1. Mailing Address:
The Bundle
Name:
Thank Up Project
Street: You So
Much
For Your
City/ Zip Code:
Daytime Phone: Support!
-The Bundle Up Project
Signature:
Give a cild warm
clothes today...
-We would like to thank you
again for you kind support and
know that you are making a dif-
ference in a child’s life, as well as
a smile.
2. The Bundle Up Project The founding board member of
BUP is a local elementary school
Mission: To provide resources teacher named Shirley Taylor. Over
the years, Taylor has seen hundreds
in order to ensure any CHILD of children whose families cannot af-
in need of a warm winter ford warm winter coats. Often times
coat is provided with one. her students would come to class
in over-sized coats with broken zip-
Vision: To provide resources pers or coats that didn’t offer pro-
in order to ensure ANYONE tection against the elements. While
who needs a warm winter Taylor and her fellow teachers pro-
vide used coats for children when
coat is provided with one. the need arose, many students were
Serving as the conduit, the too shy or too proud to accept the
BUP provides a variety of ser-
loan of a coat. In addition, children
vices that help facilitate coat
drives, including: are taught in school that the shar-
• Resources to help individuals, ing of clothing that can also lead to
groups, companies and organizations fa- spreading germs and illnesses.
cilitate coat drives to their internal
and/or external audiences
• Educate the public on the need
that local children have for a warm win-
ter coat and how even such a small
expense is not possible for many in the
community.
A few statistics to consider:
• The recession has wiped out up-
wards of 8 million jobs since it began in
late 2007 - Source: (2010, Eventually the BUP would like to
Background Information April). Why the Unemployment Rate Re-
collect coats for displaced adults, se-
fuses to Budge. U.S. News & World Re-
The Bundle Up Project is a lo- port. nior citizens, the handicapped and
cal non-profit organization serving • 1 in 3 homeless persons is a child those living on a fixed income as a
Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa under the age of 18 - Source: National long-term goal.
counties that assist in the donation Coalition for the Homeless. The BUP is run by a totally volunteer
of “gently-loved” coats for chil- Board of Directors; does note have
dren. BUP helps individuals, groups, any paid employees and has no of-
companies and organizations in fice or facility to operate from. Cur-
Northwest Florida collect coats rently they only have a logo (noted
and deliver them to local agencies in this document) and up until this
that distribute them free, to people point has relied on informal emails
in need. Since its inception in 2007, and direct mail letters to local busi-
more than 5,000 coats have been nesses encouraging them to have
collected and distributed through coat drives or “sponsor” the efforts
activities organized by the BUP, av- of the organization in some way.
eraging approximately 1,250 coats
per year.