Furniture donations: To ensure your donation is treated with the care it deserves, we ask that furniture donations are dropped off at select locations that can accept furniture donations. The Donation centres that are able to accept furniture include:
Edmonton:
Calgary:
Christmas decorations and other holiday items can be donated to Goodwill in Alberta. This includes household holiday decor, Christmas lights and Christmas trees. However, please note that Christmas trees will only be accepted if they are in their original box or bag. All items should be in good condition when they are brought to a donation center.
Goodwill Alberta greatly appreciates all the donations received. When you donate to Goodwill you can rest assured your donation is going to a good cause. 89.2% of all profit goes back into the local community, helping people with disabilities find meaningful work.
When Goodwill can’t sell donated clothes, they use various alternative options to keep the clothes from reaching the landfill.
Luckily, clothing is easy to recycle or upcycle. If Goodwill can’t sell clothing donations in-store, on its online thrift store or at a Goodwill outlet, the clothes are often sold to a textile recycler or other salvage vendor.
These recyclers use the unsold clothing in various ways. For example, it may be cut up and used for different purposes or processed and recycled into a fibre filling for use in furniture or insulation. With the help of these alternative methods, Goodwill is able to keep millions of pounds of usable goods from reaching the landfill each year.
Most clothing and other donated items are successfully sold in Goodwill stores across Alberta, and internationally. With the help of other methods of selling and recycling, very little, if any, unsold clothing and other goods are thrown away.
To help keep clothing, household items and other used goods out of the landfill, Goodwill partners with local organizations to find alternative solutions. For example, Goodwill Alberta has a partnership with the University of Alberta that allows them to give clothing and household items left behind at residences a second chance.
As a result of being able to resell, repurpose or reuse nearly all items that are donated, Goodwill has an 86% diversion rate from local landfills and helps communities across the world minimize their environmental footprint. Goodwill’s sustainability practices divert over 19 million kilograms from landfills annually!
Furniture donations: To ensure your donation is treated with the care it deserves, we ask that furniture donations are dropped off at select locations that can accept furniture donations. The Donation centres that are able to accept furniture include:
Edmonton:
Calgary:
Every year Goodwill receives hundreds of thousands of donations. With so many items passing through our doors, occasionally something is donated by accident.
If you have donated an item unintentionally, please contact us as soon as possible through our website or by calling the location at which the donation was made. You can find the contact information for all of our locations on our donate page.
We highly encourage you to provide us with as much information as possible, including time and location of donation. As well as any pictures of the item.
We make every effort to locate and return items that were donated by mistake. However, our efficient staff is typically able to accept, process, and place items for sale in our stores in less than 24 hours. If you have donated an item unintentionally, there is a better chance to recover it the sooner you are able to let us know.
Thank you for your interest in hosting a donation drive! Your efforts make a huge difference in our communities, helping to connect Albertans with disabilities to employment opportunities that provide the self-esteem, confidence, and sense of accomplishment that comes from earning a paycheck.
The first step to organizing your donation drive is to contact us with an approximate date and location.
Please contact (780) 944-1414 or marketing@goodwill.ab.ca for more info.
Unfortunately, Goodwill does not have a pick-up service due to infrastructure and services not being available. If you would still like to donate and require a pick-up service, please contact College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk and Removal. Please be aware College H.U.N.K.S. is a private enterprise and a fee will be associated with a donation pick-up. They will pick up items, including appliances, furniture, exercise equipment and more and deliver these donations to a Goodwill donation centre.
https://www.collegehunkshaulingjunk.com/edmonton/
This 48-hour priority service involves a fee, but should be especially helpful to donors involved in major cleanups. College H.U.N.K.S. will not only bring your donations to Goodwill, they will clear out your items that Goodwill is unable to accept and take them to another nonprofit or a recycler.
Donation hours: You can find the hours of operation of your preferred donation centre on our donation page.
If you would like to donate, the best way is to stop by while there is a donor attendant to assist you.
The donations we receive from generous Albertans are placed into our stores for sale, and the revenue from the stores funds our mission of connecting Albertans with disabilities to jobs. For that reason, we ask that any donation of new or gently used household goods or clothing be clean and in good shape (i.e. free of rips or stains).
To find your closest donation centre, check out our donation page.
Goodwill is able to provide tax receipts for donations if any one item has a fair market value of $200 or more. Our donor attendants are equipped to manage this process. You will be asked to list the item(s) and their value and the information will be sent to our Finance department. Our Finance team will then send a tax receipt by mail. To ensure your items are valued properly, please bring a proof of value (online sale posting, etc.).
Goodwill strives to make the donation process easy for our donors, and we are happy to offer this guide to items we can and cannot accept. If you are still unsure of an item you’d like to donate, please contact us.