Top Places To Give Right Now

1. Donate socks to the homeless through a local organization, the Joy of Sox.

2. A donor can choose to make a single gift to a child, adopt an entire family that is struggling to survive. See the wish lists in the pdf section of this article.

3. In the Red Cross Holiday Catalogue you can make a donation in someone else’s name, but the money is used to buy specific items found in the catalogue. Some examples are, you can buy vaccines for an entire village, you can buy cots for victims of a tornado or other natural disaster, or buy phone cards for service members overseas to call their families. These are just three of the many possible ideas.

4. Look to local churches and their requests for giving: , , , , Christ Church Ithan, , , St. Martins Episcopal and .

5. Amtrak Police are collecting new and used winter coats for adults and children to bring to homeless shelters in Philadelphia. The collection point is in the atrium of the .

6. The is collecting gifts for local senior citizens. Drop off wrapped gifts and gift cards at the senior center.