Make sure it’s a warm winter…
by donating a clean, gently used blanket or purchasing a brand new one at any of the seven Dane County St. Vinny’s stores for Recycle the Warmth, the 29th annual blanket drive, January 29-31, 2021.
Can’t get out to buy a blanket? Donate online and with each gift of $13.99, we’ll buy a new blanket on your behalf. Click here for our blanket-drive donation page.
We’ve teamed up with News3Now, watch Recycle the Warmth video here
(Please scroll down for participating religious congregations that will be updated as we near the blanket drive)l
St. Vincent de Paul annually provides hundreds of needy people in Dane County with good-quality donated and new bedding. Area churches, our 7 Dane County St. Vincent de Paul thrift stores; News 3 Now/Channel 3000, and Mid-West Family Broadcasting radio stations are all supporting this annual blanket drive.
When to donate: Friday-Sunday, January 29-31 (Weekend before Super Bowl as of right now)
What and where to donate and/or purchase:
-Fri.-Jan. 29-31 you can donate gently used blankets, quilts, and bedding at our 7 Dane County thrift stores
-Jan. 29-31 you can purchase blankets at 7 Dane County St. Vinny’s thrift stores for only $13.99 each (plus tax) and donate them right there at the counter
-Sat., Jan. 30 from 10 am – 2 pm drive-through drop-off event at our Service Center (2033 Fish Hatchery Road), please put blankets in a bag in your trunk and volunteers will pick them up as you drive through
-Make a monetary donation at the St. Vinny’s stores or click here to give online right now.
Where to drop off:
-7 Dane County St. Vinny’s store locations
-Our Service Center (2033 Fish Hatchery Road) on Sat., Jan. 30 from 10 am – 2 pm
What will St. Vinny’s do with blankets?
All the bedding we collect or purchase during the drive will be given away people with low incomes who request help setting up housekeeping from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. St. Vincent de Paul members visit homes and provide vouchers to St. Vinny’s stores for essential furniture and household goods, as well as new airbeds that come with sheets and the blankets donors generously gave during Recycle the Warmth.
Participating Religious Congregations – Recycle the Warmth 2021:
(This list, alphabetical by community, will be updated as the blanket drive approaches.)
St. Patrick, Albany
St. Francis of Assisi, Belleville
St. Francis Xavier, Cross Plains
Blessed Sacrament, Madison
First Congregational UCC, Madison
Holy Redeemer Church, Madison
Our Lady Queen of Peace, Madison
St. Bernard, Madison
St. Dennis, Madison
St. Maria Goretti, Madison
St. Patrick, Madison
St. Peter, Madison
St. Thomas Aquinas, Madison
Christ the King, McFarland
McFarland Lutheran Church, McFarland
Holy Wisdom Monastery, Middleton
Middleton Community Church, Middleton
St. Bernard, Middleton
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Monona
Holy Mother of Consolation, Oregon
Covenant Lutheran, Stoughton
Good Shepherd by the Lake, Stoughton
St. Ann, Stoughton
Sacred Hearts, Sun Prairie
St. Albert, Sun Prairie
Salem UCC, Verona
St. Christopher, Verona
St. Mary of the Lake, Westport
St. John the Baptist, Waunakee
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St. Peter, Middleton
St. James Church, Madison
St. James School, Madison
St. Joseph, Madison
Lake Edge Lutheran, Madison
Lake Edge UCC, Madison
First United Methodist Church, Madison
Heritage Congregational Church, Madison
Covenant Presbyterian, Madison
First Baptist Church, Madison
Lake Edge United Church of Christ, Madison
St. Michael, Dane
St. Olaf, DeForest
St. Patrick, Lodi
St. Joseph, East Bristol
Pooh Bear Child Care, 290 Corporate Drive in Madison, also will serve as a collection point.
“It may be hard to visualize all those who benefited from receiving more than $2.6 million in assistance from us last year. But I invite you to stretch your imagination even further to see the good the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has done during the 90 years it has been at work here in Madison.”