Books +
Children’s Book Bank
1728 NE Glisan St.
Portland, OR
Phone: (503) 616-3981
Description: The mission of The Children’s Book Bank is to increase the chances for children to succeed as future readers, learners, and citizens by filling their homes and lives with quality books.
Powell’s Bookstore
1005 W. Burnside
Portland, OR
Phone:
Toll Free: 800-878-7323
In the Portland, Oregon area: 503-228-4651
Description: Books for purchase and donation
Portland Books to Prisoners
P.O. Box 11222
Portland, OR 97211
Description: Portland Books To Prisoners is an all-volunteer collective working to distribute books free of charge to prisoners. Dedicated to offering people behind bars the opportunities for self-empowerment, education, and entertainment that reading provides.
Friends of the Library
Books for Friends of the Library can be dropped off at ANY Multnomah County public library branch (up to two bags a day). For larger donations, please take them to the Title Wave Bookstore, mentioned below.
Accepting: all pocket size and larger paperback fiction in good condition.
- All fiction hardbacks 1999 or newer
- All classics in paperback and hardback in good condition
- Any author who has been nominated or received a prize is considered classic
- All non-fiction books in paperback and hardback in good condition
- Encyclopedias that are 1999 or newer
- Videos, audiotapes, CDs, and DVDs, sheet music and maps.
They do NOT accept:
- Books that are torn, dirty, smell of mold or smoke or other strong odors
- Books with excessive writing or underlining.
- Magazines or Readers’ Digest condensed books
- Computer books older than 2007
- Encyclopedias older than 1999
- Textbooks and reference books older than 2001
The Title Wave Used Bookstore | Multnomah County Library
216 NE Knott Street
Portland, OR 9721
Phone:
(503) 988-5021
Description:
All neighborhood libraries accept donations of books, audiobooks, CDs, DVDs and magazines in good condition for the Friends of the Library’s semi-annual used book sales and the Friends’ Library Store. The proceeds benefit Multnomah County Library. You may donate up to two boxes of materials at your neighborhood library any time it is open.
If you have more than two boxes, please bring them to the Title Wave. Use the delivery driveway east of the store and ring the buzzer. Title Wave donation hours: Monday – Friday, 8 am – 4 pm.
Cell phones +
EarthShare Oregon
319 SW Washington Street, Suite 501
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: 503-223-9015
Hours: 9:00A -5:00P
Description: Fee: No
Pick-Up: if large quantity
Call to Safety (Formerly the Portland Women’s Crisis Line)
Phone: 503-232-9751
Description: Call to Safety recycles cell phones and distributes them to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Survivors are able to use these cell phones to call 911, allowing immediate help at the touch of a button.
If you have a cell phone you would like to donate you can mail it to:
PWCL Cell Phone Project
P.O. Box 42610
Portland, OR 97242
Please include a wall charger and any working batteries with your donation. To protect your privacy, we recommend you remove all personal information from your phone before making your donation.
Clothing +
Just For Kids
1925 NE 42nd Ave, #F
Portland, OR 97213-1300
Phone: 503-249-7556
Hours: Mon-Fri 9:30-5, Sat 10-4
Description:
Fee: No fee, you get consignment (paid the next month) or in-store trade
Pick-Up: No
Impact NW
10055 E. Burnside
Portland, OR 97216
Contact: Jill Morrow
Phone: 503-988-4996 ext.267
Hours: Accept donations Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm
Fee: No
Pick-Up: No
Impact NW gladly accepts in-kind donations of:
- New or gently used clothing for children and adults
- New or gently used household items like pots & pans and small kitchen appliances
- New or gently used sheets, comforters, blankets, towels & linens
- Non-perishable food items
- Furniture in good condition*
- Vehicles
- Gift drive items
(select times of the year that include coats, gloves, blankets, school supplies & hygiene kits) - Gently used medical equipment including walkers, wheelchairs, canes & guide rails
Bradley Angle House
5432 North Albina Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
Phone: 503-282-9940
Description: Appliances, Beds/Bedding, Furniture, Linens
Provides housing for battered women and children during transition into the community. Be sure to call to confirm donations.
Making Memories
2553 NW Division St.
Gresham, OR 97030
Phone: 503-491-8091
Description: Gown Donations
Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation Mission: Our mission is to grant wishes, including memory-making events, for metastatic breast cancer patients, while continuing to support, educate and increase resource awareness.
