One person clearing a closet fills a bag. Fifty people doing it fills a barrel.
A clothes drive is the simplest fundraiser there is. Nobody has to write a check, buy a ticket, or give up a Saturday. They bring in what they were already going to get rid of, and it turns into funding for training volunteers who fight poverty in some of the world's most vulnerable communities.
We run drives with offices, schools, apartment buildings, worship houses, and neighborhood groups across the Bay Area. We bring the barrel, we collect it when it's full, and we handle everything after that. What you bring is the people.
We deliver a collection barrel to your lobby, break room, or entrance — wherever your people actually walk past. It arrives ready to use.
Call us and we come and empty it. Running a longer drive, or filling faster than expected? We'll swap it out as often as you need.
A flyer and a short guide explaining where the clothes go and what to bring, so you're not fielding the same three questions all week.
There's no cost, no minimum, and no contract. If your drive brings in two bags, that's two bags that stayed out of a landfill.
Get in touch with your location, roughly how many people you expect to reach, and the dates you have in mind. A week or two is plenty for most drives; a month suits a school year or a building.
We drop it off before your start date and give you the flyer to circulate. Put the barrel somewhere unavoidable — beside the elevator, not in a storage room.
Clothing, shoes, bedding, towels, handbags, and accessories. Clean, dry, and good enough that you'd hand it to a friend. The clearer you are, the less sorting anyone has to do later.
One call and we take it away. Everything goes to our Richmond facility, gets sorted, and follows the same path as every other donation we handle.
Americans send 2.4 million pounds of textiles to landfill every hour. A garment worn again is one that never had to be made — and one that never releases methane rotting in a landfill.
We own and operate every barrel and box we place, and donate all net proceeds. The clothes your group collects help train volunteers doing community-based development work around the world.
It costs nobody anything, everyone can take part, and it's visible. For a team, a class, or a building, it's a shared effort with a result you can actually point at.
Tell us where you are and roughly when you'd like to run it, and we'll sort out the rest. If you're not sure whether your group is big enough, get in touch anyway — most of them are.
Start a driveWhether it's hosting a Box, organizing a collection drive, or just dropping off a bag — every pound counts.