Here is a VERY brief clip of our valiant riders on Saturday’s community bike ride. Thank you everyone!! By the way, this video was uploaded to our Facebook page and then embedded here. We’ve always used YouTube, so this is a bit of a first. If it ends up loading or playing very slowly for you, let us know.
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It’s come down to the last few days of the sock drive and we’re getting ready to celebrate in style as we do a community bike ride THIS Saturday (May 8, 2010). Thank you everyone for your support thus far. We sincerely appreciate involvement from local residents, churches, businesses, City Hall in Rancho Cordova, and organizations.
If you are available for last-minute involvement, let us know right away. We could use a few people to wrap up some loose ends for Saturday’s bike ride, and we could use many people to get last-minute word out to friends, co-workers, family, church members, etc… If you are looking for links to share, you might consider our website page (sock drive page), Facebook event sign-up for bike ride, or our Facebook Fan Page.
Thank so much for your support. Together we ARE making a difference. Nobody is getting paid here. We are all volunteers. We are all advocates for local homeless students. Isn’t it awesome to respond as a community to some of the felt needs of local kids?
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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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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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What an awesome community bike ride. Thanks everyone. We’ll unpack all the wonderful things that went on today and share pictures and video in coming days where possible. If you have pictures or video, please email them to info@project680.org (or if you have quite a bit, let’s make other arrangements).
We are so proud of the community. We had probably close to 50 riders. It was phenomenal to see community buy-in for the sake of local students in need. Great work everyone!!! This Shoe Drive / Bike Ride has been a collective team effort and there are many people and organizations to thank. Be on the lookout for some online kudos throughout the next week.
Together we can make a difference. Our community did something wonderful today.
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We are pleased to announce that Starbucks at Capital Village in Rancho Cordova will be providing us with free coffee on the morning of the Project 680 Community Bike Ride. We are grateful to have their support, and we are excited to offer our bike riders free coffee (while it lasts). Thank you Starbucks.
Capital Village Starbucks
3195 Zinfandel Dr.
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
916-852-1893
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Novo Nordisk, an international company with an office in Rancho Cordova, dropped by 238 pairs of underwear within the past two weeks. Our new grand total for the Project 680 Underwear Drive is now 3,198 pairs of underwear!!!! We don’t expect any more donations, so this is most likely the final number. Thank you Novo Nordisk and Lisa for your leadership in getting together collections.
So many of us these days are feeling the sting of the current economy, but we have managed to find a way to meet a practical need for students deemed homeless by providing new underwear for them. It has been remarkable to see households and organizations reach into their pockets to advocate for these students – even when many of us are struggling financially ourselves. That’s truly the good stuff in life on so many levels. Thank you everyone for your heart to care for local homeless students. Thank you for embracing this practical cause. Thank you for taking a stand for kids in Rancho Cordova and Folsom.
May we continue to learn to become people who regularly and creatively discover practical ways to empower students to rise far above their circumstances.
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A household in the Curtis Park area of Sacramento will be hosting a garage sale on this coming Saturday and proceeds will go toward Project 680. We’ll announce more details when we get them. It was such an unexpected and nice surprise to hear of a family that is organizing something so practical to raise funds for Project 680. Way to go!!!
NOTE: For the location, please click the following link (and know that the link will expire in a matter of days). The sale will be Saturday May 30, 2009 from 9-12pm. http://sacramento.craigslist.org/gms/1191909936.html
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Thank you to Cordova Neighborhood Church for being a drop-off location and also for church members who donated generously to the Project 680 Underwear Drive. We appreciate your heart for those who are struggling in our community. Keep up the great work!!! Thank you for your compassion and focus on caring for kids in the community.
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We want to acknowledge the residents of Rancho Cordova and Folsom who have supported the endeavor to collect at least 680 pairs of underwear for local homeless students within the FCUSD. Residents in both cities have been the backbone of the Underwear Drive and we have seen success thus far due to everyday people chipping in here and there. This economy is not an easy one to say the least, but that has not stopped the flow of compassion from locals.
You may be an anonymous donor who simply went to a drop-off location and gave a few pairs or multiple packs of underwear. You probably even told your family and friends too and helped get them involved. We may never know your name, but we admire your kindness and we appreciate your giving. Thank you.
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We are incredibly grateful to have so many Rancho Cordova city employees collecting underwear for the P680 Underwear Drive. The last update we received on Friday had just over 200 pairs of underwear collected so far. We are impressed that city workers and staff members have made such a strong effort to support this cause. It’s neat to see that so many employees care deeply about the community they serve from 9-5. Way to go!!!
On behalf of the community, thank you.
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We are very happy to announce that Curves in Rancho Cordova has donated 130 pairs of new underwear so far for local homeless students for the P680 Underwear Drive. We appreciate their wonderful donation very much and also their heart to support important causes. Curves has previously donated generously to soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Curves, you earn an A+ in our book. Thank you.
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Thank you to River Valley Church in Rancho Cordova for collecting nearly 170 pairs of underwear so far. Congratulations and great work!!! We appreciate your heart for the community in this very practical and important effort.
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