Affordable Housing, Donations, Emergency Assistance, Holidays & Dates
In the spirit of SVdP’s mission to bring comfort to the vulnerable in our community, we will offer support to seniors living at five of our affordable-housing properties this holiday season. Our new Season of Joy campaign will raise funds to provide totes filled with...
Recycling, Retail-Thrift Stores
Terry McDonald, the longtime, visionary executive director of St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County (SVdP), is the recipient of a Sustainable Oregon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Oregon Recyclers (AOR). The AOR honored McDonald Oct. 10 during...
Donations, Employment, Recycling, Retail-Thrift Stores
Who would expect modestly sized Eugene, Ore., to become a nationwide nexus for shipments of high-quality products discarded by some of the largest U.S. retailers? But that’s exactly what has happened, thanks to the innovative waste-diversion and revenue-generation...
Employment, Recycling, Retail-Thrift Stores
Turning trash into treasure is a worthy pursuit, by any measure. But “aspirational recycling” is hardly worth its weight in expanded polystyrene foam. More on that later. First, on this Earth Day, we want to tell you more about the environmental stewardship we take so...
Holidays & Dates, Social Justice
Did you know that three years before the 13th Amendment was ratified officially abolishing slavery in the Unites States, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act on April 16, 1862? That date became an official public holiday in the District of...