I have women's clothes to donate?

Question

But..I do not want to donate them an organization that will send them to another country, I want them to go to an AMERICAN woman, and I do not want to give them to an organization that is affiliated with any religions. Just a private organization that will make sure that these clothes go to an American woman. I want to take care of my own first. Seems there are plenty of women in need in my own country. Does anyone know of any organizations? There are not enough corporate clothes to go to the Dress for Sucess program. Mostly casual stuff.

Answer 1

Consider Goodwill or the American Cancer Society thrift shops.  The clothes don't actually leave the country - it simply isn't economical to ship them halfway across the world.  The clothes are sold at local shops to raise money; that money is then used for programs both in this country and around the world.

A local church or homeless shelter would donate the actual clothes directly to a local woman.

www.charitynavigator.org is a great resource for information on U.S. charities.

Answer 2

Look into your area homeless or women's shelters.  They might have a program setup.

Answer 3

You can find out for your local schools if they do donations, many times they will have ways to donate that help out the community.  It's worth a quick phone call to see if they do anything like that.

Answer 4

Like Nova said, homeless shelters in your area.  I worked for a family shelter that had just women.  With most shelters, you can just drop by and talk with the staff and residents.  You will know who and how they get donations.  

Also, I know that we got lots of clothes donations and sometimes it wasn't what was needed.  For the women, diapers and formula were higher priority.  If you can take the time to sell the clothes in a yard sale and then use that money as a donation to the shelter, you will impact them more.