Chase Plastics is happy to announce $15,000 in donations to three deserving charities this holiday season through its annual Chase Giving Card campaign. Each charity will receive a $5,000 donation in the name of the person who nominated them, totaling $15,000 in donations this year as the campaign marks its 10th anniversary. The winners, all nominated by Chase Plastics’ customers, are:

Abby’s House in Worcester, MA.  Mary-Beth nominated them and said, “This is a non-profit shelter that has beds and low-income housing for battered women and children. Abby’s house has been around for 50 years.  I have chosen to help DV shelters in my mother’s name. She was sadly murdered due to domestic violence.”

• Visit: https://abbyshouse.org/

Comfort Cases in Gaithersburg, MD. Gina nominated them and says, “On any given day, more than 368,000 children are in foster care in the United States. Many are removed from their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs. If they do have personal belongings, they are often given a trash bag to carry them in—a painful experience during an already traumatic time.  Comfort Cases is changing that. This organization believes that every child deserves dignity, comfort, and a sense of worth. Instead of a trash bag, children receive a brand-new backpack filled with both essential and comfort items, such as pajamas, a warm blanket, toiletries, and a stuffed animal to hold onto during their transition into foster care.  The goal is simple but powerful: end the practice of trash bags in foster care and ensure that every child entering the system has something of their own—something that says, “You matter.”

• Visit: https://comfortcases.org/

Homeless Alliance in Oklahoma City, OK. Andrew nominated them and said, “The Homeless Alliance operates a multi-agency homeless resource campus where people can get help from nonprofit and government agencies that provide health clinics, veterans services, budgeting, legal assistance, and more. The campus includes Oklahoma City’s only low-barrier Day Shelter, which offers breakfast and lunch, showers, mail service, a pet kennel, and access to classes and other service providers. The Homeless Alliance also has a street outreach team that goes out into the community to find and connect people with services, and it operates four low-barrier employment programs. The ultimate goal of the Homeless Alliance is to move people off the streets and into the safety and security of a home, so it operates multiple housing programs for people experiencing homelessness—families with children, veterans, victims of domestic violence, people exiting the justice system, people who are HIV positive, and people who are chronically homeless.”

• Visit: https://www.homelessalliance.org/