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Thank you to so many volunteers who made the Project 680 Hoody Drive a success. We are a grassroots effort and we appreciate how everyone stepped up to make this happen. Please have a look below at a list of superstar Project 680 team members. If you were involved, but not listed, please let us know because we’d like to add your name to the list (sorry if we accidently left you out – We are so grateful for you). Thank you again for your compassion and responding in such a practical way.

Who is Project 680? Addicted to Adventure, Aon International, Lisa & Bryan Allen, Anonymous Donors, Jeanette B., Body Investment Studio, Sara Bolchi, Monica Bollard, Rick Boyd, Brighton School, Linda Budge, Bueno-Williams Household, California Moving Company, Callen Pool Supply, Capital Public Radio: Jeffrey Calliso Show, Tom & Pam Carroll, City of Rancho Cordova Employees, Coolfield, Cordova Church of Christ, Cordova Community Council, Cordova Fitness Center, Cordova High School: Mr. Franklin’s Class, Cordova Lutheran Church, Cordova Neighborhood Church, Cosumnes River Elementary: k-kids leadership group, Betty Dietrich, Loan Ellis, Facebook friends of the Project 680 page, Family members, Financial donors, Pam Finney, First Baptist Church of Fair Oaks, First Covenant Church, Folsom Cordova Community Partnership, Zak Ford & Family, Andy Gee, Gossard Household, Fred Hammer, Carole Hanna, Lisa Hansen, Wayne Hart, Heritage Community Credit Union, Kaiser Permanente employees, Keith & Char Klassen, Marianne Knoy, Koban Chiropractic, Kimberley (not Kim), Jeanette Leonard, Cory & Farah Lundquist, Jenny Lundquist, Lutheran’s Women’s Missionary League at Cordova Lutheran Church, Lyons Orthodontics, Robert McGarvey, Haley McDonald, Mike & Robin Mitchum, News 10, Butch Penrose, Photo contest participants, PromoShop (Mary), Rancho Cordova Chamber of Commerce, Rancho Cordova Grapevine Independent, Rancho Cordova Inner Wheel Club, Rancho Cordova Neighborhood Center, Rancho Cordova Optimist Club, Rancho Cordova Post, Rancho Cordova Soroptimist Club, Red Robins Red Hat Ladies, JoAnne Reinking, Geoff Sakala, David Sander, Dan Skoglund, Soroptimist Club of Sacramento, Larry Stafford, Starbucks at Capital Village, Sunriver Neighborhood residents, United Methodist Church, Vision Service Plan Employees, Vista Program, Volunteer Center of Sacramento, Lindsey Watkins, Lisa Watkins, Ernie West, Gerry & Nancy Winkler, Vernon Wittkopp, Tyson & Dawn Wright. 

City Hall Facilities Department: Thank you also to the facilities department at City Hall in Rancho Cordova for their help with our celebration finale.

Cordova Community Council: Thank you to the Cordova Community council for your tremendous support and for being our 501c3 sponsor.

Project 680 Committee Members: Charlene Hunt, Sheryl Longsworth, Shannon Loveless, Ryan Lundquist, Melody Mayer, Bonnie Penrose, Jennifer Tartaglia

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Tonight we had a team of folks together to handle some logisitcs for the beginning of the Project 680 Shoe Drive, and we took a quick video to say THANK YOU to everyone for your amazing support, encouragement, and partnership during the Project 680 Hoody Drive.

We are very pleased to announce that the Project 680 team (all of us) collected 735 hoodies!!! Yes, that’s right!!! Our goal of 680 hoodies was blown out of the water by local residents, churches, businesses, and organizations that took part in this tremendous effort. Thank you. Thank  you. Thank you. We sincerely appreciate your intentional compassion and for carrying the vision in your heart to meet some of the basic needs of homeless students. Who is Project 680? You are.  

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The Soroptimist International Sacramento Club does a “random act of kindness” every month, and we are so grateful they chose to support Project 680 in October. In all, these all-star ladies collected 21 hoodies for homeless students. Thank you so much for your support. We sincerely appreciate your heart of love and how you look strategically each month to give to others. 

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Trish Antonetti of the Folsom Cordova Unified School District thanks donors who stepped forward during the Project 680 Hoody Drive. There is an enormous list of local residents, organizations, churches, and businesses in Rancho Cordova, Folsom and beyond who made this possible. Congratulations to everyone on collecting 687+ hoodies and for advocating for local homeless students in this practical way.

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Last night was an amazing night of celebration in our community as local residents, churches and businesses gathered at City Hall in Rancho Cordova to count hoodies for homeless students. We are extremely pleased and excited to officially announce we met our goal of 680 hoodies. Yes, we have counted 687 hoodies so far!!! Isn’t that great news?

It’s been amazing to watch the community rally together for the sake of homeless students in the Folsom Cordova School District. Thank you for your support, whether big or small. You made a difference, and we are very grateful you are a part of the Project 680 team.

Here is a brief video to give you a glimpse into last night’s festivities. We’ll post more news, thank yous, and many more details in coming days. If you have pictures, video or stories to share, please do so here or on our Facebook page.

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Welcome to anyone who found our website through the News 10 story this morning. Thank you for visiting. Have a look around and let us know if you have any questions. You can find out more about the Hoody Drive by clicking HERE and join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/project680.

Thank you also to News 10 for covering Project 680. We really appreciate you highlighting what some local residents are doing to advocate for homeless kids in the FCUSD.

NOTE: The quality didn’t turn out great from the recording. This was no fault of News 10.

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Tune in to Capital Public Radio’s “Insight” program today between 10:00-11:00am to hear an interview with Ryan Lundquist of Project 680 (and hopefully a FCUSD employee – we’re working on that). “Insight” is hosted by Capital Public Radio’s Jeffrey Callison and the program discusses local issues facing our region (text adapted from Cap Radio website). The interview will take place somewhere close to 10:45am. Tune in at one of the stations below. If you’re here from listening to the interview, thank you for visiting. Please see www.project680.org/hoody for information on the hoody drive.

Click HERE to listen to the interview.

KXJZ 90.9 Sacramento

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There is a masked Project 680 hoody bandit on the loose at First Baptist Church of Fair Oaks. We heard about this person through email and we don’t even know this person’s name (yet). This unknown advocate has told two other Bible studies groups about the hoody drive, which has stirred others to gather a trunk full of hoodies that will be dropped off by our finale celebration on Wednesday.

We don’t know who you are, but we sincerely thank you.

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A local sixth-grade girl named Lindsey has collected 47+ hoodies for the hoody drive so far. She chose to partner with Project 680 to fulfill community service hours with her school, and she has done a fantastic job networking and getting results. Way to go Lindsey!!! We’re so thankful for you and we really appreciate and admire your hard work!!!

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Doing anything on Sunday? Why not attend First Covenant Church’s “Harvest Carnival” from 5-8pm?They’ll have a ton of free rides and a festive family-friendly environment. Expect thousands of people. This event is huge!!! Why do we mention this? Because we’re elated to have been selected by First Covenant as the charity to benefit from their carnival. Thank you First Covenant!!! See www.firstcov.org for details. The text below was taken straight from their website:

FREE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
? GIANT ferris wheel ($2 fee applies to this ride)
? giant slides
? 120-foot obstacle course
? train rides
? carnival games
? surfing machine
? jump houses
? concerts
? trunk-n-treat car maze
? special area for preschoolers
? cupcake walk
? crossfit arena (12 yrs & up)
? fire department & police car display
? much, much more

Help support Project680.org and the 783 documented homeless students living in the Folsom/Rancho Cordova school district. Participate in the HOODIE DRIVE by donating a new hooded sweatshirt & receive 5 free raffle tickets. You can also donate new socks & underwear to receive 1 free raffle ticket.

Food & drinks will be available for purchase. Children are encouraged to bring a trunk-n-treat bag for prizes.

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We’d love to have you come out to celebrate a successful hoody drive with us on Wednesday, Octobver 27, 2010 from 6-7pm at Rancho Cordova City Hall. Technically we’ll be set up by 4:30pm in case you want to drop in earlier, but the big finale is between 6-7pm. You can expect to see local residents, city council members, business sponsors, all-star supporters, and a festive kid-friendly atmosphere with coffee and cupcakes. We’ll be raffling away Project 680 magnets every ten minutes also. We’ll be selecting photo winners at 6pm for our hoody drive photo contest (it’s not too late to enter the contest). Make sure to vote for the “people’s choice” photo award too because the photo judges won’t touch this category – the winner is up to you.

Rancho Cordova City Hall:
October 27, 2010, Wednesday, 6-7pm
2729 Prospect Park Drive Rancho Cordova CA 95670

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Thank you so much to the “Addicted to Adventure” Meet-up Group for their generous donation of thirty hooodies. Members gathered these hooded sweatshirts over the past few weeks and Kimberley (not “Kim”) and Randy dropped them off today. Thank you everyone for your support, and a special thank you to Kimberley who has really been a great leader to help spread the vision of Project 680!!! We really appreciate you, A2A.

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This photo was submitted today and it’s all kinds of awesome!!! Thank you Olivia for your submission for the Project 680 photo contest.  You must be doing something right if your baby is already taking care of the needs of others in difficult circumstances.

You still have until October 25, 2010 to submit your photos (up to 6). Winning shots will be displayed at Rancho Cordova City Hall at our celebration party on October 27, 2010. The celebration will go from 4:30-7:00pm. Come and enjoy some coffee, cupcakes, drop off hoodies if you have any, meet new people, rub shoulders with some council members, and see the winning photos. Drop by for a few minutes, stay the whole time to mingle, volunteer to help us pull off the event, or just come between the main finale between 6-7pm. Winners will begin being announced by 6pm and there will be six winners. The community will also select another photo during the event as a “people’s choice award”.

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