The generous agents & communities around Coldwell Banker offices collected the thousands of gifts including laptops and bikes! The gifts will go to needy families in the Boston area in The Home’s care, making their holiday seasons a little brighter.
Olympia Moving & Storage donates logistics assistance to the drive every year, picking up the gifts from the Coldwell Banker offices and delivering to the Home for Little Wanderer’s Toy Room in Rosindale. Coldwell Banker has filled an Olympia Moving truck with gifts every year, so our crew was pleasantly surprised to discover that the gift drive would require two trucks this year!
Olympia Moving crew members Charles & David
The Olympia Moving truck plays host to the Coldwell Banker team, Miss Massachusetts, and Miss Teen Massachusetts
Charles helping unload the toys from the truck at The Home’s Toy Room in Rosindale
The Olympia Moving team poses with Merit McIntyre, regional Vice President of Coldwell Banker
We got this note of thanks from the Facilities Coordinator at Coldwell Banker:
We want to thank you for your help again with this year’s toy drive! As you probably know, this year we had two full trucks of toys to donate (the most ever!) and it would not have been possible without Olympia’s help! Deb even said that we donated more toys than Walmart and Bernie & Phyl’s. There will be a lot of happy children this Holiday season! Again, thank you for everything you do for CBRB and Happy Holiday’s!
We hope the families that receive these will have a brighter Christmas! More on Olympia Moving & Storage’s community involvement:
Happy holidays from Olympia Moving & Storage! December is the season of giving, and Olympia Moving & Storage is continuing their tradition of giving back to the communities in which we live & work. This month we had several opportunities to participate in great events and causes.
Home for Little Wanderer’s Big Wishes Gift Drive with Coldwell Banker
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage sponsored this gift drive to benefit children being served by the Home for Little Wanderers. CBRB offered their offices as drop-off locations for the drive. Olympia donated the trucks and labor to transport all the donations from CBRB offices across the state to The Home’s toy room. The crew, Nandor, Josh, and Glenn, even got in the spirit by wearing Santa’s elf hats to the delivery! Check out pictures from the delivery event below:
The gifts for the drive went to children in programs with The Home for Little Wanderers
The crew with Pat Villani, President of CBRB New England
The crew donned Santa’s elf hats for the occasion!
Heavy lifting for a good cause!
We transported the gifts from Coldwell Banker offices across the state
Thousands of gifts were donated
Unloading the gifts
Many volunteers were on hand to help!
All gifts were transported to the drive’s Toy Room at Legacy Place in Dedham
A lucky kid will be getting this bike for the holidays!
Volunteers got to work sorting the many donated gifts
The Olympia staff also donated gifts to the toy drive!
Photo by The Home for Little Wanderers
Photo by Coldwell Banker
Photo by The Home for Little Wanderers
Photo by The Home for Little Wanderers
Jolly Jaunt 5K to Benefit Special Olympics Massachusetts
The Jolly Jaunt 5K was just one of the many Special Olympics events we donate logistics assistance to. This is Olympia’s second year sponsoring the holiday-themed 5K around the Boston Common. The event raised almost $140,000 for athletes with intellectual disabilities!
Lauren, Manager of Strategic Development Initiatives at Special Olympics Massachusetts, had this to say about our donated assistance:
“Thank you so much for all of your help over this past few months! Everything went so well on Saturday, and it was greatly due to all of your and Olympia’s help. If you speak with Ben who was on site with us with the truck and helped us unload today, can you thank him for me on behalf of Special Olympics MA as a whole. Not only was he always willing to jump in and help, but he was beyond professional!”
St. Irene’s Parish Food Drive for the Greater Merrimack Velley Food Bank
For many years, Clark & Reid (Olympia’s executive relocation brand) has been donating boxes for St. Irene’s Parish’s food drive in Carlisle, MA.
This year, the Parish secured a pound for pound food match with Walmart. As a result, St. Irene’s received 2 tons of food this Thanksgiving, the most donations ever. As a result, Olympia/Clark & Reid donated 160 boxes to the drive, 60% more boxes versus previous years.
Congrats to St. Irene’s Parish for a successful food drive, which will benefit the Greater Merrimack Valley Food Bank.
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