Dress for Success
1532 B NE 37th,
Portland, OR 97232
Phone: 503-249-7300
Description: Women’s business casual attire
Good Neighbor Center
Address: 11130 SW Greenburg Rd, Tigard, OR 97223
Hours: Open Daily · 7AM–9PM
Phone: (503) 443-6084
Description: The Good Neighbor Center will take food donations (opened an unopened, as long as they are not expired), personal hygiene products (open and unopened), clothing and small household items – no furniture.
Union Gospel Mission
11611 SW Pacific Hwy, Tigard, OR 97223
Phone: (503) 639-6488
Description: Union Gospel Mission provides outreach for homeless and other people in need. You can donate gently used clothing and household furniture and appliances to their thrift store, all proceeds go back to the rescue mission.
Portland Rescue Mission
P.O. Box 3713,
Portland, OR 97208-3713
Phone: 503-MISSION (647-7466)
Description: Clothing, basic hygiene products, socks, blankets, undergarments, coats, hats and gloves
Vietnam Veterans of Oregon
1750 SW Skyline Blvd, #15
Portland, OR 97221
Phone: 503-762-2202
Description: Clothing, Furniture – Small Household Items
The ARC of Oregon
6929 NE Halsey
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: 503-777-4736 or 1-800-379-2424
Description: Helps people with developmental disabilities to achieve a greater quality of life.
CANNOT ACCEPT: baby furniture, exercise equipment, large appliances or gas-powered items like lawn mowers.
West Women’s & Children’s Shelter
NW 20th & Kearney
Portland, OR
Phone: 503-224-7718
Description: West Women’s & Children’s Shelter
Computers, Monitors +
Earth Protection Services Inc.
7272 SW Durham Rd., Suite 100
Tigard, OR 97224
Phone: 503-620-2466
Description: High quality, cost-effective waste management for electronic products like batteries, lamps, light bulbs, printers, monitors, TVs.
FREE GEEK Community Technology Center
1731 SE 10th Avenue,
Portland, OR 97214
Phone: 503-232-9350
Description: We take tired, poor, wretched, homeless, tempest-tossed and arguably obsolete electronic materials from all over the Portland area and beyond. Believing firmly that reuse is the highest and best form of recycling, we refurbish as much of that stuff as we can and send it back out into the community with a new lease on life.
The stuff that doesn’t make the grade is not banished to landfills to leach toxins into the water table. Nor is it sent to developing nations to be disassembled by small children. We do our very best to make sure that all electronic materials we don’t reuse are responsibly recycled within North America.
Free Geek recycles approximately 500 tons of scrap per year and puts thousands of refurbished computers back into the hands of people who will use them.
Total Reclaim
5805 NE Columbia Blvd Portland, OR
Phone: (503) 281-1899
Hours: Drop Off Location – 8am – 4pm | They offer pick-up for a fee of $100
Description: Total Reclaim accepts electronic materials for recycling, including computers, electronics, light bulbs, batteries, appliances, and refrigerators.
Oregon City Metro South Station
2001 Washington St.
Oregon City, OR 97045
Phone: 503-234-3000
Description: Metro Recycling accepts a wide variety of materials at both of their transfer stations – including aluminum, electronics, appliances and various types of hazardous waste. See their website for a full list and instructions for proper packaging and disposal.
Regular Recycling: Open 8-5
Daily: Hazardous Waste Accepted 9-4 M-Sat
Crafts +
The SCRAP Store
1736 SW Alder St
Portland, Oregon
Phone: (503) 294-0769
Hours: 11am to 6pm daily
Description: Open to the public seven days a week, sells all kinds of reused materials for arts, crafts, and scrapbooking, plus school, office, and party supplies. They also offer some new convenience items such as glues and brushes. The store changes everyday and are accepting new donations constantly, you never know what you’re going to find!
Schoolhouse Supplies
2735 NE 82nd Ave.
Portland, OR 97220
Phone: 503-249-9933
Hours: Mon – Thurs, 9-5pm
Description: Schoolhouse Supplies collects new and reusable school, office, and art supplies, books, games and other learning materials suitable for classrooms and distributes them to teachers.
The Dreaming Zebra Foundation
The Dreaming Zebra Foundation serves to connect members of the community with disadvantaged youth in need of art and music supplies.
To Donate Art or Music Supplies, call 503-206-6400
Eye Glasses & Hearing Aids +
Oregon Lions
1010 NW 22nd Ave., #144
Portland, OR 97210
Phone: 503-413-7399 or (800) 635-4667
Eyeglasses
Hearing Aids
Description: On behalf of the Lions of Oregon, our mission is to provide programs that positively impact quality of life in our communities, with an emphasis on sight and hearing.
