MAKE IT HOME
OUR MISSION
To help Bay Area families and individuals transitioning out of crisis. We recycle, repurpose, and curate gently-used, donated furnishings to transform empty spaces into homes.
Our vision is to end furniture poverty while protecting the environment.
WHAT IS THE ORGANIZATIONS GENERAL PURPOSE?
Make it Home was founded in 2020
Started by an interior designer, Carolyn Rebuffel Flannery, Make It Home is a non-profit furniture bank that provides gently used furniture and household goods to newly-housed foster kids, formerly homeless families, and individuals who would otherwise move into an empty apartment.
By providing furnishings to those formerly in crisis, Make It Home not only creates a true home for its clients but also greatly increases their confidence and sense of security. These efforts dramatically reduce their chance of returning to the streets and put them on a positive path.
With the homes we create, we keep tons of furnishings out of landfills. Caring about our community and the environment is woven into everything we do. Make It Home is proud to be a Certified California Green Business.
13% of Bay Area residents are living in poverty, and the homeless population today is larger and growing faster than ever before.
1 out of every 4 youth in foster care will become homeless within 4 years of aging out of foster care.
Simply placing people in housing does not equal long-term success.
By collecting donated, gently used, and repurposed furnishings and household goods, we are working toward our goal of ending furniture poverty in our community. We create sets of essential home items to provide families, foster youth, and individuals with the support they need to Make It Home.
Additionally, 12.1 Million Tons of Furniture Waste Went to Landfills in the US in 2018.
That’s over 24.2 billion pounds (add in carpets and rugs for another almost 5 billion pounds) discarded to sit in landfills in 2018 alone. For perspective, when we furnish a home, a one-bedroom apartment requires about 1.1 tons of furniture, so (for some quick math) 11 MILLION one-bedroom apartments are getting tossed into the trash each year.
GRANT HISTORY
2023 - $1,700