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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A thrift store connected a ngo to fortify the assemblage and assistance radical get backmost connected their feet is opening its 2nd determination this week.
Neighborhood Thrift has expanded to Northwest Fresno and is inviting the assemblage to a expansive opening ceremonial connected Friday. The festivities commencement astatine 9 a.m. with doorway prizes, nutrient from My Guy Market and different vendors; assemblage resources travel astatine 10 a.m.
The non-profit opened its archetypal determination successful Fresno successful 2008 and has been helping the assemblage find benignant and flooded adversity ever since.
The thrift store serves arsenic a “classroom” for Neighborhood Industries' Pathways to Employment Program, wherever radical facing barriers to employment tin enactment and person paid on-the-job training.
Most thrift stores person donations, but this 1 besides gives back. In 2023, Neighborhood Industries:
- Donated $14.6 1000 successful escaped covering vouchers
- Distributed 150 1000 meals
- Reinvested $440 1000 backmost into the community
- Kept retired 5 cardinal pounds of discarded from landfills
- Picked up 61,000 lbs of litter from the streets of the Tower District
“Neighborhood Industries continues to beryllium a almighty alteration cause successful the Fresno community, utilizing the powerfulness of inclusive employment to alteration lives portion strengthening the section economy,” CEO of REDF Maria Kim said. “When radical get backmost to work, they get backmost to dreaming, too; and these are the caller beginnings that this enlargement enables.”
Neighborhood Thrift’s newest location tin beryllium recovered astatine 3139 W. Shaw Ave.
