The Center for Community Involvement & Service-Learning and Residential Services are coordinating will sponsor the annual "Trash to Treasure" to distribute gently used items, donated by the TCU community, to non-profit agencies. Because of the timing of the donation drive and the enormity of the task, "Trash to Treasure" is not possible without the support of faculty and staff volunteers.

 

Sign yourself up or organize a small team from your department to pick-up/sort items left behind or thrown away as students vacate residence halls during finals week May 6-9. Volunteers assigned to “Pick-up” will collect items from residence hall lobbies and deliver them to the Rec Center. Volunteers assigned to “Sort” will organize the items for pick-up by non-profit agencies. You can also bring donations with you when you come to the Rec Center to volunteer. If you have a truck or SUV that can be used during pick-up hours, please indicate it on the registration form.

Shifts:
Monday - Thursday, 10 a.m. to noon or 3 to 5 p.m.

Friday, 10 a.m. to noon, noon to 2 p.m. (lunch provided) or 2 to 4 p.m.

Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon (lunch provided) or 2 to 3 p.m.


To sign up, go to https://orgsync.com/23696/forms/48913

This year, Trash to Treasure will benefit:

 

· YWCA: Provides safe places for victims of rape or domestic violence, job training, childcare, and health services. The YWCA Resale Shop brings additional income to the YWCA as well as provides their clients with merchandise.

· Tarrant Area Food Bank: Serves 300 partner agencies in 13 counties. Donated food may be distributed to partner agencies, sent to other food banks in the Texas Food Bank Network, or sent home with a child over the weekend.

· SafeHaven/Berry Good Buys: In addition to protecting victims and creating multiple opportunities to achieve independence and self- sufficiency, SHTC focuses on prevention by educating approximately 60,000 individuals annually. Berry Good Buys is a retail thrift store on West Berry that is operated by SafeHaven.

· Books for Africa: Works to end the book famine in Africa and to secure the educational future of a continent where 40% of children never go to school. Through a partnership with Better World Books, donated books will be sold with proceeds going towards sending books to Africa.