Disabled workers paid just pennies an hour - and it's legal

[moonshaz]

Some Disabled Goodwill Workers Earn As Little As 22 Cents An Hour As Execs Earn Six Figures: Report

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[blondebeaker]

Value Village? Unless that is a Canada only thing.

[lurkch]

Value Village has agreements with local charities to compensate them for clothing donations they receive so money may still go to Goodwill depending on what local contracts Value Village has.

[ericadawn16]

I'd look into local thrift stores.

In my area, we have several Hospice related stores that help pay for those who can't afford their hospice care.

There's also St. Vincent de Paul which not everyone would be comfortable with but I've seen them do good works.

[sio]

do you have a local women's shelter? they could probly use clothes for the people they assist.

[xhollydayx]

I used First Call For Help (211)'s website to locate local charities, then read more about the ones that were truly local (as opposed to a local Goodwill location). I have a bunch of stuff from a move, plus realizing that hey, I"m never going to be a size 2 again. Several homeless shelters and women's shelters were thrilled to be getting stuff. I'm just having problems right now finding someone to donate the furniture to (mostly an issue b/c I can't pick it up and don't have a way to transport it)