found by: maggie lozier
found at: bus stop, 52nd and Butler St, Lawrenceville
12/01/2007
child's pink mitten, Lawrenceville
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"onecoldhand.com is a project that connects the Pittsburgh community through one unfortunate event - the loss of a glove. The website creates a method for dealing with the conundrum of finding these lost articles. Do you leave it and hope the owner comes back to find it? Do you pick it up? Throw it away? With onecoldhand.com, the abandoned object now becomes a symbol of benevolence and hope."
-----Jennifer Gooch
SEE YOUR GLOVE?
email a picture of the other glove to onecoldhand@gmail.com - we'll reunite them for free!
LOSE A PAIR?
We get pairs all the time. Email a detailed description of your gloves to onecoldhand@gmail.com. Unclaimed pairs will be donated to charity.
MEDIA INQUIRES:
contact Eric Sloss
412-268-5765
cell: 412-480-7246
ecs@andrew.cmu.edu
(I still have stickers, if you'd like them for nostalgia's sake.)
wanna be a finder? stickers available at drop-boxes or by mail!
find a glove, leave a sticker...
One Cold Hand is no longer, but there are plenty of lost and founds, Craigslists, and other means of trying to connect someone with the thing they have lost.
sister sites and fellow finders:
one cold hand London
one cold hand NYC
one cold hand Denver
Unloved Glove
Found Clothing
Paradise of Lost Gloves
This project supported in part by a Seed Award from The Sprout Fund.
Special thanks to interns Missy Dunaway and Wendy Byun.
16 comments:
Great job! Keep it up, may God bless you in your life endeovers:-)
Saw your website on a news article online. Good luck with all this!
Hey love this idea - your site has a real artisitic feel to it!! Me (Colin) & Yoko are DJ's in Nagoya, Japan - we loved your story so introduced it on our program!!
www.radio-i.co.jp Cosmo Style
ps. when you have a room full of gloves you could hold installation exhibition... what do you think??
Hey love this idea - your site has a real artisitic feel to it!! Me (Colin) & Yoko are DJ's in Nagoya, Japan - we loved your story so introduced it on our program!!
www.radio-i.co.jp Cosmo Style
ps. when you have a room full of gloves you could hold installation exhibition... what do you think??
Saw an article in the Minneapolis StarTribune --- great idea.
Hey, I'm missing a black sock. You could launch another site!
Great job!
"I think that you should donate the unclaimed gloves to homeless people. Maybe even just hand them out to the homeless people you see on the street. I know they don't match, but I doubt you care that much when you are outside in the freezing cold with no gloves."----- i also think this is a good idea--
I don't want to sound mean or nasty but ,If after say 30 days or so and no one claims the gloves you could donate them to people that are handecaped and have only one hand. Why should they have to buy a pair of gloves when they can't use them both. I mean if the gloves are in good shape why let them go to waste!! Just a thought.
What a GREAT idea!! You are truly 'paying it forward'
Nita in Far Away Texas
Going off Judenoah's idea maybe after a certain time limit passes the gloves could be donated to a charity or homeless shelter. Not all the gloves' owners will claim them and there are many people out there who need gloves and wouldn't mind if they didn't match.
How many gloves have you reunited with their owners?
how many have found their homes?
I think its a great idea, and spreads some good cheer throughout the holiday season! Keep it up!
I so agree with judenoha. You should donate them to shelters. My mother in law only had 1 leg and she would have to buy a pair of shoes just to use 1 only.
Or maybe you should do a real nice painting and add the glove to it. And auction the funds to charity.
I just can't stop thinking of what that glove touched. Carresed the face of a loved one? Wiped the tears of away of someone? What a story we would hear if they could talk.
this is such a basic for snow.i would give it to a person that is homeless somewhere in a snowey area.if i were u i would donate all gloves to charity in 1 month if no one gets it.at least good luck with this!:p
Jennifer, the world needs many more people like you. Bless you.
Kudos on the fantastic press.
I like Colin and Yoko's idea about the art installation. Would try to put you in touch with art community folks in Boston if you're interested!
May your kind-heartedness come back to you many times.
You might consider donating the gloves to our disabled men and/or women veterans who have lost a hand or an arm on active duty, in the service of our country.
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