Women, next time you donate your unwanted clothes, consider battered women's shelters instead of goodwill.
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@ADDiane
Household goods, diapers, and furniture too. Many charities that are coalitions of churches in many cases, help battered women and their children start over, and they need everything from food to a sofa to kids’ beds and so on.
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@ADDiane
Phones too! Wipe your data clean and donate your old phones (even old flip phones) to women's shelters. They install 911 and free emergency numbers for women in dangerous situations.
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@ADDiane
I donate clothes to the local homeless shelter about once a year, when I clean out my closets. But several times a year, the local Kroger has bags of personal items bagged up/presold for homeless/Needy. You carry the bag to the register, pay for it-they donate it. Too easy.
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@dreamthievin
Please call to see if they accept them first. I work at one and we don’t. We work with other agencies who do specifically clothing - many times people drop stuff off and it gets thrown out due to storage and other issues.
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@MollyJongFast
It’s a good thought, but I volunteered for a woman’s shelter through my place of employment and asked them about donating my old clothes and they said they can’t accept them. They only take new and unused items.
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@MollyJongFast
I would advise checking websites first to see what they'll accept
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@ADDiane
Please call ahead to make sure the shelter has space to hold physical donations and staff to manage them. Unbidden inkind donations of goods can be a burden on many nonprofits.
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@ADDiane
@BJohnsonCanada
I take clothes, toiletries, baby goods to the women’s shelter every time I come home from a work trip. I stay in hotels 50 weeks a year and collect the toiletries just for them.
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@ADDiane
Community Aid is another great foundation to donate to. Monies go back into your own community.
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@ADDiane
Or skip Goodwill altogether based on its track record of funneling money to top executives.
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