Kenny The Kleener Helps Rotary with Coat Drive
Over 500 Coats were donated and cleaned for locals
- Niles Wet and Niles North High Schools-We received their mid-year locker clean outs, which always includes high end coats, jackets and clothing.
- Malloy Education Center in Morton Grove-They collected underwear and socks
- The Skokie Public Library Knitting Group-They gave us a large donation of hand knitted blankets and baby hats.
- Two local Girl Scout troops donated/volunteered-One troop from Madison School and another connected to our church members, Ginny and Grace Johnson.
- St. Andrew, Chicago-Sock donation
- Lincoln Junior High-Clothing donation
- Skokie Public Library-Donation of t-shirts
- An online non-profit clothing company-A large donation of brand new clothing
- Notre Dame High School-The Freshman/Sophomore Class Council Collected new hats and scarves
- Partnership Financial Credit Union, Morton Grove-40 coats collected
Saturday October 26, 2019, while some were having a great time during Trunk or Treat, our Niles Township / St. Paul Lutheran Clothing Closet volunteers, led by Joanie McKinney, were loading up extra clothes to a Uhaul truck. These clothes were brought to Savers. Savers pays 26 cents per pound for the clothing. This group loaded 2,500 pounds of clothes. This money is used to buy underwear and socks for the families we serve. One of the volunteer groups that helped load the truck was a student group from Niles West High School. Thank you to those students for all they did! Posted are pictures of the group.
Our local High School District 219 held an event May 1, 2019, entitled Powerful Partnerships 2019. Jill Mueller, a member of St. Paul was asked to speak at the event about the Clothing Closet.
Watch her presentation in the video below. It begins at 52:17.
Thanks Jill!
For the video click, here.
The Niles Township Community Clothing Closet
St. Paul Skokie is home to The Niles Township Community Clothing Closet, an organization that supplies families in need with coats and necessary clothing.
The Clothing Closet provides two to three gently used outfits and a set of new socks and underwear to each child so that families can focus on learning and not worry about appropriate clothing for school. It relies on the community to provide donations of gently used clothing. While the focus is on the needs of those in our local schools, we try to provide what we can to anyone who is in need – children and adults.
The organization relies on referrals from local social workers to primarily serve children attending school within Niles Township (Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, and Skokie). Adults needing assistance are invited to contact their local social workers at Niles Township Government or the Village of Skokie’s Human Services, who are also able to provide a referral to the clothing closet. Families must have a referral from a local social worker and must make an appointment in order to receive clothing.
Donations of clean and gently used clothing may be dropped off anytime at the back door of our school building, through the parking lot off of George Street. Tax documents can be provided as proof of donation if you contact our church office first. For more information on how to volunteer or donate to this cause, contact our church office at 847-673-5030 or office@stpaulskokie.org.