Here are a few examples. Who do you know who would like to join hands with Operation Shoebox?
- We salute- the many Sam’s Club employees across the nation have given their time to collect items to ship to our troops around the globe. Sam’s Club members have partnered with them to donate items for Operation Shoebox care packages.
- We salute-comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham promotes our mission regularly and spreads the word about our continual need for candy to add to our boxes. So far, we estimate receiving a whopping 10,000 pounds of candy from around the country. Visit here to learn more about this patriotic funny guy.
- We salute- Montgomery County Association Family & Community Education for collecting and shipping goodies from Maryland!
- We salute Advance America associates for working hard to collect over 7,000 items for our care packages.
- We salute DTE Energy & the Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant for collecting 300 pounds of homegrown love and support to ship overseas.
- We salute the Girl Scouts of the Greater Atlanta area for providing Girl Scout cookies to our heroes and the Girl Scouts of the Heart of New Jersey for assembling care packages.
For more information about sending cookies to the troops, please contact:
Melissa Brandon
Product Sales Manager
Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta
5601 N. Allen Road
Mableton GA 30126 - We salute Iridium Technology for coordinating a drive that yielded four tons of donations.
- We Salute Connecticut-based company Ward Leonard for holding an Operation Shoebox charity drive, as well as the Thomaston American Legion and the Thomaston Rotary Club. 481 pounds of goodies were collected for our overseas troops!