I made a huge mistake last year when I waited until the beginning of April to introduce my campaign to match lost gloves and deliver them to the gloveless. What I am now calling “No Glove Left Behind” is now running at full speed when it’s most needed, during the harsh months of winter. I’m writing to enlist your help.
Whenever I walk the streets of New York City I see lost and abandoned gloves, at least one every time I walk our dog, and sometimes more. Below are images of five gloves that I have “rescued” in the past three days.
Let me ask you: How many times have you, during a walk around your city, come across a single glove or mitten, lying on the sidewalk….and kept on walking? That is what I used to do, until last March, when I enlisted my wife and a couple of neighbors to search for matches.
Last year we donated several dozen matching pairs to a nearby place of worship. However, in our apartment right now we have about 75 unmatched gloves, waiting for YOU to find and send us the match!
As you can see below, sometimes the lost gloves almost match, but we strive for perfection.
No Glove Left Behind has just three rules, but they are important:
1) Please carefully clean the glove before sending it to “No Glove Left Behind,” 1148 Fifth Avenue, Apartment 9D, New York, NY 10128.
2) Check the INSIDE of the glove very, very carefully. Last year one generous person did not and inadvertently sent a glove that a mouse was using as its winter home. The mouse and babies died in transit, ending their lives, ruining the glove, and upsetting us, the doorman, and the postman!
3) Please do NOT send money to help support our effort. While NGLB is not yet a 501(C)3 non-profit organization, the income from my trust fund is more than adequate to support it. As only my close friends have been aware until now, I am the sole surviving nephew of Edward R. Murrow and thus a major beneficiary of the legendary newsman’s Trust. When I realized that I wanted to be a journalist, I changed the spelling of my last name because I wanted to be judged on who I was and what I did, and not on a family connection.
Thank you, and bless you…..
The Merrow Report 
John…Yes indeed…that is yet another great idea!
Another idea is to match shelters with various fitness places. You can’t imagine the high quality workout sweats, socks, gloves, scarves, jackets, etc that go unclaimed. I work with a project that gathers wonderful clothing from ski slopes! I do a pickup every two weeks. I often picture this scenario. Teen comes home. Mom says, “Honey where are the new bibs we got you for Christmas?” Teen responds, “I dono. I had them on when I was skiing.” Go figure! But the homeless really appreciate the warm clothing in a Minnesota winter of sub-zero weather.
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