One Warm Coat Drive Helps Local People In Need Stay Warm

Online, November 15, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The need has never been greater and it's never been easier to make a difference in your community. Here is your opportunity to make sure that nobody goes without such a basic necessity as a coat this winter.

Pre-Owned Luxury Car & Truck and AutoTrader.com are collecting clean, gently used coats and jackets as part of the One Warm Coat community service project. Coats of all shapes sizes are welcome. One Warm Coat is dedicated to distributing reusable coats, free of charge, directly to local children and adults. The program is an easy way for you and your family to pass along coats and jackets that you no longer need.

Pre-Owned Luxury Car & Truck and AutoTrader.com have made donating a coat simple. Just bring your clean, gently used coats and jackets to Pre-Owned Luxury Car & Truck, located at 619 Francisco Blvd E, San Rafael, CA 94901 (alongside 101 north, under the clock tower) from 10am to 7pm on Saturday 11/17/2012. Then Pre-Owned Luxury Car & Truck will take care of the rest. All donated coats will be given to Michelle Painter-Jones of AutoTrader.com for distribution to local people in need.

"More people than ever need help these days. I am proud of the thousands of coat drive organizers whose creativity and generosity of spirit have made helping people so easy and who are making a real difference in their own communities." commented Sherri Wood, President and National Coordinator for One Warm Coat.

"We are looking forward to another successful One Warm Coat drive with AutoTrader.com. Our drive last year yielded over 100 donated coats! Michelle Painter-Jones with AutoTrader.com will be the hostess at our location, collecting coats and serving up cookies and refreshments for donars!" stated Deanna Cross, General Manager of Pre-Owned Luxury Car & Truck.

One Warm Coat is a national non-profit organization that supports and encourages coat drives. It helps individuals, groups, companies and organizations across the country collect coats and deliver them to local agencies that distribute the coats free to people in need. More than one million coats have been provided to those in need at no cost since its inception in 1992.