Donate Unwanted Items to Charity

Donate to Charity

O, The Oprah Magazine | From the Spring 2004 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Type your area code at www.inkindex.com, a free Internet matching service, and a list of goods requested by local nonprofits pops up. If you have what they need, you contact them and arrange to drop it off or have them pick it up.
Match your giveaways (rugs, art, furniture) with nonprofits in your area that need them at www.access.com. A $10 registration fee allows you to post your offerings and view organizations' wish lists. Recipients take care of the pickup.
Gifts for Sight (www.giftsforsight.org) will take almost anything—even old cars and boats—which it then sells to fund medical research. Call 800-329-6441 to arrange for free pickup.

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