REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive | Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver

November 28 - December 5, 2011

The results are in!

This year, the Blanket Drive helped 19,000 working poor and homeless throughtout the Lower Mainland!
View Episode 13 for the full story.

Press release - Blanket Drive continues to spread warmth to those who need it most


Episode 13 Result!

Episode 1 About us!	Episode 2 How it started	Episode 3 The poster	Episode 4 Partnering with schools

Episode 5 Clothes for Covenant House	Episode 6 Why we help	Episode 7 Starts today!	Episode 8 The drop off

Episode 9 A ride with the VPD	Episode 10 A fashionable exchange	Episode 11 Sorting for charities	Episode 12 Delivering donations to charities

Welcome to the REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive, the longest running blanket drive in the Lower Mainland! Since 1995, more than 165,000 people have received clothing or a blanket from the annual drive.

Needed donations

New or gently used
• blankets, sleeping bags
• warm clothing - coats, jeans, pants, sweaters
• scarves, gloves, mitts, hats

New (women, children, men)
• socks
• underwear

The REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive story

Way back in 1995, some caring REALTORS® in Vancouver observed the homeless situation in the city’s eastside and said to themselves, we’ve got to do something.

They put out an appeal to their fellow colleagues for warm blankets and coats and collected 600 bags of donations specifically dedicated to Vancouver’s homeless in the downtown core.

That single act of kindness has blossomed into one of the largest annual collections of warm clothing and blankets, helping homeless people and the working poor in every single community in the Lower Mainland.

Seventeen years later, thousands of REALTORS® from Whistler to Chilliwack have collected enough donations to help more than 166,000 people in need. Each year, more than 75 dedicated members actually pick-up and deliver all the donations, and well over 100 real estate offices in the Lower Mainland act as collection depots.

The annual REALTORS Care® Drive now collects an astonishing 5,000 plus bags of warm, winter items on behalf of dozens of local charities. back to top