Pinellas Tax Collector Employees Sock It To Us For Children In Need

PINELLAS COUNTY, FL — Pinellas County Tax Collector Charles W. Thomas and members of his team delivered 2,047 pairs of socks to the nonprofit, Clothes to Kids, in Clearwater.

Clothes to Kids serves Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. Its mission is to provide new and gently used clothing to low-income or in-crisis school-age children free of charge. It provided over 300,000 clothing items to children in 2022 alone.

Clothes to Kids is the Pinellas County Tax Collector's employee-selected charity of the year. Every year, employees are surveyed to determine what charitable cause they would like to support with internal fundraising efforts. This year, in addition to the Thread of Hope fundraising initiative, which invites employees to break the dress code by donating to the cause, each office held a Sock it to Us sock drive for Clothes to Kids.

Throughout June and July, both employees and customers were invited to donate new girls' and ladies' socks for Clothes to Kids. Each child who qualifies for the Clothes to Kids program receives five outfits twice a year for school including new socks and underwear.

The tax collector offices' donations will help clothe 409 Pinellas County students.

"It is amazing to see all the different ways our organization can give back to our community," Thomas said, "Clothes to Kids does a wonderful job building the confidence of Pinellas County students and I am honored that our donations will help them with that mission."