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FREE pickup is available for donated furniture within a 16-mile radius for residential donations; within 3 hrs for commercial pickups.

82% of our clients make less than $10k annually and 98% make less than $20k.

62% of donation value to the Furniture Bank is furniture donations, and 38% is financial donations.

$240 per family provides 12-14 pieces of furniture for a family.

The Furniture Bank staff picks up furniture within 1-2 weeks of your call. Families receive 94-95% of the items they need.

Top Reasons our Clients Need Furniture

  1. Previously Homeless
  2. Destitute while raising children
  3. Unemployment
  4. Mental Disability
  5. Refugee/Immigrant
  6. Physical Disability

The Furniture Bank has more than 40 year-round Referring Agencies.

The Furniture Bank helped 3,575 families in 2010; this was 10,729 individuals; 5,885 were children.

The Furniture Bank distributed 45,747 pieces of furniture to families in need in 2010.

The Furniture Bank distributed an average of 12.7 pieces of furniture per family in 2010. This filled 94% of their "core" furniture needs, and 88% overall.

5 ways to volunteer: Client Showroom, Office Assistance, Woodshop, Special Events, and Spread the Word to your friends and family to call the Furniture Bank.

The Furniture Bank receives $$ and In Kind Donations from individuals, corporations, referring agency service income, grants, and city and county government.

Donations to the Furniture Bank in calendar 2010: 45,419 furniture items were picked up for free from residences & commercial organizations.

Donations to the Furniture Bank in calendar 2010: 7,813 central Ohio residents donated 30,467 pieces of furniture.

Donations to the Furniture Bank in calendar 2010: Commercial and institutional furniture pickups served 1,323 families.

During calendar 2010, FB kept 32,000 cubic yards of furniture from reaching landfills - that is 305 semi trailers. SWACO: 1.5 weeks of landfill space.

The annual Big Hearts Gala sponsored by Big Lots raised more than $525,000 in 2010.

Each furniture auction raises $40-45k and two auctions are held annually, to raise money to cover the costs of Free Pickup.

Top suburbs donating furniture: Worthington, Upper Arlington, Westerville, Dublin and Bexley. Issuing a challenge to all suburbs

Calendar 2010: 100% of donor dollars went to program expenses with fundraising and administrative expenses paid by fees for service and earned income.