Many college and university campuses also have food pantries for their more food-insecure students. Also a great option, now and all year round.

Local businesses will also sometimes do "angel trees" or just gift trees, where you can take a name and buy a gift for a kiddo. Coat drives as well.

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race."

- Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor