Return-Path: Received: from merlot.nectar.cs.cmu.edu by K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa18559; 25 Feb 92 18:56:26 EST Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 18:52:40 EST From: Ellen.Siegel@MERLOT.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU To: bovik@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Goodwill (or equivalent) Drop-off Locations Thanks to all who replied for their information. Here's a brief summary of the replies: If you can't find a Goodwill, I know the Jubilee soup kitchen down 5th ave in the Hill can usually use old clothes to hand out to people. The Vietnam Veterans of America will pick up clothing from your house/apt/whatever. You just schedule a pickup day and put your stuff out by 8am (i.e. the night before). They leave a IRS donation form for you to fill in the blanks for tax purposes. There's a drop-box for the St. Vincent DePaul Society in the school parking lot across Craig Street from Saint Paul Cathedral. The Goodwill in East Liberty (near Keystone plumbing -- about 3-4 blocks from the Shadyside "Shakespeare Street" Giant Eagle) has a drop off spot, although they discourage dropping things off when they're closed. In the past, I have dropped off stuff at a Goodwill box near here. I'm not sure it still exists, but here are the directions ... It's in the parking lot between the church at Centre & Aiken, and the Wendy's (just east of it), which is accessible from either Centre or Baum. Well, there's an actual Goodwill store on Penn Ave. in Wilkinsburg, just the other side of the busway. You could drop the stuff there. There used to be a big dumpster-like collector at the Shadyside Giant Eagle, but it may be gone as well. ... and this is where I usuall go ... on S. Craig Street, down behind St. Paul's Cathedral grade school, to the right, there are two large blue bins. I can't recall if they're for the Improvement of the Poor, St. Paul's something or other, or what charitable organization. If you're coming from N. Neville, the bins are behind a fence, between a green apartment building and another school building. I always go on foot, walking down S. Craig, past Duranti's, and zip on through the parking lot, past the trailors from the public school system, and there they are, these two big, blue containers. The men's shelter at East Liberty Presbyterian Church will take clothing and blankets for men, and the Women's Shelter will accept things for women and children. For those two, I'd call first, though.