Responsible Retail

On January 20, the Campus Police at the University of Rhode Island received 50 Buy-Give-Get coats and 50 OSJL Charitable Foundation buckets with lids to distribute to The Center for Military and Veteran Education, located on the URI campus. Paul Hanrahan (left) from URI Campus Police, shown here with Eric Cole, STL at Store 104 – Coventry, RI, visited the store over the weekend to shop for supplies, like hand-warmers, gloves, and more to go in each of the buckets along with the Buy-Give-Get coats. These cold-weather “kits,” will go a long way toward ensuring veterans in need can keep warm through these last frigid months.

Recently, Store Team 325 – Meriden, CT, made their first Close to Our Heart donation of the year to Best Buddies of Connecticut. Best Buddies, a nonprofit organization, serves as a support system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Their programs help to break the perceptions of what individuals living with IDD can accomplish and achieve.

Store Team 259 – Weymouth, MA, made a Close to Our Heart donation to South Shore Stars, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive early education and youth development programs that enhance the optimal growth and development of children from economically and culturally diverse families, using a family support approach in collaboration with schools and other service providers.

On February 21, 2024 the OSJL Charitable Foundation will make a donation of 1,000 Buy-Give-Get winter coats to the American Legion Women’s Auxiliary leading up to the game at Villanova, and will donate an additional $500 OSJL gift card to a deserving female veteran, who will be honored during halftime for her service and sacrifice to our country.