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BRIEF: Donation Palooza to kick off Spokane Gives Week

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April 8, 2014

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As part of the Spokane Gives week, Catholic Charities’ Spokane Furniture Bank is hosting a Donation Palooza on April 12 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. at 919 E Trent Ave.

The Furniture Bank will kick off the Palooza with as many as 150 volunteers who will help volunteer throughout numerous Catholic Charities programs that day, according to a press release.

The Furniture Bank is a Catholic Charities program that helps creates a vibrant and sustainable community by accepting donated furniture and household items in assistance to low-income and homeless individuals as they transition into stable housing.

Needed Items include:

Gently Used Furniture: dressers, comfort seating, end tables, coffee tables, nightstands, dinette tables & chairs
Kitchenware: flatware, dishes, kitchen utensils, pots and pans
Bed, bath and kitchen linens
Complete bed sets (mattress, box spring, entire frame) in Twin, Full and Queen
Clothing

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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