Everywhere you turn, organizations are always looking for charitable donations. You’ve heard the radio spots and seen the ads on TV about how you can make a difference and every year, scores of Americans donate money, clothing and make houseware donations to the less fortunate. When it comes to donating to charity, the benefits are obvious. You’re helping real people in need, you’re doing a good deed for your community and you’re passing on items like houseware donations to folks who have more use of them them you do. You make not think so, but donations of any kind can…
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Kindness. It is the stuff you are supposed to throw around like confetti. As school district after school district first in the Omaha metropolitan area and then the rest of the state, kindness did seem to be falling from the sky. Prompted by the personal pain of one superintendent’s family over the suicide of their son, the kindness movement caught on quickly. You can hardly, for instance, walk into any school on any day and not see a student or staff member wearing their school district’s version of the kindness shirts. From drives for veterans donations to helping families in…
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Donating items is a great way to get rid of things that you no longer want or need without filling the landfills with junk. Approximately three-quarters of solid waste that is disposed of is recyclable, however less than one-third is actually recycled, with about 12 million tons of textile waste and old clothes being thrown into the garbage each year. This accounts to almost 82 pounds of solid or textile waste per person being tossed into the landfill each year. It’s easy to see why donating is important, but for someone who has never donated before this can leave them…