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Low Cost Building Materials/Supplies
Programs that provide access to building materials at below market costs. In many cases, the materials have been recovered from obsolete buildings by building deconstruction programs and made available for reuse by communities as an alternative to purchasing new materials.
Household Goods
Programs that pay for or provide new, reconditioned or secondhand furnishings for homes or apartments.
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Clothing
Programs that pay for or provide new or secondhand clothing. Included are clothing exchange programs.
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Donor Services
Programs that accept donations of material goods and services or money to purchase them and which coordinate the distribution of donations to agencies, organizations and disadvantaged community residents.
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Clothing Donation Programs
Programs that accept new or secondhand clothing, repair the items if necessary, and keep the clothing for use in their own programs, donate it to shelters and other community-based organizations for distribution to the people they serve, or sell it to raise money for agency programs.
The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.