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...
Affordable Housing, Donations, Emergency Assistance, Employment, First Place Family Center, Retail-Thrift Stores, Shelter Assistance, Veterans, Volunteer
TURNING TRASH INTO TREASURE One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, as the old saying goes. Since opening our first salvage bureau in 1953, St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County has proved this saying true time and again. By building a successful...
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...
Affordable Housing, Donations, Emergency Assistance, Employment, First Place Family Center, New Developments, Property Management, Retail-Thrift Stores, Self-Sufficiency, Shelter Assistance, Staff Stories, Youth & Family
A YEAR OF CHANGE Many of us will always remember 2020 as a year that shook our lives. The worldwide disruption brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic affected billions of people from every walk of life. For so many, 2020 was certainly a year of uncertainty, fear, and...
Affordable Housing, Employment, New Developments
Steel workers once created heavy-duty logging implements in the cavernous manufacturing plant at 888 Garfield St., which dates to 1957. After the timber industry’s decline, the facility served as mostly quiet warehouse space for several decades. Now, another...
