FUNDrive Clothing Donation Drive!

Fundraising for the PTO has been tough this year, given the restrictions with COVID, but we are kicking off a socially-distanced and environmentally friendly fundraiser to close out the last few weeks of school and we need your help!

Did you know that 26 billion pounds of clothing and textiles pile up in landfills each year?  95% of which could have been re-worn or repurposed?  Or that it takes 1,800 gallons of water to make just one new pair of jeans?

This Earth Month, there are lots of things you can do to reduce your environmental footprint, like buy only thrifted items for the month or remember your reusable bags.  But because the fashion industry is one of the biggest polluters in the world, hosting this FUNDrive® can make a big impact on our planet.

By hosting a FUNDrive®, we are not only helping to keep 700 million pounds of usable items out of landfills every year, but we are raising money for the Lincoln-Eliot PTO!  And because we don’t have to sell anything door to door, like wrapping paper or chocolate bars, our FUNDrive® earns our PTO money without adding waste to landfills in the future.  The wins just keep coming!

Start by asking friends and family if they can help out by donating any clothing or household items they no longer use.  Savers West Roxbury location will weigh those items on our drop-off dates, pay our PTO by the pound of donations collected, and give others the chance to love your gently used stuff.

So if we set a fundraising goal of $1,000 we would only have to collect approximately 220 lawn-sized trash bags of donations in order to reach that goal!

What better time to tackle your Spring cleaning and kick-off this environmentally friendly fundraiser than Earth Month!

Ready to reduce, reuse, and raise money!

Details:

Savers FUNDrive® Clothing Drive

Dates:

Donation collection begins NOW thru May 29th (one week before the drop-off date at Savers – tentatively scheduled for Saturday, June 5th).

Approved Items for Donation:

  • Gently used clothing and footwear of all sizes (babies thru adult), including socks, bathing suits, undershirts and bras. Doesn’t have to be seasonal, they are accepting winter clothes too.

  • Jewelry & accessories (belts, purses, wallets, bags, fanny packs, ties, scarves, hats, gloves, etc)

  • Bed and bath items: linens, curtains, pillows, towels, tablecloths, blankets, sheets

Items NOT accepted:

  • stuffed animals

  • furniture

  • appliances

  • books, magazines or media (CDs, DVDs, etc)

  • sports equipment

Collection location to gather donations: TBD, more details on scheduling a pick-up or drop-off location to follow in future newsletters.  Please collect in lawn-sized or kitchen-sized trash bags at home for now.

What we need:

  • Volunteers – interested in helping organize this FUNDrive®, do donation pick-ups or drop-offs?  Organizing a team?  Helping to get the word out thru social media or advertising (promo materials will be provided)?  Contact Ronda Morra: 781-589-7226 or rbmorra@gmail.com

  • Ideas: should we make this a competition with teams divided by grade?  Ice cream party for the winning grade?  Or something to make it competitive and involve the kids?  We’d love to hear everyone’s ideas!

  • Storage location(s) for bags of donations until the drop-off can be made on June 5th.  Do you have a garage or shed or basement/spare room that could be used as a donation collection point?  Let us know!

  • A U-Haul or other van-sized moving truck for a few hours on the morning of June 5th to drop the donations at Savers in West Roxbury.  Does anyone in our school community have a connection here that could get us the use of a truck donated for a few hours?

  • Donations of the approved items in kitchen-sized garbage bags or lawn-sized garbage bags ONLY

Stay tuned for more details as our plans come together, but start collecting items in your own home or ask neighbors, friends and relatives for donated items now!