Impact Stories
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- October 30, 2022
The reality behind closed doors Visualizing the stories of furniture poverty At Furniture Bank, we see what furniture poverty looks like every day—children sleeping on nests of clothes on the floor, families eating dinner off...
- October 30, 2022
The Picture Isn’t Real, The Reality Is This is furniture poverty Avoiding “Poverty Porn” Many charities lean on “hard-hitting” photos used to shock donors into giving. For more than 40 years, charities have relied on...
- July 29, 2021
Client Impact: Drayer’ Story A Furniture Bank Impact Story In Drayer’s own words: I was in a tent because…because my life crashed. I’m a construction worker. I was an electrician for years, and the negativity...
- March 29, 2021
Former Controller Sushma worked at Furniture Bank for over 5 years before leaving to pursue her professional career growth. Sushma started at Furniture Bank in 2011 as a Bookkeeper. She was determined to use this...
- March 29, 2021
When asked if becoming a carpenter was a part of her life plan, Christa responded with a resounding no, she said, “I always enjoyed building, but it wasn’t something I thought I could make into...
- March 29, 2021
Miro came to Furniture Bank as a participant in our LegUp program in 2004 and has since been around to see it all. “In September of 2020 I began my 17th year at Furniture Bank....
- February 10, 2021
Client Impact: Ranju’s Story A Furniture Bank Impact Story In search of better employment opportunities, Ranju moved to Canada in October 2018 from Dubai, where he had lived for the past 30 years. Ranju says,...
- September 29, 2020
At Furniture Bank, we stand up for the right to sit down, to have a true home, and to begin anew. We have helped many individuals and families to feel like home again. In fact,...
- September 2, 2020
Table of Contents How we help Many of the people we work with in housing programs have never had a real home; many grew up in different systems and institutions, child welfare, psychiatric facility or...
- January 16, 2020
122 Families receive the comfort of a new IKEA duvet! Melissa Mirowski (Head of Sustainability) and Annalee Sawiak, founder of Furniture Link Inc. organized a tour of the Furniture Bank facility in Etobicoke for Andrew...
