Autograph Donation Agreement Made Easy

Autograph donation agreement

our first attended donation center opened in 1975 and now we operate more than 100 donation sites throughout the Columbia Willamette we have donation trailers donation Express site and store donation centers all of our donation centers are staffed by attendants that's part of our commitment to take the best care of your donations here's where it all starts most of our stores accept boutiques have a donation drive through the donation attendant grabs a blue cart goes out and greets the donor and takes their donation in all of our locations our attendants always ask if the donor needs a receipt your donation is tax deductible most people don't see what happens between the donations or in a retail store floor and there are lots of steps a lot of really committed and skilled people involved in the process the donation is taken to the donation sort area and the donations have sorted into the same category as they are produced hazmat material gets put in a designated area medical supplies put in a medical supply area and it's donated to medical teams international hardware and other recyclables are immediate recycled and is very little that does not get processed for sale or Salvage the trailer donation sites go through the same sorting process as the stores just on a smaller scale our process is designed to be efficient and keep the outside clean and inviting a lot of effort goes into taking donations and treating them with care we've got donations coming into the stores come in on trucks from our donation sites you can be assured that when you see gi CW's trucks and trailers on the road the trailers are loaded extremely efficiently in full we strive to leave the smallest footprint possible in the environment no matter where they come from after sorting donations come to processing for each of the categories we have people determining their value and getting them ready to sell our number one donation category is clothing like our other process employees she is very knowledgeable about value what will sell and what's in season our processing team also determined what's going to e-commerce in our online stores each book and media item is scanned to determine where it goes de commerce retail store or outlet looks like Elvis is leaving the building you guys make printers we'll take anything electrical working or not all electrical gets tested that printer doesn't work it's going to the outlet to get recycled we are a certified e-cycle we are currently among the top be cycling contributors in Oregon every year we recycle nearly 12 million pounds in electronics we do take almost everything there are a few things we cannot accept hazardous materials building materials tires mattresses large appliances we've got a complete list on our website no matter what you donate we treat your donation with respect and no matter where you donate our goals are the same convenience cleanliness and customer service whether it's sold in one of our online stores in our retail stores or gets recycled or salvaged we treat everything with care we had hundreds of millions of pounds in donations every year and we're able to sell salvaged or recycle nearly 90% of it that's a lot and you can see a lot goes into it it all goes to our free services and our donors make it happen it's about helping people and helping the community [Music]