World Market Center donates furnishings
Six organizations benefit
-- Home Accents Today, 10/30/2006 6:40:00 AM
World Market Center donated about 800 pieces of merchandise with a retail value in excess of $250,000 on Thursday, Oct. 26. World Market Center has accumulated furniture and accessories, originally inventory of several of the tenants in the wholesale mart building, since its 2005 opening.
Products donated include nursery sets, diaper stackers, sheet sets, bed skirts, twin beds, pictures, lamps, cribs, mattresses, pillows, quilts, dressers, chairs, rugs, shelves, desks, bookcases, baskets, bunk beds, beanbags, night stands and chests.
The local beneficiaries of World Market Center’s Furniture Donation Day will include Child Haven, Safe Nest, Ronald McDonald House, Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, Young Israel Aish Las Vegas and Goodwill Industries. These organizations were selected based on their immediate needs and ability to utilize the merchandise.
“We are in possession of a vast inventory of new furniture merchandise and wanted to put it to the highest and best use. Our goal was to spread the goods to benefit as many community organizations as possible, and yet still make an impact for each one,” said Harvey Dondero, chief executive officer of World Market Center. “With so many needy charities in the valley, we focused on very high need situations and organizations that we felt could put the product to immediate use in their shelter or thrift stores. For example, Child Haven, a shelter for abused children, has an immediate requirement to furnish a new cottage opening in December that will house up to 30 at-risk children.”
Teri Medina, child development specialist and supervisor at Child Haven, said much of the product being donated, which includes bunk beds and cribs, will be used in a new cottage being built at Child Haven to be used for siblings housed at the facility, while other goods will be used for the area that houses medically fragile infants. “It means so much to us to receive furniture and furnishings that are of such high quality,” Medina said. “We try to make Child Haven as home-like as possible for children in custody and it’s so wonderful to have new furniture for these kids, who are put in a bad situation. We feel so fortunate to have World Market Center reach out to us in this incredible way. We are so grateful and touched.”
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