Local Holiday Resources
Search local holiday resources in Pennsylvania with PA 211. Select a resource and enter your zip code to look for programs in your area. To get help from one of our resource navigators with anything from housing to mental health to employment, text your zip code to 898-211 or dial 211.
The Salvation Army Angel Tree Program
The Salvation Army of Western Pennsylvania provides thousands of children and individuals with holiday dinners, winter coats, clothing, toys and gifts. Click the search below to learn more about their holiday resources and assistance:
Programs that provide gifts such as clothing, toys and other items to help individuals and families, older adults, hospital patients and others celebrate any of the annual holidays.
Programs that provide a hot meal in a congregate setting for individuals and families who might otherwise have no opportunity to celebrate the holidays. Also included are programs that deliver meals to people’s homes.
Programs that assist with the distribution of food baskets which usually contain a ham, turkey or other meat and all of the trimmings for a Thanksgiving dinner (or vouchers to purchase these items) and occasionally gifts for children or other family members.
Programs that sponsor “Adopt-A-Family” programs during the holidays which match people who want to provide personalized holiday assistance (usually gifts, an invitation to a holiday meal or party or a food basket) with an older adult, an individual with a disability, a low-income family or others in their community.
Organizations that sponsor programs during any of the holidays which serve as a point of contact for people in the community who wish to make a donation (food, gifts, toys, money or other material goods) that will be used for seasonable charitable purposes. Included are organizations that provide central collection points throughout the area for donated toys and gifts, mall programs that encourage people to purchase a gift on behalf of a child during the Christmas season, programs that collect food items for holiday baskets and other similar initiatives.
Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand coats, gloves, hats, scarves and other winter clothing.
