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BRIEF: Donation Palooza to kick off Spokane Gives Week

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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
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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