Junior School Kicks Off 4th Annual Cold Weather Gear Drive

Cold Weather Gear Drive

November 30 - January 15

Sponsored by the 7th & 8th Grades.

Today marks the beginning of the fourth annual MBA Cold Weather Gear Drive, benefiting Oasis Center, UniCycle and our new partner Blanket Nashville.  Please encourage your advisees to bring in the following NEW or GENTLY used items to the hampers placed in your classrooms this morning:

• Coats in Adult, Teen and Child Sizes

• Winter Hats in Adult, Teen and Child Sizes

• Gloves in Adult, Teen and Child Sizes

• Jeans and Joggers in Adult, Teen and Child Sizes

• Hoodies in Adult, Teen and Child Sizes

We also need the following items:

• New Blankets

• Hand and Foot Warmers

• Gift Cards to 24-Hour Fast Food Restaurants ($10, $15, $20)

• Gift Cards to Gas Stations

• Chapstick

A record of donations should be kept each week on the logs attached to your hampers.  Every Friday morning, please have someone from your advisory take your weekly log to Mrs. Haendel’s office for me to pick up.  We will be doing prize drawings on Monday mornings, while school is in session, based on the names you report on the log.

Students and their families can also give online by visiting the Service Club Store at https://cold-weather-gear-drive-101248.square.site/.  Boys should report the items they have “purchased” to you as well, and those donations should be recorded on the attached log.

Advisory Incentives: If your advisory earns 100% participation, you earn movie theater candy treat, date TBD.  100% advisory participation can be earned by members bringing items, keeping track of items donated on the advisory log-in sheet and/or by bagging donations in the bags provided and taking them to the closet in Massey Commons. In other words, an advisory can achieve 100% participation without each member bringing in an item.  We want every boy to have an opportunity to participate. 

The advisory who donates the most items wins a homemade pancake breakfast.

Individual Incentives: For every five items a boy brings, he gets his name put in a weekly drawing for one of three weekly Snack Break Fast Pass (skip to the front of the line to claim one free item worth up to $2).  For every five items a boy brings, he is also entered into a one-time drawing for a grand prize or 1 Snack Break Fast Pass per week for the remainder of the school year! 

Prizes will be awarded at the end of the drive in January.  Most importantly, we get to help homeless youth and children in Nashville.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, and thanks for your support.