Five Places That Need Used Furniture Donations

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The same-day junk removal experts at Junk.com provide eco-friendly disposal solutions for unwanted old furniture including donation of usable goods. 

Have you determined that your unwanted furniture items are suitable for donation? Maybe you just needed a change to the color scheme of your living area and now have couches, loveseats, and end tables that are in great shape but no longer fit in your current space. Perhaps you are renovating your guest bedroom, and need to make room for a new bedroom set and updated mattress. Or you could be downsizing from a larger home to a smaller space and now have furniture pieces that need to go. Whatever the reason you’ve wound up with unwanted furniture in good condition, the ethical and environmentally responsible course of action is to donate the items to a charity that could make good use of them.

What local charities take furniture donations? Junk.com has 5 examples of community causes likely operating in your neighborhood. Choose a cause close to your heart and offer to donate your unwanted furniture pieces to them.

1. Homeless Shelters and Services

With the affordable housing crisis escalating in the United States, approximately 580,000 people experience homelessness on any given night across the nation. These people are served by about 12,000 homeless shelters, and there could be one in your community that needs your help. 

According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, 317,994 people were able to transition from temporary housing to permanent housing in 2023. Once people are able to secure more permanent housing, they often need free or low-cost furniture pieces like a bed to sleep in, a couch to rest their body, or a dining room table to eat their meals at.

Search for your area’s homeless shelters and ask if they accept donations for themselves or if they have any charity partners that accept donations on their behalf.

2. Domestic Violence Shelters and Services

DomesticShelters.org identifies about 2,800 shelters for victims of domestic violence, often women and children. According to the Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services, one of the greatest needs among abused women is for safe, affordable housing. 

What do safe, affordable houses and apartments need? Free or low-cost furniture in good condition, of course! People transitioning out of temporary domestic violence shelters will need old bedframes, mattresses, couches, tables, and children’s furniture pieces.

Contact a domestic violence shelter in your area and ask if they take furniture donations or if they can connect you to a person in need of free furniture. 

3. College Support Services and Student-Focused Charities 

Students living on their own for the first time will often have limited funds to be able to furnish their own apartments. This is why many colleges and universities, especially those with a very large international student population, will have student-focused community resource groups dedicated to lending a helping hand to their student bodies.

Search for a local college or university in your area and check out their website to see if they have campus resources or local charity partners that supply students and international students with furniture. This could be a great place to donate your old study desks and bookshelves.

4. Veteran-Focused Charities 

Every year, roughly 200,000 service members leave the military and must transition to civilian life in the United States. However, the impact of service leaves a mark. 41% of veterans will require mental health care for complex mental health issues like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans reports that veterans account for about 5% of the homeless population on any given night.

You can help support veterans in your community by donating your gently used furniture to AMVETS, which operates thrift stores across the nation. Donated furniture is sold at low cost to members of the community and the proceeds support services for veterans. 

5. Religious Ministries

With roughly 350,000 separate congregations meeting nationwide, it’s not your imagination that you seem to see a church on every street corner.

In addition to community outreach efforts that provide assistance to people experiencing homelessness, many churches, mosques, and synagogues operate initiatives to provide disaster relief, support the foster care system, and help victims of human trafficking. Your used furniture donation could be just what a family that recently lost everything to a house fire needs, but first you have to get connected to that family. 

One of the largest social service providers in the United States, The Salvation Army, has roots in religious ministry. Today, The Salvation Army operates thrift stores nationwide that  accept donations of used furniture. 

If you attend religious services regularly, you can probably inquire with a ministry leader on staff about the church’s partner charities and ministries. Chances are, there’s a charity connected to your religious institution that works to serve a cause important to your heart.

Call For Junk Removal and Get Eco-Friendly Furniture Disposal

If your furniture items are not in good condition, skip donation. When you donate items that a charity is not able to use or resell then you just make disposal the charity’s problem, which takes away from the time, money, energy, and resources the charity has to serve people in need. Don’t be rude to your favorite local charity, call the junk removal experts at Junk.com to help get rid of your unwanted furniture items instead.

Offload excess clutter like old furniture, appliances, electronics, and more. No need to drag anything to the curb, our junk crews come ready and willing to do all the manual labor. Just show us what you need gone, and we’ll make it disappear onto the Junk.com truck, never to bother your space again! Junk.com will even make certain that if we do salvage a usable item that it gets donated to a local charity. If any materials like textiles, wood, or scrap metal are recyclable, we’ll send those off to get new life as well. Any remaining garbage is responsibly disposed of.

Call (844) 771-6830 or click Book Now to get a junk crew out to give you a no-obligation estimate and get rid of those old furniture pieces as soon as today.