Fort Myers Cape Coral Lee County Operation Open Arms

Contribute

We appreciate the support Operation Open Arms has received. We are exploring possibilities of expansion but are currently only able to support offers from the Southwest Florida area at this time.

Any local business or individual who wishes to contribute to this effort will be listed on this website with the details of their offer to our military men and women.

Please provide details of your offer. We will need your name or point of contact, email address and telephone number. Describe the details of your offer the way you want it to appear on the Operation Open Arms Website.

If you want to include your website address and a logo, we will be happy to include it with your information.

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Some ideas about how you can help

Promise a gift certificate or free meal at a local restaurant. Tell us about it and we'll put it on the list. Be sure to include the restaurant name. When you hear from a visiting service man or woman, you can make arrangement with them.
Networking always gets results. Contact your friends and businesses that you deal with and ask them to participate.
If you have family or friends who are stationed in overseas locations, get the word out to them.
Place the Operation Open Arms link on your website with a link back to us.
Gift certificate at local salon for manicure
Gift certificate at local department store for an item of clothing
Gift certificate at a book store, coffee shop, drugstore.
Buy a 10.00 Gift Cert to McDonalds or any other food establishment and leave it at the Pine Island Chamber of Commerce
Buy a $10.00 phone card and leave it at the Pine Island Chamber of Commerce
Agree to cut, trim, mow the lawn of a U.S. Serviceman during his deployment
Buy a wife or mother a Publix, Winn-Dixie or Albertson's Gift Card and drop it off or mail to the Pine Island Chamber of Commerce.
Ask a group of friends to unite and send a GI to Disney World or Sea World
Invite a GI to your home for a home cooked meal.
Hire a Professional Fishing Guide/or expert to take a Military family fishing, sailing or camping
Help out with laundry, fix leaks in their home, treat them to pest control services
Think outside of the box - we're guessing that everyone has some great ideas that we haven't considered.

Operation Open Arms is a self administering program. It is not an entitlement program. The responsibility of making all hotel, golf, fishing, restaurant, and other reservations rests solely with the individual military participant or their immediate family. The founders of the program work to find contributors and to post the offers on the website - they are not actively involved when it comes to detailed arrangements. Contact information is posted with each offer and military personnel and/or their families are expected to use that information to make their arrangements. The only way to take advantage of the offers is by contacting the contributors directly. Offers by contributors are always subject to availability. For example, professional fishing guides will work around their scheduled charters as best as they can - lodging accommodations are based on availability at the time of the request. Gift certificates are sometimes limited to a fixed number each month.

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