Goals
- Help 250 families get the furniture they need to start a new home.
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Overview
We are a partnership of non-profit agencies in Spokane who work with homeless people to help them get the furniture and household items they need when they move into their new homes. Rather than these needed items ending up in the local landfill, we pick them up from donors at their homes and transport them to the Warehouse, where they are then redistributed to those who need them at no cost to themselves. These gently used items include beds, dressers, bookshelves, tables and household items.
Goals for our first year are to:
- help 250 families get the furniture they need to start a new home.
- get volunteers to donate 1,200 hours to support operations
- collect and redistribute $88,000 worth of donated items
- pick-up 400 loads of donated furniture
- deliver 1,000 pieces of furniture to people
- have 25 local agencies sign-on as partners
- Locate a permanent warehouse site
You can find more information about us at spokanecommunity warehouse.org
How will the 25K be Used? |
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| Budget Notes: Our next big project for the warehouse is finding a more permanent site, be that renting or building! We are also in the market for a new-to-us truck, and are working on a different way to pay for this. The money we have now has been paying our expenses since last fall : ) | |
| $ 960 | truck fuel for one year |
| $ 5,130 | rent |
| $ 5,000 | 1 full-time Americorps staff person fo one year |
| $ 1,460 | cell phone, internet and web site for one year |
| $ 4,690 | 1 FTE for a manager for the warehouse for one year |
| $ 4,760 | dump run fees |
| $ 3,000 | truck insurance and maintenance for one year |
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