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

Bradford Jonnycake Center

This center, located at 23 Industrial Dr., Westerly, seeks monetary donations for its Heating Assistance Fund and food pantry. They also seek volunteers to “adopt a family” for the holiday. Donations of new, unwrapped toys would also be appreciated. Checks should be mailed to P.O. Box 273, Bradford, RI 02808. Call Claire Letezio at 377-8069.

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. For more information, call (401) 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.

Cranston Rotary Club

The club seeks cash donations to put together and distribute more than 60 Thanksgiving baskets which will cost $35 a piece. Call Mark Saccoccio at 942-7970.

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.

DaVinci Center for Community Progress

The center seeks monetary donations, gift certificates for food and volunteers to donate Thanksgiving baskets and adopt a child for the holidays. Send donations to 470 Charles St., Providence, RI 02904. Call Bob McIntyre or Allison Houle at 272-7474.

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.

Helping Other People in Emergencies

The organization is looking for food baskets, turkeys or vouchers for them and all the fixings, cash donations, new toys, gift certificates and new winter clothing. Send to 2 Mattie St., Providence, RI 02909. Call 521-0706.

HOPE

This agency seeks new winter clothing in all sizes, underwear, diapers, personal items, food baskets, grocery and retail gift cards, diapers, baby blankets, cash donations and gifts for teens. It’s located at 85 Eliza St., Providence, RI 02909. Call 943-3987.

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.

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 (401) 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 Rev. Mary Margaret Earl, 941-9013.

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 or 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.

CHRISTMAS

Adopt-A-Family

This Woonsocket charity seeks donors to be matched with families by Dec. 1. Donors will be sent a wish list with details on the children they adopt. All gifts will be accepted during the week of Dec. 7-13. Call 766-2291 or e-mail adoptafamily@cox.net.

Caritas

This residential treatment center for teens with substance abuse issues seeks gift cards, toiletries,

knitting supplies, puzzles, games, movies, CDs, inspirational books, journals, note-cards, magazines, books, sports items, warm clothes, t-shirts, slippers and pajamas for the 48 clients available for sponsorship. Call Beth Watson at 722-4644.

Camp Street Community Ministries

This organization seeks monetary donations, toys, books, games and tights for children ages 1 to 16; toiletries, stationery and trinkets for men and women. The group is at 194 Camp St., Providence, RI 02906. Call (401) 421-5474.

Capital City Community Centers

This multiservice center’s "Adopt-a-Family" program seeks cash donations and donors to purchase gifts and holiday necessities for local families in need. Donations can be dropped off at 110 Ruggles St., Providence, through Dec. 3. Call 455-3880, ext. 226.

Choose-A-Child Holiday Gift Giving Program

Swansea Mall, along with the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, will collect and distribute gifts to children from infant to age 18. Drop off an unwrapped $20 to $25 gift at the customer center by Dec. 21 and become eligible for a chance to win a $200 mall gift card.

The East Greenwich Department of Human Services

This agency will provide Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets to assist families during the holiday season. It is also sponsoring the adopt-a-family program in East Greenwich and seeks donations of new toys, WalMart and gas cards, and volunteers interested in adopting families. Make checks payable to East Greenwich Human Services and send to 125 Main St., East Greenwich RI 02818. Call Caroline Tudino at 886-8638.

Exeter Town Hall

The Social Services Department on Ten Rod Road seeks donations for Christmas food baskets and gifts. Call 294-3891.

North Kingstown Department of Social Services

This agency seeks volunteers to "adopt" the children of a family in need. Donors buy gifts and clothing for the children only and provide a grocery gift card for the holiday meal. Gas and retail cards are needed as well. Call Marcia Blair at 268-1593.

Northeast Engineers & Consultants

This engineering firm at 55 John Clarke Rd. in Middletown is collecting nonperishable food item 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.

St. Vincent’s Home

This residential treatment and special education center, 2425 Highland Ave., Fall River, seeks donations of Christmas presents and contributions for its Children’s Holiday Festivities for 120 children from age 4 to 21. Call (508) 235-3310 or (508) 235-3413.

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 Collectors Office, 100 Peck St., Seekonk, Mass. 02771.

GENERAL

Barnes & Noble Book Drive

The book store, 1350-B Bald Hill Rd., Warwick, will hold a book drive to benefit the J. Arthur Trudeau Memorial Early Intervention Center in Warwick. Customers may donate books to children in need through Jan. 1.

Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange

This event takes place Friday, Nov. 28, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on the State House lawn. Volunteers and winter coats are needed. Coats will be given away at the event and will be distributed to other organizations that will give them away around the state. Rain location is St. Patrick’s School, 244 Smith St., Providence. This year the coat exchange will also take place at the Blackstone Valley Visitors Center, 175 Main St., Pawtucket, and St. Paul’s Church, 12 West Marlborough St., Newport, at the same time. St. Francis Church, 114 High St., Wakefield, will distribute coats from 10 a.m. to noon. For more information on the Providence event, call Greg Gerrit at 331-0529 or Phil Edmonds at 273-4650 or e-mail gerritt@mindspring.com or philwhistle@juno.com. For more information on the Pawtucket event, call Arthur Pitt at 724-8915 or e-mail kingarthur02940@yahoo.com. For more information on the Newport event, call Maggie Bulmer at 849-3537. For more information on the Wakefield event, call Tom Abbott at 364-0778.

Care Packages for Seekonk Military

Seekonk residents are asked to donate items such as powdered drink mix, cereal, slim jims/jerky, canned chips and cookies, cocoa, tea, and coffee as well as personal hygiene items, pens, pads of paper, envelops, DVD and CD (video/music), books, magazines, phone cards, underwear, T-shirts, socks, sweatshirts and playing cards to be packaged and sent to Seekonk residents serving overseas. Items can be dropped off at the Town Clerk’s office, 100 Peck St., Seekonk.

Chariho Furniture and Mattress Depot Food and Heat Drive

For every nonperishable food item placed in the store’s collections boxes, 1% will be deducted off the price of any purchase (up to a total of 10%). The stores, open daily, will also donate $1 for every donated item to the St. Mary’s St. James Food Pantry and the Wood River Health Services heating assistance program. Chariho Furniture is located at the Junction of 112 & 138 in Richmond and the Mattress Depot is located in the Ocean State Job Lot Plaza on Route 138 in Richmond. Call Ed Smith at 539-9043.

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.

Friends of Friends

This tax-exempt organization is seeking monetary donations to help needy seniors and young families of Seekonk who need help with fuel, medicine and food. Monetary donations can be sent, along with the donors name and address (so the gift can be acknowledged) to Friends of Friends, Community Services Inc., c/o 8 Harriet Court, Seekonk, Mass. 02771. For more information, or to attend a monthly meeting, call (508) 336-8130 or (508) 336-6272 or e-mail krektv@yahoo.com.

Matthew Siravo Memorial Foundation

This non-profit organization seeks monetary donations as well as grocery and pharmacy gift cards for children and families affected by epilepsy. Donations may be mailed to the Matthew Siravo Memorial Foundation, P.O. Box 5300, Wakefield, RI 02880 or dropped off at the Matthew Siravo Epilepsy Resource Center for Children & Families, 10 High Street, Unit A., Wakefield. Call 789-7330 or visit www.MattyFund.org.

Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline’s 6th Annual Coat Drive

New or gently used and clean winter clothing, as well as personal care items such as shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shaving good and personal hygiene products, can be dropped in marked bins at the at the Department of Public Works, Department of Planning & Development, City Hall, Building Inspector’s office, Public Safety Complex and the Providence School Department throughout the winter months. The garments collected will be given to Crossroads Rhode Island and the Homeless People’s Action Committee for distribution. Call 351-4300, ext. 627.

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.

Johnson & Wales University

The 17th annual Thanksgiving Dinner for Those In Need will be held Tuesday, Nov. 25, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Snowden Dining Hall, on Gaebe Commons at Weybosset Street.

Ralph Holden Community Center

The community center, 361 Cowden St., Central Falls, seeks volunteers as well as canned vegetables and desserts for the Thanksgiving Day Dinners which will be served at 11:30 a.m. and at 1 p.m. Call 727-7425.

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.

ANIMALS

Pet Refuge

This no-kill animal shelter, run by the North Kingstown/Exeter Animal Protection League, seeks cash donations, canned and dry pet food, cat litter and toys. Send donations to 500 Stony Lane, North Kingstown, RI 02852. Call 294-1115.

Feinstein money added to your donation: Donations made to any local nonprofit agency through Dec. 31 will be matched by the Feinstein Foundation with its fund of $100,000. If the total raised from the challenge exceeds $100,000, as is expected, a maximum amount of $10,000 will be set for any one participating agency. The rest of the $100,000 will be divided proportionately among all participating agencies. For an organization to receive matching money, it must send proof of its tax-exempt status (or affiliation with a tax-exempt group) with a typed letter bearing the organization’s full name and address. The letter must cite the total amount of money raised from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31. Only money or food value raised from use of the Feinstein challenge should be reported. (Food items should be valued at $1 per item or pound.) Send the letter during the first week of January to: Alan Shawn Feinstein, 37 Alhambra Circle, Cranston, RI 02905.