Thrive Participant Group Holds Sock Drive

The participants of Thrive are collecting socks through the month of October to give back to our community schools and agencies. Socktober is a nation-wide sock drive that strives to stock shelters with socks before the winter months. Socks are oftentimes the most needed yet least donated items at shelters.

In 2023, Thrive participants collected over 500 pairs of socks and donated to the Keisha Cares program at Galesburg Junior/Senior High School, the Galesburg Downtown Depot & Hope House, the Warming Shelter through the Knox County Housing Authority and Abingdon's Hedding Elementary.

Thrive has participated in Socktober for the past nine years. Since then, our staff (with the help of community members) has donated over 6,000 pairs of socks to local organizations and schools. We receive so much support throughout the year from our community, socktober is our participants way of giving back in return.

Bring NEW pairs to Thrive by October 31st to one of our locations:

Thrive @ the Hub, 143 E Main St Galesburg, IL 61401

Thrive @ Galesburg, 2015 Windish Drive Galesburg, IL 61401

Thrive @ Abingdon, 405 S. Western Avenue, Abingdon, IL 61410

For more information, please contact Sally Fischell at 309-344-2600 ext. 1216 or sfischell@thrivegalesburg.org