Wise School families donated clothes to our Volunteer Collective Clothing Drive bin before our official collection began during the High Holy Days. (Photo by Ryan Gorcey)

Volunteer Collective’s Interfaith Layer Up Warm Clothing Drive: Sorting and Distributing

During the High Holy Days, the Stephen Wise Temple and Schools community collected hundreds of pounds of warm winter clothing for underserved LAUSD students and their families. Wise was one of nearly 30 collection locations for Volunteer Collective’s Interfaith Layer Up Clothing Drive.

Now, it’s time to sort and distribute those items and all the others collected at synagogues and other houses of worship during the past three weeks.

Sorting starts on Oct. 14 at the Pico Union Project (1153 Valencia St., Los Angeles, CA 90015). The sorting will be outside with tables set up for clothes for adults and kids, by general size and type. Water and snacks will be provided.

The next day, Oct. 15, over 100 volunteers will show up in different shifts and sorting will continue. By mid-morning, the families from the Pico Union district will be filtering in to pick up the clothes. Volunteers will hand out the clothes and help people find the items they want. Spanish speakers will be very useful. As the day goes along, volunteers will straighten out the donations on the table and continue sorting donations and refilling the tables.

At the end of the day, volunteers will bag up what is left and donations will be brought to groups in other parts of town which are also in need including:

  • Food on Foot which distributes to people unhoused in Hollywood
  • Project Ropa, which brings mobile closets to neighbors in need
  • The Monroe Community of Schools (Arleta)
  • The LA Trial Lawyers Day of Dignity distribution in Hollywood 10/28 at Blessed Sacrament Church
  • The Boyle Heights Community of Schools
  • LA Can
  • and others

All you have to do is sign up and show up

https://forms.gle/wyvJhRwx2RqhVu4d8📤

And if you have additional warm clothes to donate, you can bring them along.

WHERE: Pico Union Project
1153 Valencia Street, LA, CA 90015

Saturday, Oct. 14 Sorting Day: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 15 Sorting & Distributing Day: 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.