Rockville’s community warmth and holiday spirit were on display during the 2024 Holiday Drive, with 158 donors donating $32,054 in cash to families and people in need throughout November and December.
In-kind, or non-monetary, donations totaled $20,000.
Four-hundred-and-fifty volunteers donated 1,300 hours of their time. Hundreds of families were helped during the two-month campaign. In November, 629 families and seniors, a total of 2,159 people, were helped with the Holiday Drive’s distribution of food. Families and seniors in need were provided with a $15 grocery store gift card, a box of nonperishable food, a bag of produce and a pie, via an in-person drive-thru pickup at Elwood Smith Community Center or home delivery.
In December, 1,135 children from 454 families received toys and books for each child 11 and younger, and a $25 Target gift card and books for those aged 12-17.
To find out more about Rockville’s annual Holiday Drive and make tax-deductible donations year-round, visit www.rockvillemd.gov/holidaydrive.
Donors: Robert Frost Middle School students; Kaye Craft; Nancy Taylor; Sandra Yerkes; Computer Packages, Inc.; Pearl Chang and Chris Kern; Stephanie Beckett; Carla McNeilly and Robert Williamson; Sara Nash and Thomas Fauquier; Joanne and Howard Lewis; Michele Evans, Cynthia Callahan and John Marshall; Aileen Klein; Susan and William Reinsch; Kristina Sullivan; Mr. and Mrs. Holger and Georgina Roth; Faith United Methodist Church; David Saffold; Marika Brown; Evonne and Rod Ludema; Apex Companies, LLC; Burke Legal, LLC.
Distinguished Donors (In-Kind): Robert Frost Middle School students; Julius West Middle School Junior National Honors Society; Lakewood Elementary School students; White Flint Montessori School students; ISS Corporate Solutions; ProMark Partners; Jennifer Dixon.
Distinguished Service Donors: Rockville City Police Department; City of Rockville Department of Public Works; City of Rockville Department of Recreation and Parks; City of Rockville Department of Housing and Community Development’s Latino Youth Development Program students.