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Body Investment Studio is taking part in the Project 680 Hoody Drive for homeless students in the FCUSD. This drive from now through October 27, 2010 seeks to collect 680 new hooded sweatshirts (“hoodies”) for local homeless students in the Folsom Cordova Unified School District.

Body Investment Studio has opened their doors as a drop-off location and they are offering free yoga classes to donors. They are offering a free kid’s yoga class each Monday in October from 4:30-5:15pm and a free adult class on November 1, 2010 from 6-7:15pm.

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I caught up with the Liaison for Homeless Services recently and she said thank you to Aon International who donated care bags full of needed supplies. Watch a 30-second video below. Props to Aon International’s Sacramento office and way to go everyone on the current Hoody Drive!!! – Ryan

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Can we get a drumroll please? We are pleased to announce that Heritage Community Credit Union’s Mills Center branch in Rancho Cordova will participate in the Project 680 Hoody Drive as a drop off location! 

Heritage Community Credit Union
10339 Folsom Blvd., Suite A
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670

We love to see local businesses jumping on board to support homeless students in the city they serve. We welcome other businesses and organizations and churches to climb aboard. The Hoody Drive will go from September 27 to October 27, 2010.

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The Project 680 Hoody Drive begins today, September 27, 2010 and will go through October 27, 2010. It’s our goal as a community to collect 680 hoodies for local homeless students in the Folsom Cordova Unified School District. We’d love to see individuals, businesses, churches, families, and organizations get involved in this grassroots effort.

Thank you to Cordova Neighborhood Church for becoming a drop-off location. Thank you to Cordova Church of Christ for putting a blurb in their bulletin for a couple of weeks. Thank you to Body Investment Studio for offering free yoga classes to donors.

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We are pleased to share the official Project 680 Hoody Driveflyer. Click the image below to see a large .jpg or click HERE to download a PDF. You are definitely invited to share the flyer with friends via email, Facebook or however you’d like. Thank you so much for your support.

Together we can make a difference in the lives of homeless students.

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We have drop-off locations where locals can bring donated hoodies. Thank you to everyone who has stepped forward thus far to be a drop-off during the hoody drive. We are still looking for at least six more places. Maybe your household, church, business or organization would like to act as a drop-off? We’d love to hear from you. Let us know.

In alphabetical order, here they are.

Brighton School:  777 Levy Road, Folsom CA 95630
Bueno-Williams household:  4257 Emmons Circle Mather CA 95655
Cordova Neighborhood Church:  10600 Coloma Road, Rancho Cordova 95670
Koban Chiropractic:  10901 Folsom Blvd Suite C Rancho Cordova 95670
Rancho Cordova City Hall:  2729 Prospect Park Drive Rancho Cordova 95670
RC Neighborhood Center:  10665 Coloma Road, Suite 100 Rancho Cordova 95670
Zak Ford household:  4252 Mustic Way Mather CA 95655

See the updated list at www.project680.org/hoody.

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If you weren’t aware, we are doing a photo contest during the Hoody Drive. This is such an easy way us to show support for the Hoody Drive. All ages are skill levels are invited to participate. This is not some sort of a pro contest. Let’s have fun with this!!! 

The Rancho Cordova Post will be hosting images from our contest and we’re very excited. Each person can submit up to six photos. You must include “Project 680 Hoody Drive” or “project680.org” somewhere in the photo. When you take a photo (or groups of photos), email them to info@project680.org and we’ll get them online for you. There are six photo categories, which include:  neighborhood, kids, pets, creative, work and wackiest photo. The “kids” category is really designed for kids to actually take the photo too!!!

Judges will select winners from each category to have their photos displayed at Rancho Cordova City Hall on October 27, 2010 from 4:30-7:00pm at our celebration party. And of course we’ll buy you a hot chocolate too because all winners should drink hot cocoa. Visit www.ranchocordovapost.com/project680 to view all photo entries.

Here are a couple of sample images that came in last week.

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We are officially rolling out hoody drive conversation nowadays, and it’s exciting to see a buzz beginning to stir already. We really look forward to teaming up as a community to collect 680 hoody sweatshirts for local homeless students in the FCUSD. There are many ways to get involved. Please click on “Hoody” on the menu bar above to read more, and watch our promo video below. We’ll definitely be using our Facebook page to communicate during the next couple months also, so make sure to “like” the page if you haven’t already.

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Our friend Andy Gee, who works for VSP in Rancho Cordova, helped us shoot a couple “hoody drive” videos today using a green screen at his workplace. We’ll roll out the videos very soon, but for now we wanted to send a big public thank you to Andy and VSP, as well as share one shot of us giving a hard look (well, most of us are looking tough. Charlene is just too nice and cannot give a hard look even when trying). 

L to R: Andy Gee, Ryan Lundquist, Charlene Hunt

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