Employees of Collette Vacations in Pawtucket have collected more than 6,000 pounds of food for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. The company-wide collection effort involved all departments, including those from "air operations" who are pictured here helping to get the food ready for transport.

The Providence Journal / Kathy Borchers

The Providence Journal is publishing requests from local charities for holiday giving. If your nonprofit organization is seeking holiday donations or volunteers, or if it has services or goods to offer the needy, we will publish your request once during this holiday season, as space permits. The complete list of holiday giving and donations will be posted on our Web site, projo.com.

To be included in either list, please send your information, including a name and contact number, to pjnews@projo.com. Put “Holiday giving” in the subject field.

THANKSGIVING

The Cumberland Happy Basket Program

This program seeks canned and/or packaged foods, money for food and gift certificates for turkeys for food baskets assembled for Thanksgiving. Donations may be dropped off at the Cumberland Senior Center, 1464 Diamond Hill Rd., Cumberland, RI 02864. Cash donations may be sent to The Happy Basket Program, P.O. Box 7611, Cumberland, RI 02864. Call John Johnson at (401) 427-1282, or Lee Drury at (401) 334-2555.

Exeter Community Food Bank

The Volunteer Fire Department at 305 Ten Rod Rd. seeks donations for holiday food baskets and gifts. Call Sylvia Curry at 294-3176.

John Hope Settlement House

This community-based organization at 7 Thomas P. Whitten Way, Providence, seeks cash donations, grocery gift cards and food for Thanksgiving baskets. Call 455-2330.

St. Andrew Lutheran Church

The church at 15 East Beach Rd., Charleston, seeks donations for holiday food baskets and gifts. Call Kathy Stedman or Barbara Anderson at 322-0088, or e-mail chipmunkscrafts@cox.net

St. Mary’s / St. James Community Food Pantry

This food pantry at 2075 Matunuck School House Rd., Charlestown, seeks donations for holiday food baskets and gifts. Call Debbie Nigrelli at 364-9412, or e-mail Believeyoucan@cox.net.

South Providence Neighborhood Ministries

This agency seeks cash donations, gift cards and food for Thanksgiving food baskets. Call 461-7509, r e-mail info@spnm.org.

Trinity Lutheran Church

The church at 110 High St., Ashaway, seeks donations for Thanksgiving food baskets and holiday gifts. Call Hermine Barton at 377-4340, or e-mail trinityashaway@hotmail.com.

The Urban Collaborative

This alternative middle school that serves as a dropout prevention program for students from Providence, Cranston and Central Falls seeks cash donations and gift cards to help purchase holiday food baskets for the school’s families in need. Call 272-0881.

The Westerly Area Rest Meals

This emergency shelter at 56 Spruce St., Westerly, seeks donations for its holiday food baskets as well as grocery, retail and gas cards. Call Noella Blackwell at 596-9276.

Wood River Health Services

The center is seeking donations for holiday food baskets as well as gift certificates or cards for gas, groceries, pharmacies, heating fuel, phone time or retail stores for holiday shopping. Donations may be dropped off or mailed, c/o Cindy Gardiner, to 823 Main St., Hope Valley 02832. Call 539-2461, ext. 136, or e-mail Cindy.gardiner@woodriverhealthservices.org.

GENERAL

Food for Fines

Tiverton’s Essex Library, 238 Highland Rd., will accept donations of nonperishable food items instead of money for the return of any overdue book, DVD or CD through Nov. 26. Bring in one food item for each overdue library item and the library will donate it to a local food bank. Call 625-6796.

WHERE TO GO FOR HELP

Church of St. Michael the Archangel

Volunteers and donations are needed for the Thanksgiving Day dinner which will be served from noon to 2 p.m. at the church, at 239 Oxford St., Providence. For those interested, the day begins with an international Mass at 10 a.m. Take-out dinners can be ordered for those in zip codes 02903, 02905, 02907 and 02909 by calling 781-7210. All other take-out orders will be covered by St. Patrick Church on Smith Street by calling 421-7070. For more information or to make a donation, call Sister Ann Keefe at (401) 781-7210.

Union Baptist Church

The church, 50 Lupine St., Pawtucket, will hold its 7th-annual dinner for those in need at noon on Thanksgiving Day. Call 724-8887.