CLEVELAND - Newsradio WTAM 1100 & 106.9 FM and The Cleveland Guardians are teaming up to host a special “Stuff the Truck” donation drive Friday, July 19 to benefit Providence House, a non-profit organization focused on family preservation and supporting children and families through crisis.
The Stuff the Truck event will take place from 5:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. in Gateway Plaza between Progressive Field and Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse where WTAM will be broadcasting live with Wills & Snyder, Jimmy Malone and Bloomdaddy throughout the day. A truck donated by Moving Ahead Services will be on-site for local companies and members of the community to drop off essential needs items for the children and families of Providence House. The list of items can be found HERE!
Between 5:00 AM and 3:00 PM, donations can be driven up to the truck in Gateway Plaza - but this year, the route to enter Gateway Plaza has changed! Donors will enter from the corner of Huron Road and East 6th Street, and turn on East 6th Street to get to the truck. After we help them unload their donation, they’ll exit the plaza onto Ontario Street.
From 3:00 to 7:00 PM, Gateway Plaza will be closed to vehicular traffic, but donations can be dropped off to volunteers on foot - so anyone headed to the Guardians game can participate on their way into Progressive Field. We’ll be set up right outside the Left Field District Gate!
If you can’t make it to the event, you can still make a difference for the children of Providence House! The Joan P. Wenk Charitable Fund has generously committed to a dollar-for-dollar match of up to $10,000 in monetary donations for Stuff the Truck! Community members can make a monetary gift by texting stuffthetruck (no spaces) to 41444, clicking HERE, or by mailing a check made out to Providence House to 2050 West 32nd Street, Cleveland, OH 44113 (donors should write Stuff the Truck in the note section or on the envelope).
This year’s event is more important than ever as we prepare to open our new Providence House East Campus Crisis Nursery in Buckeye-Shaker to serve 250 more children who need us each year.