Our mission | Fresh Start Furniture Bank is a volunteer run charity which helps restore hope, dignity, and stability in our community by recycling donated furniture and housewares, for free, to people in need. Our secondary goal is to keep these items out of the waste stream. |
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Fresh Start Furniture Bank
Ways to help |
Furniture RepairPerform high-quality repairs on furniture that needs a little help.SorterProcess incoming donations. Sort donated linens and home-goods.TranslatorAssist customers with translation issues. Our major needs are Spanish and Portuguese.TransportationPick up donations on Saturday mornings and using our 16' box truck. Need to be able lift 50 pounds or more.In-store Furniture MoverAssist customers and donors with loading/unloading their vehicles. Help stage items in the store. Needed every day that the store is open.Store AssistantAct as a personal shopper for clients. Handle incoming donations. Check clients in. Pack client home-goods.Furniture Bank donations
Fresh Start has re-vamped their programs to lower the number of people that are simultaneously needed and to do our best to provide social distancing. However, due to our need to accept donations of furniture and home-goods from the public, and distribute them to people in need, we need volunteers. Our primary need right now… See full description
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About us | Had Covid-19 not occurred, this year we were expecting to furnish 650 households with 25,000 pieces of furniture and home goods. We have re-opened, but are running at reduced capacity due to the need to keep everyone socially distanced. We are volunteer based and last year our 160+ volunteers put in almost 18,000 hours of time. |
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