{"id":55389,"date":"2025-11-21T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/55389\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:54:15","slug":"coat-drives-near-cape-coral-104-5-wokv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/55389\/","title":{"rendered":"Coat drives near Cape Coral \u2013 104.5 WOKV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the first time since 2010, the poverty rate in America shot up dramatically<\/a> in 2022, according to data from the Census Bureau. That means more Americans can’t afford basic needs like food, clothing, shelter, and utilities than has been the case in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

But the situation isn’t just affecting Americans living in poverty. United Way uses the term ALICE to refer to the increasing number of people who are asset-limited, income-constrained, and employed but are still not able to afford their basic needs. In 2021, 13% of Americans earned below the federal poverty level but many more, 29%, fell under the ALICE umbrella, according to the grassroots movement United for ALICE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A study published in August 2022 from Brandeis University found that more than 75% of low-income families working full-time cannot cover the cost of basic needs. What’s more, fewer than 1 in 5 low-income Hispanic and Black families in particular are able to afford the costs of a household budget. “Full-time work alone isn’t enough to cover the everyday essentials<\/a> most families need to support themselves,” the study’s lead author, Pamela Joshi, who holds a doctorate in social policy, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for ways to help, particularly as the temperatures drop and the holidays approach, consider cleaning out your closet and donating a coat to those in need. To help point you in the right direction, Stacker<\/a> compiled a list of coat drives near Cape Coral using data from One Warm Coat<\/a>, a nonprofit that provides free coats to children and adults in need across America. Since 1992, they’ve given out more than 7.85 million coats.<\/p>\n

“This is one very small way to take a step forward and do something very tangible,” One Warm Coat CEO Beth Amodio told USA Today<\/a> in October 2023. “It’s impossible to change the world. But it is possible to change one person’s experience, one person at a time.”<\/p>\n

Read on to find out where you can contribute.<\/p>\n

Fort Myers Rescue Mission
– Address: 6900 Mission Ln, Fort Myers, FL 33916<\/p>\n

Port Charlotte Town Center
– Address: 1441 Tamiami Trail Suite 608, Port Charlotte, FL, 33948<\/p>\n

RCMA South Highlands CDC
– Address: 135 Curve St, Lake Placid, FL 33852<\/p>\n

Turning Points
– Address: 701 17th Ave West, Bradenton, FL 34205<\/p>\n

Undersherperds Undershepherds
– Address: Saint Cloud Oaks Dr, Valrico, FL 33594<\/p>\n

Positively U, Incorporated
– Address: 320 1st St S, Winter Haven, FL 33880<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Ministries
– Address: 2002 N Florida Ave, Tampa, FL 33602<\/p>\n

Lighthouse Ministries
– Address: 215 E Magnolia St, Lakeland, FL 33801<\/p>\n

J.Crew – International Plaza
– Address: 2223 North West Shore Boulevard, Suite 248, Tampa, FL 33607<\/p>\n

Church World Service – Tampa
– Address: 3609 W Waters Ave, Tampa, FL 33614<\/p>\n

Westland Mall
– Address: 1675 West 49th Street, Hialeah, FL 33012<\/p>\n

The Salvation Army – Palm Beach County
– Address: 2100 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33409<\/p>\n

Church World Service – Fort Lauderdale
– Address: 3215 NW 10th Terrace Suite 209B, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309<\/p>\n

Church World Service – Palm Beach
– Address: 200 Congress Park Dr, Suite 201, Delray Beach, FL 33445<\/p>\n

Homeless Coalition of Palm Beach County
– Address: 345 S Congress Ave, Delray Beach, FL 33445<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since 2010, the poverty rate in America shot up dramatically in 2022, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3022,3017,209,211,210,684,3023,115,510,349,3024,99,3018,3016,3020,3019,3021],"class_list":["post-55389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-104-5-wokv","tag-america","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-events","tag-jacksonvilles-news","tag-news","tag-north-florida","tag-northeast-florida","tag-northeast-florida-events","tag-politics","tag-ponte-vedra-concert-hall","tag-salute-america","tag-salute-america-tickets","tag-tickets","tag-wokv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}