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How you can help this holiday season

01:00 AM EST on Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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. Holiday giving and donation requests published previously will be posted on our Web site, projo.com.

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

THANKSGIVING

Camp Street Community Ministries

This organization seeks fresh or frozen turkeys and all the fixings for Thanksgiving food baskets for those in need. Donations should be dropped off by Nov. 24. The group is at 194 Camp St., Providence, RI 02906. Call 421-5474.

Capital City Community Centers

This multiservice center seeks cash donations, grocery gift cards and Thanksgiving food items for local families in need. Donations can be dropped off at 110 Ruggles St., Providence. Call 455-3880, ext. 226.

Mary House

The social service ministry of St. Patrick Church, 17 Washburn St., Providence, seeks cash donations, gift certificates, socks, hats, gloves and nonperishable food and new toys. For more information, call 274-6286, or visit www.maryhouseprov.org.

McAuley House

This meal site for the hungry seeks cash donations for its hot meals program, pharmacy and grocery gift cards, toiletries and warm hats, gloves and socks. The house is at 622 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907. Call the Rev. Mary Margaret Earl at 941-9013.

CHRISTMAS

Northeast Engineers & Consultants

This engineering firm at 55 John Clarke Rd., Middletown, is collecting nonperishable food items for the Martin Luther King Center’s “Feed-A-Friend” program. Drop donations off by Dec. 14, or arrange to have them picked up by calling Mary Pat Radeka at 380-1209 or Cecile Brown at 380-1294.

Tax Cuts for Christmas

A committee in Seekonk is seeking contributions that can be used to reduce the property tax bills of elderly and disabled residents.

Checks, which are tax deductible, should be made payable to “Town of Seekonk Taxation Aid Fund,” and mailed to the Collector’s Office, 100 Peck St., Seekonk, Mass. 02771.

GENERAL

Coats for Kids Drive

Aquidneck Chiropractic and the Florence Grey Center will host a “coats for kids” drive through Saturday. New patients will receive first-day services in exchange for a donation of a new or gently used coat. Call 849-7011 to make an appointment.

Rhode Island Family Shelter

This shelter seeks food donations and volunteers. Call 739-8584.

Samaritans of Rhode Island

Samaritans seeks volunteers to answer its crisis/listening lines (401-272-4044; 800-365-4044) especially during the holiday season and money to support its suicide prevention programs. Send donations to The Samaritans Inc., P.O. Box 9086, Providence, RI 02904. For details about volunteering, visit www.samaritansri.org, or call 272-4243.

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