About Us

Fresh Start Furniture Bank - Furnishing Hope

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.  In 2019 our volunteers put in over 16,000 hours of service.

Who we serve:

The people served by Fresh Start have at least one thing in common — they need help during a difficult time.

Fresh Start's customers are individuals and families in transition who need help to rebuild their lives. They include:

  • Women and children escaping abusive domestic situations
  • People coming out of shelters or halfway houses
  • Individuals and families in recovery from physical and mental illness or addiction
  • Veterans
  • Victims of fires, floods or hurricanes
  • Refugees and recent immigrants to the U.S.
  • The working poor

What we do:

Fresh Start collects donations of furniture and home goods from the public and distributes them, for free, to people in need. In order to receive furniture people must obtain a referral from a social service agency. They then have 30 days to come in and work with a personal shopper to help them select their items. We stock just about everything to furnish a household.

 

Some Statistics:

  Agencies Families
Helped
People
Helped
Items
Distributed
2014 75 174 497 2,435
2015 140 215 711 4,115

2016

196 291 820 8,244

2017

265 340 1020 15,184

2018

335 455 1052 17,802

2019

380 454 1412 20,297

2020 (Covid)

427 288 872 15,095

2021 (Covid)

519 390 1062 22,167

 

Calendar of events:

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Governance:

Information about our board of directors, finance, etc.

In the news:

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