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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 745258" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Easter Seals, for disabled children, will pick up donations.</p><p></p><p>There are also many local charity stores that truly donate almost all its money to worthy causes. We had Bethesda Lutheran who ran a home for people with brain disorders, mainly tumors I think. </p><p></p><p>Goodwill uses your donations only if they feel they are good enough to sell, and dont.put them out if they dont feel it the item will sell. Also they dont give the less quality stuff to needy charities, and their CEOs make a fortune. Some GWs hire a few disabled workers who make peacemail pennies. In our Goodwell they only hired a handful of disabled people who got full pay but did menial stuff for three hours every other week. 99 percent of the workers had no disabilities at all. They were for making money. For those in power. The peons made a low wage. I could go on and on but was not impressed by the Goodwill as an organazation with helping the needy.</p><p></p><p>They throw out all glass, dishes and other like donations that dont sell rather than donate. As far as I saw they do nothing for the community. i prefer when everything goes somewhere.</p><p></p><p> In one small oeganization I volunteered at, they gave free clothes. The people could pick out the clothing. But some donors broughtbstuff nobody wanted or were too strange for the poor to wear... They wanted at least to fit in. Most would pick out and wear even torn jeans, but not bright yellow pants! So we did have leftovers.</p><p></p><p>All of the unchosen clothing were sent to indigent countries overseas. Nothing was wasted unless it was filthy. I loved that place. Some guys would pick up our bags and ship them to places where people are thrillef to wear anything!</p><p></p><p>Now I wont bash anyone if they use Goodwill. Guiltily we sometimes give them bigger items because its the easiest place to donate. They make donating VERY easy ans sometimes we are not willing to haul a desk to a less convenient location. But we try not to give them much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 745258, member: 1550"] Easter Seals, for disabled children, will pick up donations. There are also many local charity stores that truly donate almost all its money to worthy causes. We had Bethesda Lutheran who ran a home for people with brain disorders, mainly tumors I think. Goodwill uses your donations only if they feel they are good enough to sell, and dont.put them out if they dont feel it the item will sell. Also they dont give the less quality stuff to needy charities, and their CEOs make a fortune. Some GWs hire a few disabled workers who make peacemail pennies. In our Goodwell they only hired a handful of disabled people who got full pay but did menial stuff for three hours every other week. 99 percent of the workers had no disabilities at all. They were for making money. For those in power. The peons made a low wage. I could go on and on but was not impressed by the Goodwill as an organazation with helping the needy. They throw out all glass, dishes and other like donations that dont sell rather than donate. As far as I saw they do nothing for the community. i prefer when everything goes somewhere. In one small oeganization I volunteered at, they gave free clothes. The people could pick out the clothing. But some donors broughtbstuff nobody wanted or were too strange for the poor to wear... They wanted at least to fit in. Most would pick out and wear even torn jeans, but not bright yellow pants! So we did have leftovers. All of the unchosen clothing were sent to indigent countries overseas. Nothing was wasted unless it was filthy. I loved that place. Some guys would pick up our bags and ship them to places where people are thrillef to wear anything! Now I wont bash anyone if they use Goodwill. Guiltily we sometimes give them bigger items because its the easiest place to donate. They make donating VERY easy ans sometimes we are not willing to haul a desk to a less convenient location. But we try not to give them much. [/QUOTE]
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