Operation: Care and Comfort, Santa Clara Valley Red Cross

You Can Help:
Donating Money

Our program accepts cash donations to cover the cost of shipping packages overseas.

All donations are tax deductible and will be used specifically for this program.

At over $1 a pound, donations to cover shipping costs is our greatest need.

Please make checks payable to:

ARC
Operation: Care and Comfort

Please mail checks to:

Operation: Care and Comfort
2392 Walden Square
San Jose, CA 95124

Credit card donations are accepted online.

CONTACT INFO
Co-Founders

(Click on the name
to send an email)

Julie DeMaria
TroopSupport
@comcast.net
408.373.8635
. . . . . . . . .

Cookie Crissman
Cookie
@piperitesystems.com
408.590.0731
. . . . . . . . .

Randy Bye
408.577.2192
. . . . . . . . .

2731 North First Street
San Jose CA 95134

Operation: Care and Comfort
Press Releases

May 01, 2007
May is National Military Appreciation Month
Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County Cookie Share Program

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

The Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County's 2007 "Cookie Share" program was a huge success. For the third year in a row, they will be giving Operation: Care and Comfort over 30,000 boxes of cookies to ship to our troops. That's over 2,500 cases of cookies! We need your help! We must raise the funds to pay to ship these cookies overseas - it costs us $1 (one dollar) a pound! Please help by making your tax deductible donation NOW!

Please make checks payable to ARC Operation: Care and Comfort, and mail them to us at:

Operation: Care and Comfort
2392 Walden Square
San Jose, CA 95124

Online donations may also be made, using this link. Please be sure to specify "Operation: Care and Comfort" as the program recipient for your donation.

Thank you for helping us support those who are serving so far from home.

About Operation Care and Comfort
Since April 2003, the all-volunteer Operation: Care and Comfort program, unique to the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, has shipped over 200,000 pounds of care packages for distribution to Marine, Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard personnel deployed in conflict regions. Adopted military units receive care packages monthly, until they return home. For more information on this worthy program, please visit: www.operationcareandcomfort.org.

Contact Information:
Julie DeMaria
(408) 373-8635
troopsupport@comcast.net

You Can Help:
Donating Goods

Any person or organization who would like to help send care and comfort to our service members can participate by donating needed items (see list) to Operation: Care and Comfort.

Most Requested Items:

Food:
Beef jerky, microwavable meals, soups (no pork please)

Hygiene:
Mach III Razor and cartridges, dental supplies.

Entertainment:
DVDs, CDs

Miscellaneous:
AA and AAA Batteries, AT&T Phone Cards

Items may be shipped to, or dropped off at, either of our two main locations below:

Operation: Care and Comfort
2392 Walden Square
San Jose, CA 95124

Hours: Any

American Red Cross
Operation: Care and Comfort
2731 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95134

Office Hours:
9am-5pm, Monday through Friday

Or you can drop off items at any of the locations below:

San Jose

98.5 KFOX Radio 1420 Koll Circle
Suite A
San Jose, CA 95112
CLICK HERE FOR A MAP TO KFOX

Dry Clean Plus
4644 Meridian Ave
San Jose, CA 95124
PH: (408) 267-7471
Hours Mon-Sat 9am-4pm
(Blossom Hill / Cambrian Area)

Contact Lens Center
3590 Moorpark Ave
San Jose, CA 95117
PH: (408) 246-5150
Hours: Any
(Near San Tomas Expwy)

Santa Clara

2385 Glendenning Ave
Santa Clara CA 95050
PH: (408) 590-0731
Hours: Any

Morgan Hill

Allstate Insurance
17200 Monterey St #A
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
Hours: 9-4
(Downtown)

Hollister

Family Pet Care Center
38 East St
Hollister, CA 95023
PH: (831) 637-7387

Redwood City

Peninsula Vet Center
2946 Broadway St
Redwood City, CA 94062
PH: (650) 299-0672
Hours: 8am-4:30pm, M-F