Contact us for flyers to distribute.
• Mail our brochure to friends and families who might be interested in making a donation.
• Donate holiday fabrics and white felt.
• Donate yarn for hats, scarves and other items.
• Sew stockings. Contact Pearl Grantham at pearl@holidaystockings.org for a pattern and materials.
• Contact a specific business for donations such as socks, deodorants, colognes, toothpaste, small toys or other small gifts.
• Sort gifts on Friday (see time and place below)
• Be a Shelter Captain on Saturday morning, and deliver stockings to the shelter (see time and place below)

We have chosen a stocking as a gift for these kids because the small items contained in a stocking are going to be those a child can actually carry in a pocket when it comes time for the inevitable move from the shelter. Shelters tell us that the kids actually hang the stockings by their beds for weeks after the holiday as a reminder that Santa, or someone did find them this year.

While we use the word Santa, we try to make our effort as non-denominational as possible. Our goal is to bring some cheer at a time of year where many religions celebrate a holiday.
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For 2012:
Friday, December 7th 1-6 p.m. for sorting toys
Saturday, December 8th 10-12 p.m. for stocking stuffing

*Registration opens on Sept 1st and fills up by the end of October. We recommend you register how many you might expect in your party then give us the names by the deadline of December 2, 2011.

Register with Bobette@holidaystockings.org *The address will be given when you register.