Making Material Donations
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul welcomes your donations of household goods, clothing, and personal items and can find ways to help those in need with a wide range of your in-kind donations.
Please drop off your donations at
a retail store near you, or call one of the numbers listed to arrange a pick-up of your donations.
A few things to remember:
We would not be able to run out successful retail stores and give back to the community without your generous contributions. However, we would like to encourage responsbile donations!
Therefore, we ask that the following guidelines are followed:
- All donations are to be dropped off at one of our retail locations
- Please call ahead with all donation inquiries. We are, on occasion, over capacity and cannot accept further donations.
- Please do not drop off items outside our hours of operation
- Please do your best to bag clothing seperately from other donations
- Make is safe for all when you donate, watch for items that are sharp or could break. Safety is important for everyone.
- We do not accept mattresses
Donations we look forward to receiving
- Clothes: shoes, pants, shirts, coats, blouses, belts, jeans, hats, dresses, socks, etc. in good condition. No rips, stains, or severe wear marks please.
- Household items: dishes, pans, pots, cutlery, small appliances in working condition. We cannot sell appliances that need severe cleaning, are not working, or are missing cords and parts
- Furniture: that is not broken and needing repairs and has no tears, stains, or wear marks. We cannot sell bookcases without shelves, couches that sag, or furniture that is severely damaged.
It is the leftover garage sale items we DO have a problem with. If you cannot sell them or give them away when you have your sale, remember that we will have the same problem!
Clothing we can help you recycle no problem. Most other items we can use, however, please be aware and use your judgment that some items we cannot, even if they are freely given to us.
Did you know that even with the Society's recycling program for metals, plastics, paper and clothing (among other things) the disposal costs for unusable donated items to Saint Vincent de Paul
exceeds $30,000 per year?