In August, 2008, the Central Dallas Ministries Thrift store opened for business with three objectives:
(1) generate income to sustain CDM’s many programs,
(2) provide quality, low-cost merchandise to our neighbors, and
(3) create job opportunities for our neighbors.
Over the past 7 months we have begun to meet all three of these objectives.
Even at this early stage, the store is generating enough revenue to meet its operating expenses, while employing six of our neighbors and providing both low cost goods for sale and even free goods to neighbors in need (providing dishes for an empty kitchen or clothing for a family who has lost everything in a fire).
Our challenge these days is to continue to build up our donation stream so that we are able to recycle the goods that some families no longer need and provide them to our neighbors at low or no cost.
Furniture, household goods, toys, sporting goods, clothing – even cars, motorcycles and boats – are all resold to generate revenue that allows us to provide food in the pantry, medicine in the clinic and tutors for the children, to name just a few aspects of our efforts in the inner city.
If you have items you would like to donate you can drop off smaller items at the Thrift Store (located at the southeast corner of Washington and Live Oak near Baylor University Medical Center) or call us to pick up bigger items.
For a larger impact, please consider partnering with us to organize a donation drive at your church/work site or in your neighborhood. There are a myriad of ways this has been done and if you have the inclination we can fully support
you in this effort.
To help, to ask questions, or just know more about this effort, please call Theresa Cissell at 214-823-8710 ext 151 or email us at donations@centraldallasministries.org.
If you have been involved, please post a report on your experience!
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(1) generate income to sustain CDM’s many programs,
(2) provide quality, low-cost merchandise to our neighbors, and
(3) create job opportunities for our neighbors.
Over the past 7 months we have begun to meet all three of these objectives.
Even at this early stage, the store is generating enough revenue to meet its operating expenses, while employing six of our neighbors and providing both low cost goods for sale and even free goods to neighbors in need (providing dishes for an empty kitchen or clothing for a family who has lost everything in a fire).
Our challenge these days is to continue to build up our donation stream so that we are able to recycle the goods that some families no longer need and provide them to our neighbors at low or no cost.
Furniture, household goods, toys, sporting goods, clothing – even cars, motorcycles and boats – are all resold to generate revenue that allows us to provide food in the pantry, medicine in the clinic and tutors for the children, to name just a few aspects of our efforts in the inner city.If you have items you would like to donate you can drop off smaller items at the Thrift Store (located at the southeast corner of Washington and Live Oak near Baylor University Medical Center) or call us to pick up bigger items.
For a larger impact, please consider partnering with us to organize a donation drive at your church/work site or in your neighborhood. There are a myriad of ways this has been done and if you have the inclination we can fully support
you in this effort.To help, to ask questions, or just know more about this effort, please call Theresa Cissell at 214-823-8710 ext 151 or email us at donations@centraldallasministries.org.
If you have been involved, please post a report on your experience!
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That's just great, Larry - if you sell second hand stuff people don't have an incentive to buy new things that boost our struggling economy. And if you give it away you're just incentivizing being poor and must be anti-work. What's next - are you just going to give away food?! House people who don't have homes?! It all sounds suspiciously socialistic.
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Thanks!:)))))))
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