Please Print the Following Instructions
Thank you for your interest in setting up, hosting, and volunteering to participate in a clothing drive for OASIS! All hours, including driving/transportation, will be counted towards high school community service hours. Plus, you will be helping many needy children.
Items to collect in a clothing drive – any or all of the items listed below:
Note: We do not accept toys or large household items at this time due to space restrictions.
Clothing drive instructions
1. Decide on a location for the drive. Locations include:
Thank you for your interest in setting up, hosting, and volunteering to participate in a clothing drive for OASIS! All hours, including driving/transportation, will be counted towards high school community service hours. Plus, you will be helping many needy children.
Items to collect in a clothing drive – any or all of the items listed below:
- New or gently used children/teen clothing appropriate to wear to school, sizes 4T – adult 5XL (Especially in need of boys’ shorts/pants currently)
- Hoody sweatshirts and lightweight jackets
- Gently used shoes (overly worn shoes will be recycled)
- New hygiene items: toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, deodorant, soap
- Linens: towels, sheets, blankets, comforters, washcloths
- New socks/underwear (used socks and underwear will be recycled)
- Baby clothes and items
Note: We do not accept toys or large household items at this time due to space restrictions.
Clothing drive instructions
1. Decide on a location for the drive. Locations include:
- local private or public school
- church or place of worship
- neighborhood or community
- special event (soccer tournament, football game, etc)
- organize pick-up of lost and found at local school, hotel, or other facility
- Advertise! Use your own creativity to advertise your drive
- Create a flyer to hand out or distribute
- Set up a Facebook event page
- Send emails to friends, family, neighbors
- Distribute emails through school
- Put ad in community papers
- Use OASIS ready-made bins (email Ginger at gingstubean@aol.com to schedule a pick-up of the bins or
- Create your own bins/boxes for collection or
- Pass out garbage bags with the flyer when distributed
- Place bins in location for duration of the drive, no more than a week or
- Collect individual boxes/bags at your neighbors’ houses
- Wash dirty items if appropriate and can be cleaned
- All usable school clothing should be folded and placed in boxes or bags labeled: Boys, Girls, Women, Men
- For non-appropriate items (torn, stained, used underwear, t-shirts with race dates, etc.), label Non-school items. (These items will be recycled.)
- Deliver items to OASIS located at Tampa Palms Elementary School, 6100 Tampa Palms Blvd or to OASIS in south Tampa at Manhattan Center.
- Email Ginger at gingstubean@aol.com to arrange for someone to meet you there for drop-off.
- Your community service form will signed at this time.
