GREENFIELD — PV Squared joined the ranks of the many local businesses to contribute clothing and money this year to the Warm the Children charity.

“We find so much pleasure in giving back to the community that nurtures us,” said PV Squared’s Director of Marketing and Outreach Brittany Hathaway. “Particularly in the season of giving, it is fun to not only raise dollars but find ways to repurpose and reuse things to give as well.”

Warm the Children was started by the Greenfield Recorder in 1993. The annual winter donation drive, which runs through the end of December, provided new coats and clothes to about 900 children last year, raising $70,290 to cover expenses.

PV Squared, a worker-owned solar company in Greenfield, finds causes to support every month through its Community Committee. As a group, they choose charities that could benefit from donations of money or goods, or that need volunteer labor. Organizations they have chosen to support include Community Action’s Center for Self-Reliance, the Connecticut River Conservancy’s Source to Sea Cleanup and the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. These charities all have a local focus and touch on environmental or other issues in the community, which can often relate to PV Squared’s mission as a solar company to increase clean energy.

“Our workers are all local,” said Rachel Levey, inside sales and service coordinator with PV Squared. “We are people living in western Mass. We chose organizations that individual people here feel connected to.”

Hathaway said the Community Committee tries to choose organizations where workers feel like their money will have the greatest impact.

As a workplace focused on green energy, many of the employees are interested in the reuse of objects because it is another way individuals can cut down on their environmental impacts. They are especially interested in social media pages centered around reuse, such as the popular “Buy Nothing” Facebook pages where residents can give away items they no longer need. The PV Squared employees were happy to host a coat drive for Warm the Children to get gently used coats that no longer fit into new hands that will use them.

“Without giving to our neighbors directly, this is the perfect way to make sure our things are going to where we want them to go,” Hathaway said.

The PV Squared employees said they are proud to work with Warm the Children because of the charity’s deep roots in the community.

“The thing that feels the best for a lot of us is the thing closest to home,” Levey said. “Staying in our nest of Greenfield and Franklin County, you feel like you are helping the people you interact with on a daily basis.”

Anyone who would like to send tax-deductible donations for Warm the Children may address them to the Greenfield Recorder, Warm the Children Fund, P.O. Box 1367, 14 Hope St., Greenfield, MA 01301.

Reach Bella Levavi at blevavi@recorder.com.