Home Sweet Home donation facility now drop-off only

Posted on July 19, 2015

*The Home Sweet Home warehouse on West Washington Street no longer has staff helping with donations.*

By Adam Studzinski

BLOOMINGTON – Home Sweet Home Ministries is making a change in how it collects donations at its facility on West Washington Street.

The facility, located at 1700 W. Washington St., will now be a drop-off donation center only. Director of Retail Operations Chris Trimble said this is a change from having the site attended from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

“It just seems to make sense for us, based on donation trends, that we no longer man that facility,” he said.

Despite this change, Trimble said the general set up for donating at the site remains the same.

“We have our donation shed and we have a fenced portion of it, which we typically asked folks to use for the overnight donations,” Trimble said.

Trimble explained Home Sweet Home’s Mission Mart donation facility is still being manned.

“We’re staffed there 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday with folks to help with unloading and with donation receipts,” said Trimble. “The location behind the Mission Mart at 301 E. Oakland Ave. has always been the most popular location.”

Trimble said Home Sweet Home accepts all sorts of donations from household goods to clothing and even small electronics, whether they’re operable or not. Any electronics which are not operational are recycled.

Adam Studzinski can be reached at [email protected].

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