Community Coat Exchange

Community Coat Exchange Annual Community Coat Exchange: Bring a coat, take a coat: If you need a coat, come get one. If you have a coat, we know someone who can use it.

A community event inspired by people across the nation who want to effect a change in our world. Every year people all over the United States spend the day after Thanksgiving getting ready for the holiday season by patronizing retail businesses for gift buying. We perceived a need for a project for the same day that would be useful and meaningful, as well as educational, and that focuses on concer

ns about the ecological and psychological consequences of our consumer culture and the imp...act of our consumerism on society. To that end, a new community-oriented project was born: The Community Coat Exchange. Patterned after a similar event in Rhode Island, the Coat Exchange is a collection and distribution of winter coats and other clothing items. The event is held between 10 AM and 2PM the day after Thanksgiving. The idea is for folks to bring donations to any of the drop off centers (see right sidebar for partners and drop off centers) before Thanksgiving or to the event itself. At the event, no questions are asked: If you need a coat, come get one. If you want to exchange a coat, bring the coat you want to donate and take one in exchange. If you have a donation of coats, we know people who can use them. Left over coats are donated to the Crossroads Urban Center Thrift Store, a project of the Crossroads Urban Center which advocates for low income and homeless people. The Crossroads Urban Center Thrift Store gives clothes away to poor people and also sells clothes and other goods in its retail shop to the general public to help fund the Crossroads Urban Center programs. Becoming a Community Partner is easy! Partners agree to:
Promote the Community Coat Exchange with outreach materials (flyers and social media, websites, etc.) that include the Coat Exchange website address and contact information. Community partners also agree to endeavor to set up collection sites if possible. Contact [email protected] to learn how to become a Community Partner!
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Sister Events in these cities (visit http://coatexchange.wordpress.com/sister-coat-exchanges for more info):
Kentucky
in Louisville and Radcliff
http://louisvillebuynothingday.tumblr.com/
Oregon
Eugene at Bad Egg Books - http://badeggbooks.net/
sponsored by the Eugene IWW
http://www.eugeneiww.org/
Rhode Island
in Providence, Pawtucket, Newport, Wakefield and Woonsocket
http://www.greens.org/ri/bnd.html

11/14/2024

Due to unforseen circumstances there will be no organized coat exchange in 2024. Please donate warm winter items to Crossroads Urban Center Thriftstore or Unsheltered Utah. We hope to resume in 2025 for our 20th annual coat exchange!

12/16/2023

We are happy to report that we donated approximately 100 warm clothing items and accessories to Unsheltered Utah yesterday for our annual community coat exchange. Thank you to the Wellness Council of the the Department of Health and Human Services for their contributions.

11/17/2023

IMPORTANT - The Community Coat Exchange has been extended through December 15. We will NOT be holding it at "The Island" the day after Thanksgiving as originally posted. We will provide further details soon. Please hold on to your coats you'd like to donate or exhange. Thank you!

The 2023 Community Coat Exchange is extended through December 15, 2023. Further details are forthcoming.Donations can al...
10/25/2023

The 2023 Community Coat Exchange is extended through December 15, 2023. Further details are forthcoming.

Donations can also be dropped off to Unsheltered Utah at
Brickyard Kennel~1221 E 3300 S~Salt Lake City
coatexchange.org
Need a coat? Come get one. Have a coat? We know someone who can use it!

After the COVID hiatus, Blue Sky Institute's Community Coat Exchange decided this year to revive its event by collecting...
12/20/2022

After the COVID hiatus, Blue Sky Institute's Community Coat Exchange decided this year to revive its event by collecting and donating coats to Unsheltered Utah and Our Unsheltered Relatives (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066793994856) over Thanksgiving weekend. Please consider donating to and/or volunteering for these organizations which continue to collectively provide shelter and food, caring and compassion for the unsheltered.

Unsheltered Utah, in deep collaboration with O.U.R's - Our Unsheltered Relatives and First United Methodist Church of Salt Lake City, UT, has created a program that's nothing short of a miracle. We're showing all night movies, in the church, providing warmth, snacks and bathrooms. We've had about 85 people each night, on 4 nights where someone has frozen outside every night.

However, one organization left and took their mats, leaving us again in need.

Mats can be dropped at our drop locations along the Wasatch Front.

Dogs All Day 1370 400 W, Salt Lake City

Brickyard Kennel 1221 E 3300 S, Millcreek, UT

Northern Realty 1201 N Hill Field Rd, Ste 2071, Layton

Box Elder News Journal
55 S 100 W, Brigham City

If you live in or near Louisville, KY, check out the Free Coat Exchange
10/28/2021

If you live in or near Louisville, KY, check out the Free Coat Exchange

There are other coat exchanges going on around the country. If you live in or near Rhode Island, check this long standin...
10/28/2021

There are other coat exchanges going on around the country. If you live in or near Rhode Island, check this long standing event out.

spread the warmth

Blue Sky Institute's annual Community Coat Exchange held on Buy Nothing Day, the day after Thanksgiving. Watch our socia...
10/18/2021

Blue Sky Institute's annual Community Coat Exchange held on Buy Nothing Day, the day after Thanksgiving. Watch our social media pages and website each year for the location. We encourage everyone to please donate coats and warm winter clothing items to Crossroads Urban Center Thriftstore
(https://www.crossroadsurbancenter.org/clothes.html), which for over 50 years has been providing clothing and other necessities to poverty-stricken community members. Each year our leftover coats from the coat exchange are delivered to Crossroads. Please continue supporting this important work by donating your items.
If you are unable to get your items to Crossroads, please safely seek out neighbors in need - sheltered and unsheltered - by providing your no-longer-needed clothing items for the winter.
If you and your family/friends will be donating coats this year, please take photos and post on this page so that we can see the giving and exchanging continues.
Thank you for your support over the years. We appreciate our volunteers and everyone who has participated in this effort. Since 2005 we have given away/exchanged thousands of coats and clothing items on Buy Nothing Day. We hope this year will yield the same results, just in different ways. Love to all.
Crossroads Urban Center
Crossroads Urban Center Thrift Store

Reminder to Buy Nothing Today and to give warm winter clothing items to the organization of your choice:
11/27/2020

Reminder to Buy Nothing Today and to give warm winter clothing items to the organization of your choice:

We are sad to not be able to hold our 16th Community Coat Exchange, however we are happy that there is so much giving i...
11/25/2020

We are sad to not be able to hold our 16th Community Coat Exchange, however we are happy that there is so much giving in our communities. We have urged people to please donate your coats to your charity of choice. We have always had as our partner Crossroads Urban Center Thriftstore. Each year we have taken the left over coats to that organization to give out to their clients they serve. We hope you will consider this tradition by donating yourself.

We have learned of another coat giving project through Salt Lake City School District, reported at the link below.

Whatever cause you support, there is huge need in our communities.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – Salt Lake City officials are worried thousands of students from the Salt Lake City School District will be without a winter coat this season. The pandemic has hit fa…

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