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Dear Kind Community Member,
Thank you for your generosity in offering to help our community members affected by the Marshall and Middlefork Fires. You did this by offering to donate money, clothing, housing, transportation services, animal care services, food, time and so much more. We have received nearly 2,500 unique donation offers, and this outpouring of kindness from our community is humbling, heartwarming and helpful.
Even if your offer hasn’t been utilized it has been seen, organized and made available to the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Responders. If a demonstrated need for these donations becomes available OEM staff will reach out to you. We’ve already utilized several donations and considering this is a long road to recovery, some of your donations may be useful in the weeks to come.
Please visit the Boulder OEM webpage (https://www.boulderoem.com/), and the Disaster Assistance Center Webpage (https://www.bouldercounty.org/disasters/wildfires/marshall/) for the most up to date information on the Marshall Fire Response and Recovery efforts.
If your offer is not utilized immediately, please know that there are other ways to help those in need.
DONATION CENTER NOW ACCEPTING DONATIONS OF PHYSICAL GOODS
The Boulder OEM has established a drop off site for clothing, bedding and select household goods.
Flatirons Crossing Mall, former Nordstrom’s location between Macy’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods:
21 W Flatiron Crossing Drive, Broomfield CO.
Donations: Use center/north entrance.
Donation drop off: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily.
For Information on current needs or donations that are not accepted please visit this website, Marshall Fire Donations and Resource Center. (https://www.boulderoem.com/marshall-fire-donations-and-resource-center/)
Donations not accepted include:
- Baby/Child equipment: Cribs & Car Seats cannot be accepted
- No Used Helmets
- No projectile releasing items: guns of any type and size, (we do not have the ability to do background checks on guns), bow and arrows
- No furniture
- No home processed canned foods
- All food packages must come unopened
- No used underwear—must come in the original packaged unopened
- No prescription medication, except unopened/unexpired over-the-counter items
- Personal Hygiene items: All items must have the manufacturer's seal intact
- No used clothing, bedding or towels
- No used pots and pans
For cash donations, the Boulder OEM has set up a vetted donation channel here: www.coloradogives.org.
In addition, Sister Carmen Community Center has a resource table set up at the OEM’s Disaster Assistance Center (DAC) to distribute donations directly to those displaced during the fire. The Sister Carmen Community Center is currently accepting:
- Cash: please donate online at sistercarmen.org
- Gift Cards: in $50+ increments to Walmart, Target, Costco and local area restaurants.
*Bulk deliveries (100 or more) of gift cards is preferred in order to reduce traffic at the receiving site and maximize response efficiencies.
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Get involved with several other volunteer organizations in the community, including but not limited to:
Red Cross (https://www.redcross.org/)
Sister Carmen Community Center (https://sistercarmen.org/)
City Of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (https://bouldercolorado.gov/services/volunteer-osmp)
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless (https://bouldershelter.org/)
Wildlands Restoration Volunteers (https://www.wlrv.org/)
Individual offers of housing, although very generous, cannot be coordinated through Boulder County emergency response due to legal and liability concerns. If you or someone you know has been displaced by the fires, please visit the Boulder OEM Disaster Assistance Center. Thistle Communities is also waiving income restrictions for housing.
For additional information on the Marshall and Middle Fork fires, please visit www.BoulderOEM.com.
Thank you for your generosity and willingness to help our community recover from this tragedy. It is kindness like this that makes the world better, especially through difficult circumstances.
With Gratitude,
The Office of Emergency Management Volunteer and Donations Management Team
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