Headwear for the Homeless

December 10, 2009

Overview by the numbers

• 3rd annual event

• Donate more than 6,000 hats in 10 cities

• 11 companies participated

• 21 shelters/non-profits benefited

• News clips: more than 100

Participants – 2009

• Bollman Hats

• Dorfman-Pacific

• Grace Hats

• Hat Attack

• Jay Gerish, Inc.

• Kathy Jeanne, Inc.

• NES Enterprises

• Outback Trading

• Outdoor Cap

• Philadelphia Rapid Transit

• San Diego Hat

Bollman Hats – Reading, PA

Don Rongione & Bridget Hoagland distributed

more than 150 warm hats at Opportunity House &

Mary’s Shelter in Reading, PA

Bollman Hats – New York

Bollman Hats donated approx.

2,000 hats to the following

NYC groups:

• Robin Hood

• Part of the Solution

• Yorkville Common Pantry

• The Food Bank

Bollman Hats - Chicago

Susan Weiss, SWPR,

THA’s publicist, handed

out more than 100 warm hats to people at

St. Vincent de Paul

Center in Chicago.

Dorfman-Pacific

Dorfman Pacific distributed more than 750 hats to:

• Women’s Center of San Joaquin County (CA)

• Stockton Shelter for the Homeless (CA)

• Haven of Peace (CA)

• Abused Adult Resource Center (N. Dakota)

Grace Hats - NYC

Dan Brody and his team from Grace Hats

handed out over 200 thick, warm hats to

homeless and underprivileged New Yorkers

on one of the coldest days this winter.

Hat Attack

After reading about Headwear for the Homeless event in a

Hat Life newsletter, Bill Gedney of Hat Attack in NY –

generously donated 700 hats to the MGR Foundation, a

nonprofit that send volunteers out on the streets to hand-out

hats, coats, gloves, blankets, toiletries etc… directly to the

homeless living on the streets.

NES Enterprises, Jay Gerish

and Kathy Jeanne, Inc.

Sheldon Salkovitch &

Joe Gerish distributed

400 hats to people in

need at Eva’s Village in

Paterson, NJ.

Outback Trading

Outback Trading

distributed 65 warm hats

to men at the Ridge Ave.

Shelter in Center City,

Philadelphia.

Outdoor Cap

Havenwood in

Bentonville, AR

Outdoor Cap gave generously to the following organizations:

Outdoor Cap (con’t)

Outdoor Cap gave away 1,368 hats to seven

worthwhile organizations in the Benton County area.

(Pictured: OC rep: Connie Huffman)

Philadelphia Rapid Transit

Mitten Tree Project

David Goldman,

PRT teamed up with

Haddonfield

Friend’s School to

donate 175 hats to

their “Mitten Tree

project” that

provides, hats,

gloves and scarves to

local youth

charities.

San Diego Hat

Hats to be donated to homelessNORTH COUNTY ---- The San Diego Hat Company of Carlsbad and The Headwear Association will donate hats, beanies and caps for the annual Headwear for the Homeless campaign from 5 to 6 p.m. Dec. 10 at the Bread of Life Rescue Mission, 1919 Apple St., Suite I, Oceanside. Call 760-722-0800.

San Diego Hat distributed 175 hats