GivSmart at Your Doorstep Fundraising Program

The Donor's Perspective

GivSmart at Your Doorstep makes donating your reusable clothes and household goods easy and puts you in charge of who receives the proceeds.  Here are just a few of the reasons why this program works for you and the community:

• Virtually all organizations are facing funding challenges.  GivSmart pays the highest rates, and even small amounts can make a big difference.
• You choose which organization will be helped, reflecting your priorities.
• It is free to you and the receiving organization.
• Re-use is the most efficient form of recycling.
• Thrift stores fill a critical need in every community.
• Most of us have a surplus of goods.  Each person in the U.S. generates an average of 67 lbs. of surplus textiles yearly; why not put it to good use?

Why is GivSmart at Your Doorstep a good way for the Faith, School, Nonprofit, Sports League or team, Club or Fraternal Organization of your choice to raise funds?

Fundraising programs are most successful when an organization can focus on their strengths and rely on partners to handle the rest.  In fact, this is the only strategy that will work for many organizations trying to make the most of donated reusable goods.  The potential donations are always waiting: clothes we don't wear and other items we would be happy to donate to an organization we like.  But, even though these items have value, selling them at rummage or garage sale fundraisers is impractical and inefficient for most organizations so a solid, year around fund source is left untapped.

Now there is a program that will make the most of this fundraising opportunity: GivSmart at Your Doorstep.  The community organization draws on its well earned support and asks for donations of reusable goods from you and the community. As a part of the organization's request for support, potential donors are referred to us, GivSmart LLC, and we handle everything that happens in the next step: receiving the pick-up request from you, scheduling and making the pick-up, delivery to the store, bookkeeping and donor tracking.   We pay the organization you choose $0.15 lb for items in the Clothing category and $.05 lb for Household Goods.  Everything is weighed when the donation is picked-up at your location and the organization is credited for the amount.  The final step, sorting and selling, is handled by the largest privately held retail chain of thrift stores in North America, Value Village.  GivSmart LLC is a contracted supplier to Value Village and all donations go into their supply chain.  Here is an amazing fact: Value Village has purchased more than a billion dollars of donated merchandise from community organizations in their 55 years of business!  Imagine the incredible impact those millions of dollars have had in the hands of community organizations over the years.....

You can GivSmart at your doorstep and be confident the organization you choose will receive the highest possible return for your donation while helping the environment and community at the same time.   To learn more about us, please visit our About Us page.  Have questions?  Check out our Frequently Asked Questions page or drop us a note at Contact Us. To learn more about Value Village and their parent company Savers Inc., please follow this link:  Savers.com.