Car Dealers Partner To Donate 6,300 New Winter Coats In Bucks Co.

The Auto Dealers Caring for Kids Foundation has plans to distribute 6,300 new winter coats to children in Bucks County.

The foundation, which will distribute a record 52,700 brand-new winter coats this month through its 12th Annual Driving Away the Cold Program, will deliver the coats to local YMCAs later this month.

The effort involves 170 local auto dealers, including 41 in Bucks County, who will team up to provide brand-new winter coats to area children.

One in six children in the Greater Philadelphia region lives in poverty and a warm winter coat is one of the essential items they often live without.

The dealer participants of the program annually conduct a pledge program to help raise funds to purchase the winter coats. The Auto Dealers Association of Greater Philadelphia donates $2.00 from every Philadelphia Auto Show ticket sold to its Auto Dealers Caring for Kids Foundation in support of the effort.

The coats are then distributed via 220 social services agencies, school districts, churches, shelters, etc. in the area, including 29 regional YMCA branches that serve as the program’s largest coat distribution partners.

Four YMCA branches in Bucks County will receive the brand-new winter coats this month via"Driving Away the Cold" delivery truck.

• Fairless Hills YMCA, Fairless Hills
• Upper Bucks YMCA, Quakertown
• Central Bucks YMCA, Doylestown
• Central Bucks YMCA, Warminster