Make It Home furnishes homes of those in need with donated furniture and household goods.
Make It Home regularly serves all Bay Area counties from our locations in San Rafael and Walnut Creek.
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Go here to donate furniture and household goods. Thanks!
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Requesting furniture from Make It Home requires a social worker, caseworker or case manager to make any requests.
If you need furniture, please contact your social worker or if you do not have a social worker, we can recommend some agencies that may be able to help you. Contact us.
If you are a social worker and this is your first time requesting furnishings, please fill out our Partner Form and we can get you started.
Request Furniture (password protected; access for Agency Partners only)
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Do you need to pay us for an item? Here’s our https://account.venmo.com/u/makeithome Link
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our why
The Numbers
MIH numbers to date
12.1 MILLION tons of furniture waste went to landfills in the us in 2018*
That’s over 24.2 billion pounds (add in carpets and rugs for another almost 5 billion pounds) discarded to sit in landfills in 2018 alone.
For perspective, when we furnish a home, a one-bedroom apartment requires about 1.1 tons of furniture, so (for some quick math) 11 MILLION one-bedroom apartments are getting tossed into the trash each year.
Meanwhile, 37.9 million people, or 11.6% of the U.S. population, are living in poverty (2021 U.S. Census) and lack the basic necessities to make a house a home.
We solve two problems at the same time, collecting, repurposing, and curating gently-used furnishings and household goods (saving them from landfill) AND giving them to people in need.
With the homes we create, we keep tons of furnishings out of landfills. Caring about our community and the environment is woven into everything we do. Make It Home is proud to be a Certified California Green Business.
* U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Photo: Eric Zepeda Photography
Home is where the heart is.
— Pliny the Elder