A letter from our volunteer donations coordinator, Michelle Willburn. Please contact Michelle Willburn if you can volunteer, or have questions.
Hello all you wonderful volunteers!
I’m going to preface this by saying that I’m sorry this is so long, but there is a quite a bit of information to get and go over now.
I just started the process of coordinating the furniture donations for the Albuquerque Heading Home program and am excited to work with everyone on this project. Right now donations are coming in one at a time and Robert has been getting help as needed, but they would like to do a big push and get lots of donations in the next couple of weeks. There are still a couple of things that have come through that need to be picked up, so:
If you are available to help pick up a couple of chairs and a dresser on Monday or Tuesday, please let me know.
I’d like to start by getting a clear idea of everyone’s availability as well as what kind of help you are available to do.I’d like to offer people a couple of pick up times to choose from and have divided the days into shifts - morning (9am-12pm), afternoon (1pm-4pm), evening (5pm-7pm).
WAYS TO HELP OUT
- Drivers with a vehicle - Anyone who has a truck, van, trailer or anything that furniture can be moved in. If you can also let me know what kind of vehicle - smaller pick-up, big truck, etc, - so we can get the most appropriate vehicles for each expedition.
- Vehicles only - Something you would be willing to let someone else drive for a few hours.
- Loaders - Anyone who, like me, drives a small vehicle but is willing to help load and unload furniture.
Please let me know when you are available during the next couple of weeks.
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In an effort to conserve gas and emissions, if you wouldn’t mind including your zip code as well, I will try to organize pick ups in an area near you.
We’d also like to have a “Furniture Committee” to help with keeping inventory, qualifying donations or looking at funding for furnishings.
Thank you all again!
Michelle Willburn
If you’re interested, here’s a rough description of how things will be donated to AHH:
1. Furniture will be evaluated to make sure we’re getting good, usable items and not just cleaning out people’s garages and storage units.
2. A pick up will be scheduled.
3. The furniture will be taken to the storage site, where you’ll be meeting with the warehouse manager or another person to unlock the door.
4. Cheers and thanks all around!
5. Each piece will be photographed and cataloged so people can look at furniture items in their apartments. They will also be able to come down to the warehouse and pick out the things from there.