Your
Donations At Work:
Your donations of clothing and household items
stay in your community and finance employment,
education
and job-training programs. Your
contributions may be tax-deductible
under IRS regulations. See your tax preparer
for more information.
You Support Our Mission by:
Donating
your gently used clothing and housewares to Goodwill
stores and drop-off sites
Contributing
money to support our programs and services
What can be donated. Your donation plays a pivotal
role in our ability to fulfill the Goodwill mission. We
collect your charitable contributions of clothing, household
goods, automobiles and boats, then sell them in our eight
retail stores. The income generated by our stores is channeled
into job-training and employment programs. More than 80
percent of Goodwill's total revenue is directed into vocational
rehabilitation services that benefit your community. We
accept:
Clothing, shoes, boots
Hats, gloves, scarves
Jewelry
Books, records, video tapes, CDs
Housewares including dishes, glassware, lamps,
and small appliances
Collectibles and antiques
Linens, blankets, curtains
TVs, stereos, VCRs, etc.
Furniture, including dressers, tables, sofas,
bed frames, mattresses, and box springs
What may not be donated.
We appreciate your thinking of us but we are unable to accept the
following items:
No household chemical products: pesticides, paint, paint thinner,
drain cleaner, aerosols and other environmentally unfriendly
waste products
No automotive hazardous waste: tires, lead-acid batteries,
gasoline, oils, antifreeze, etc.
No large appliances: refrigerators, freezers, stoves, washer/dryers,
air conditioners, dehumidifiers, furnaces, water heaters, outdated
computers, Freon-based appliances
No sofa beds or waterbeds
No personal care items, including shampoos, shavers, hairsprays,
curling irons, etc.
No plumbing fixtures, doors, windows, building materials, etc.
No weapons, including guns, bows and arrows, ammunition, hunting
knives, etc.
No pianos
or organs.
Our
donation center attendants may decline a donation
if, in their judgment, it is not clean or in saleable
condition .
It's hard to say "no thank you" to
a donation when our operational funds are realized
through the sale
of donated materials, but sometimes
it's for the best. Here are some reasons we sometimes
decline a donation:
It cannot be
used in our employment and skills training programs.
The item
cannot be recycled, may contain hazardous
waste, may create a safety hazard, or may have been
recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Something is in such poor condition
it cannot be sold in our retail stores.
It may be extremely
difficult to transport, not only for us, but also
for our customers.
