Storage Area Needed For Donated Items

The Interfaith Hospitality Network depends heavily on volunteers and donations, and is now asking for a little more help from the community.

The network of churches houses homeless families while family members look for work and permanent housing. The network is constantly offered donations of furniture and clothing for its clients, said director T.J. Sather, but has nowhere to keep them.

She’s hoping individuals or businesses will donate a storage rental unit, or pay part of the cost for the network to rent one, to store the donated items.

Finding space can be a headache. Sather and others now store things at home until they’re needed.

“Putting it in 10 different garages somewhere is not very efficient,” she said.

Recently, a downtown department store offered to donate 30 boxes of returned items that could no longer be sold as new. The boxes contain clothing, bedding and pots and pans, and Sather would love to accept them. But she’s at a loss for a place to put them.

“The offers are there,” said Sather. “This town can be quite generous.”

What The Interfaith Hospitality Network needs now is a place to store that generosity.

Anyone who can help with Sather’s request is asked to call the network at 747-5487.