College Students: Give Your Best to Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries This Spring

College Dorm Clean Out

At Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries, we are happy to receive nearly everything college students drop off as they leave town each spring. In fact, we are so excited to be the go-to donation site for this annual migration that we’ve established formal relationships with local universities. But, more on that subject later.

Spring is traditionally a strong season for donations for our 14 retail stores throughout Massachusetts. Think spring cleaning and you get the idea.

No matter what your ideal color palette refresh might be, it’s easy to accent any room with a little creative thrifting.

What Good Does Your Donation Do Each Spring?

Your donations help support our mission of helping individuals with barriers to self-sufficiency to achieve independence and dignity through work.

Each spring, and in fact, every season, your generous donations provide items that will be sorted and tagged by individuals with developmental disabilities in our employment supports program. This work not only provides valuable on-the-job training and experience for program participants but also a paycheck.

Goodwill’s College Partnership: “Goodwill Not Landfill.”

We are proud of our relationships with local colleges. For the past 13 years, we’ve helped Boston University students conveniently and easily donate gently used items without having to leave their dorms. In 2022, this collaboration yielded 50 tons of material for our stores. This year, we hope to return to pre-pandemic levels when our generous Boston University students donated upwards of 70 tons each spring. To kick off our “Goodwill Not Landfill” campaign, we deliver blue Goodwill bins to BU’s 17 college dorm locations, rotating them out as they are filled. This year, our “bin drops” begin April 27^th – giving students a chance to clean out earlier than usual!

What can Goodwill accept from a dorm room?

Dorm rooms are unique in that they are similar to miniature apartments. They hold a little bit of everything. Because of this special situation, we’d like to clarify what we can and cannot accept from a dorm.

We are always excited to receive such useful items as:

Small desks/chairs/table lamps
Mini-fridges/ microwaves/small appliances
Decorations
Clothing and outerwear – of course!
College memorabilia — After all, in August, a fresh new group of students will visit our stores. Give them the best you’ve got!

We cannot accept:

Food.
Heavily used linens
Pillows
Mattress toppers
Chemicals or cleaning supplies

Please visit our website for a full listing of items we ask you not to donate. https://www.goodwillmass.org/what-to-donate/

For more information on recycling textiles, go to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts website at https://www.mass.gov/guides/textile-recovery#-consumer-textile-donation-&-recycling.

Thank you so much for supporting Goodwill each year.

For more information on how we help individuals in Massachusetts, explore our website or listen to this year’s Annual Meeting here. Thank you again students, good luck — and see you next year!

Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries

Goodwill is a community-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to help individuals with barriers to self-sufficiency to achieve independence and dignity through work. It provides job training programs for individuals who are responding to challenges such as disabilities, domestic violence, low educational attainment and previous incarceration. Goodwill also operates Goodwill Boston Career Center, a one-stop career center located in Boston that offers universal access to a broad range of services for job seekers. The Goodwill stores in Massachusetts provide jobs and on-the-job training opportunities and offer quality, low-cost goods to individuals and families looking for value. To learn more, visit Goodwill online at www.goodwillmass.org or follow on social media @goodwillboston.