Housing and Community Services, Rockville Reports

Rockville’s Generosity Lights Up Holidays for Community’s Most in Need

Rockville’s community warmth and holiday spirit were on display during the 2025 Holiday Drive, with 151 donors donating $42,442.83 in cash to families and people in need throughout November and December.

In-kind, or non-monetary, donations totaled $33,615.

Four-hundred-andfifty-five volunteers donated 1,523 hours of their time. Hundreds of families were helped during the two-month campaign. In November, 549 families and seniors, a total of 1,909 people, were helped with the Holiday Drive’s distribution of food. Families and seniors in need were provided with a $15 grocery store gift card, a box of nonperishable food, a bag of produce and a pie, via an in-person drive-thru pickup at Elwood Smith Community Center or home delivery.

In December, 915 children from 372 families received toys and books for each child 11 and younger, and a $25 Target gift card and books for those aged 12-17. To find out more about Rockville’s annual Holiday Drive and make tax-deductible donations year-round, visit rockvillemd.gov/holidaydrive.

Donation sites and partners: Twinbrook Elementary School; Rockville Swim Center, Glenview Mansion, Twinbrook Community Recreation Center, Thomas Farm Community Center; Rockville Senior Center; Maryvale Elementary School; and Workforce Montgomery.

Donors: Gyuzo Japanese BBQ; Setsail LLC; Robert Frost Middle School students and families; Frederick and Bridget Newton; Aileen Klein; Sandra Yerkes; Michelle and Patricia Evans; Caryl McNeilly; Raymond James and Associates, Inc.; Martin Blumberg; Raymond James Global Acct.; Nancy Taylor; Loren Scherbak; Wegmans Food, Kaye Craft; Stephanie Beckett; Christopher Kern; Bernard L. Horn; Apex Companies, LLC; Nikol Jackson; Amanda Schwinder; Marika Brown; Stan Nelson; Rodney Ludema; James and Virginia Russell; Susan Luger; Howard and Joanne Lewis.

Distinguished donors (in-kind): Robert Frost Middle School students; Toys for Tots; Manna Food Center; Montrose Discovery Preschool; ISS Corporate Solutions; ProMark Partners; Jennifer Dixon; Rockville ASA PenFed Realty; and Ravel and Royale Apartments.

Distinguished service donors: Rockville City Police Department; City of Rockville Department of Public Works; City of Rockville Department of Recreation and Parks; Rockville Volunteer Fire Department; Rosebrook Church; and City of Rockville Department of Housing and Community Development’s Latino Youth Development Program students.