We wanted to share some good news. The Grapevine ran a small story about the Head to Toe Drive in Friday’s paper. Thank you RC Grapevine for your support. Thank you also to FCUSD School Board Member Zak Ford and Cordova Neighborhood Church for becoming drop-off locations over this past week. This is really great news!!
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Do you have a blog or website? Are you on Facebook or Twitter? How do you think we can use social media to reach out to spread the news about the “Head to Toe” drive? We’d love to hear your ideas and see some creative things happen.
Check out Appraiser Ryan Lundquist’s blog today. He’s donating $1 to Project 680 for every comment, Facebook share and tweet his blog post receives (up to $100). It’s a creative way to spread the news for sure. Check out the post entitled, “I support homeless students from ‘Head to Toe’.” Moreover, as a result of this post being shared on Facebook, Susan Wright, a local blogger and pastor, has pledged up to $50 for people who comment and share this post. This is $150 in one day. Check out Susan’s blog here.
ACTION STEP: Go spread the love online, whether you share Ryan’s post, your own or anything on the Project 680 website. If you do something similar or launch your own campaign, we’d love to hear about it and promote it here and on our Facebook page.
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These are actual shoes homeless students were wearing to school. Watch a brief video of Charlene & Trish, who work with homeless students in the FCUSD. Project 680 partners with their office. This is exactly why we focusing on shoes (and hoodies) for our next drive (it’s called the “Head to Toe” drive). Watch below (or here). What do you think?
Details coming soon about the “Head to Toe” (Hoodie & Shoe) Drive coming soon. For now, know we’ll officially collect between October 7 and November 7. We’ll have a finale get-together at Rancho Cordova City Hall on November 7th too.
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We mentioned a few days ago that we’d have “Undies Ride” t-shirts for those interested. Well, a handful of riders ordered them and here is what they look like. You can still get one if you’d like, but it’ll have to wait until after the bike ride since our shirt contact cannot make any more on such last-minute notice. If we do a community ride again, we’ll see if we can have more advance notice for a shirt since it’s a nice touch. Whatever the case, check it out below. Cool, huh? See you Saturday at 9am at Hagan Park. For details on the Underwear Bike Ride, see this video and click HERE.
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Can we get a drum roll please? The final tally for the Project 680 Sock Drive is 2,725 pairs of socks!!! Additionally, we raised $1,838. Thank you everyone for taking a stand for local homeless students in the FCUSD. There will be more specific thank yous coming soon. This has really been a grassroots team effort. Way to go!!! Please spread the news to anyone you know that was involved. Thank you again for all your efforts!!!
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We are pleased to announce a new drop-off location for the Project 680 Sock Drive at Gold River Carpet One Floors & Home at 11367 Pyrites Way- Suite A Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 (during business hours). Thank you so much!!!!
Socks can be dropped off at this location or several others. Or you can bring them on the day of our bike ride on May 8, 2010. You can see a full list of drop-off locations HERE. If you’d like to be a drop-off location, or you have a creative way to collect socks (with friends, family, church, the office…), we’d love to hear what you’re thinking.
Let’s keep going everyone!!!!
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We’ll be collecting NEW “no show” ankle socks for teens and elementary age students. We will be gathering socks from now through May 8, 2010. Why? Because this is a relevant and practical need among homeless students in the FCUSD. Why “no show” ankle socks? Because that’s what the kids like these days.
As a community team, our goal is to collect at least 2000 pairs of socks so that we can build up a reserve to resource local homeless students with socks through the next year (or longer).
You are invited to join forces with the Project 680 team. We encourage local residents, churches, businesses and organizations to get involved – AND to get creative where possible about collecting socks. All ages are encouraged to participate too. If you are interested in donating socks, you are welcome to drop them off at any location listed HERE or bring them on the day of the community bike ride. Financial donations can also be made if you wish (click here for details).
Together we can make a difference!!! We will make a difference!!!
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Erin Attardi is a local Realtor with Lyon Real Estate and we were elated to read her post on Twitter this morning. Here is what Erin said (along with providing the picture below): “Just raided the sock aisle at Target for @Project680 Sock Drive #RanchoCordova #BikingForSocks”
Thank you Erin for your generosity, and thanks for sharing too. We are excited that homeless students will have new warm socks to put on their feet. Together we can make a difference.
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