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Thrift Shops
Organizations that offer new or secondhand furniture, appliances, clothing, toys and other material goods at lower than retail prices, and which often use the proceeds from sales to support other services to the community. Thrift shops accept direct donations from the public of new and reusable goods. Also included are other types of resale shops that sell secondhand but reusable musical instruments, salvaged building materials, office equipment, sports equipment, books, CDs and other material goods.
Disaster Related Commodity Replacement/Rental
Programs that repair, replace, or provide money to rent vital household or personal property that has been destroyed in a localized incident such as a house fire or a more wide-spread disaster such as a major fire, flood, hurricane, earthquake or tornado.
The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.