Donations, Employment, Recycling, Retail-Thrift Stores, Uncategorized
Early this spring, SVdP will cut the ribbon on a new retail location in Cottage Grove, Ore. The latest “St. Vinnie’s” will be our first new location since 2022, when we opened the doors at 888 Garfield St. in Eugene. It will be the 14th and southernmost store in St....
Affordable Housing, Emergency Assistance, Employment, Property Management, Recycling, Retail-Thrift Stores, Staff Stories
At its Nov. 8, 2023 meeting, the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County (SVdP) Board of Directors voted to promote SVdP Deputy Director Bethany Cartledge to the position of Executive Director, effective Dec. 1, 2023. Effective the same date, the board approved...
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...