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Donation Drops
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2009 Donation Locations
Operation Turkey 2009
We have two locations for donations this year. We ask that you hold onto the donations until the week of Thanksgiving. This way we can handle all of the donations at once.
NORTH LOCATION:
Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill
6901 N. IH-35
Austin, TX 78752
512-454-2247
SOUTH/DOWNTOWN LOCATION:
Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill
214 E. 6th St.
Austin, TX 78701
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News
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Thank you
Good afternoon,
Happy Thanksgiving! Today was a remarkable day for me. It was the first opportunity to open the new Bikinis on 6th Street to the Operation Turkey volunteers. It may seem common for a restaurant to open its doors and invite an organization like Operation Turkey to operate from its facility, but it is not. i spent half the year looking for a new restaurant in the downtown area...full story |
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How to Help
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Austin, Texas residents
Want to help? Here's how:
We need volunteers to help cook food, sort donations, package the food in to-go containers and people to deliver the food. Please sign up as a volunteer in the upper right-hand corner of the website where it says "Newsletter & Volunteers." We will send you details on email.
Then show up at one the following locations at 9:30 AM on Thanksgiving morning:
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What is OT
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Helping Our Communities
 Operation Turkey was designed in 2000 to promote community outreach during the Thanksgiving holiday. Every resident of the United States can celebrate Thanksgiving. There are no racial, ethnic or gender restrictions or requirements. Operation Turkey organizes community distributions of food, clothes and toiletries to the homeless and less-fortunate around the country.
Each year, millions of ...full story |
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Pics
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Operation Turkey 2008
 Operation Turkey was hosted in Austin this year by Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill in North Austin and the Soup Peddler in South Austin. We had over 600 volunteers show up in North Austin and about the same in South Austin. Production started at 9:00 AM and by 11:30 AM we were filling our last meal. The volunteers had a great time and enjoyed one of the smoothest Operation Turkeys ever!
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How it Works
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Preparing meals is easy
 Preparing meals is very easy. Simply place the food out on counters or on tables and have your team place items from each bowl/plate in their container.
It is easy to work as a team and it is a lot of fun. For added personalization, use a marker to write a greeting on top of the container. This connects everyone who participated to the delivery - even if they cannot go with you.
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About OT
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It Started With One
 Operation Turkey was started on Thanksgiving in 2000. It wasn't called Operation Turkey back then. It was a guy plating up extra food after eating a Thanksgiving meal at a friend's house and handing it out to a homeless person.
- That year, I drove to downtown Austin on my way home and handed out the plate of food to a homeless man in a wheelchair on 6th street. He couldn't say thank y...full story
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501(c)3 Donations
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Operation Turkey is a non-profit
Thank you for your interest in donating to Operation Turkey. We appreciate your help and are able to provide you with tax advantages for your donations.
Operation Turkey can accept tax-deductible donations through the Austin Community Foundation (Tax ID: 741934031). The Austin Community Foundation administers the Operation Turkey Fund.
To donate to the Operation Turkey Fund, please make ...full story |
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Welcome to Operation Turkey
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DONATE TO
OPERATION TURKEY
Operation Turkey delivers Thanksgiving dinners to the homeless and less fortunate people in our communities.
We need your help - from food donations, preparation and delivery - we have a need for volunteers.
Please click the link in the upper right hand corner to become a volunteer.
Here are some of the cities that wonderful people will be handing out dinners:
Austin, TX
Beaumont, TX
Dallas, TX
Grass Valley, NV
Houston, TX
Manassas, VA
New Orleans, LA
Newport Beach, CA
Newport News, VA
Pottstown, PA
Rapid City, SD
Round Rock, TX
San Antonio, TX
San Marcos, TX
Temple, TX
Waco, TX
Woodbridge, VA
Thank you to SurfMySite, Inc. ( www.surfmysite.com ) for sponsoring our website each year.
Operation Turkey is a non-profit organization that accepts donations that are 100% used to purchase food for the homeless at Thanksgiving.
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