General +
General Donors Resource
3 Monroe Parkway, #P-204
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
Description: Help finding a nonprofit organization to accept your donations.
Teen Challenge
3121 NE Sandy Blvd,
Portland, OR 97232
Phone: 503-230-1910
Habitat for Humanity ReStore
66 SE Morrison
Portland, OR
Phone: 503-283-6247
Description: Accepted items include a variety of building materials and both new and used hardware, furniture, appliances and household goods.
The Rebuilding Center
3625 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR
Phone: 503-331-1877
Description: The ReBuilding Center accepts reusable building materials – their website provides a comprehensive list of the items they need and accept.
They also offer a free pick up service for larger, approved items.
Southeast Portland Tool Library
SE 28th Place and Harrison
(in St. David’s Episcopal Church)
Portland, OR
Description: The SE Portland Tool Library is an all-volunteer library of home and garden tools which may be borrowed free of charge by SE Portland residents.
Check out this link below for their guidelines for donations.
Household +
Community Warehouse
Eastside: 3969 NE MLK Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97212
Eastside phone: 503.235.8786
Westside: 8380 SW Nyberg St, Tualatin, OR, 97062
Westside phone: 503.235.8786
Description: Community Warehouse is a friendly, nonprofit furniture bank that collects and redistributes donated household goods and furniture to neighbors in need.
Partnering with 150+ social service agencies, the Warehouse helps over 6,000 people stabilize their lives each year by providing them with the basics that turn their housing into comfortable, functional homes.
If you have extra household goods or furnishings you no longer need, please consider giving them to the Warehouse. We’ll put your used goods to good use! _We just ask that your items are gently-used and in clean, working condition.
Good Neighbor Center
Address: 11130 SW Greenburg Rd, Tigard, OR 97223
Hours: Open Daily · 7AM–9PM
Phone: (503) 443-6084
Description: The Good Neighbor Center will take food donations (opened an unopened, as long as they are not expired), personal hygiene products (open and unopened), clothing and small household items – no furniture.
William Temple House
Address: 2023 NW Hoyt St, Portland, OR 97209
Hours: Open Daily · 10AM–8PM
Phone: (503) 226-3021
Description: Food, children’s clothing, hygene items
Vietnam Veterans of Oregon
1750 SW Skyline Blvd, #15,
Portland, OR 97221
Phone: 503-291-1982
Description: Clothing, Furniture – Small Household Items
The ARC of Oregon
6929 NE Halsey
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: 503-777-4736 or 1-800-379-2424
Description: Helps people with developmental disabilities to achieve a greater quality of life.
CANNOT ACCEPT: baby furniture, exercise equipment, large appliances or gas-powered items like lawn mowers.
Makeup +
Recycle Beauty
Lake Oswego Sola Salon: 17942 SW McEwan Rd
Tualatin, OR 97224
Canyon Place Sola Salon
3905 SW 117th Ave. Suite M
Beaverton, OR 97005
Description: Bring used or new soaps, shampoo and conditioner, hairstyling products, lotions (no used bar soap please). Bring new: bar soap, razors, feminine hygiene products, makeup, toothbrushes, toothpaste. All donations given to local shelters.
Music +
Ethos Music Center
10 N. Killingsworth
Portland, OR 97219
Phone: 503-283-8467
Description: Ethos Music Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of music and music-based education for youth in underserved communities.
Piano Santa
P.O. Box 80214 Portland, OR 97280
Phone: (503) 245-6269
Description: The Piano Santa Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and enhancing music education for children in the Portland Metropolitan area. They accept a certain number of used pianos each year. Give them a call and a volunteer coordinator will be in touch.
Piano. Push. Play
Email: megandiana@gmail.com
Description: They “rescue” pianos and put them on the street for everyone to enjoy.
Snowman Foundation
Email: marietta@snowmanfoundation.org
Phone: (503) 746-1080
Description: The Snowman Foundation is a non-profit that connects donated musical instruments to children in need.
The Dreaming Zebra Foundation
The Dreaming Zebra Foundation serves to connect members of the community with disadvantaged youth in need of art and music supplies.
To Donate Art or Music Supplies, call 503-206-6400
Toys +
Northwest Children’s Outreach
Phone: 503-828-1472
Hours and Locations: Use this guide
Description: This local nonprofit operates distribution centers in Oregon and SW Washington, connecting caregivers with needed items. Volunteers sort clothing, pack orders, and pick up donations. They accept clothing for newborns to teens, hygiene products, breastfeeding supplies (including pumps), nursery items, children’s safety products, toys, and books.