Here are some more ideas from Organic Gardening on the other stuff in your closet that still may have a life to it:
- Backpacks and Coats
- Check with your local shelters, schools, and churches if they are collecting for underprivileged children
- Boots/Shoes
- Boots for Rangers for African rangers who patrol park boundaries and wilderness areas
- Passages Northwest Outdoor exploration for girls of diverse backgrounds
- Nike's Reuse-a-Shoe program makes surfaces for basketball courts, tennis courts, tracks, and playgrounds out of any brand of athletic shoe
- Clothes
- Donate to your local Goodwill or Salvation Army Store
- Check with local shelters, domestic violence programs, and churches- especially with maternity clothes or baby clothes
- Career Clothes
- Career Closet and Dress for Success -interview-appropriate clothes for disadvantaged women Also Career Gear for men, and Jobs for Youth/Chicago for youths.
- Prom Dresses for underprivileged students
- Cinderella's Closet for girls in the Sacramento area,The Princess Project for girls in the San Francisco area, The Glass Slipper Project for Chicago high school girls, and also Fairy Godmothers Inc
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