{"id":169425,"date":"2023-07-26T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=169425"},"modified":"2023-07-27T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:55:57","slug":"habitat-northumberland-to-expand-donation-pick-up-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/habitat-northumberland-to-expand-donation-pick-up-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitat Northumberland to expand donation pick-up program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) will enable Habitat for Humanity Northumberland to expand its donation pick-up program for its ReStore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The funding of $82,400 from the OTF\u2019s Resilient Communities Fund was used to purchase a new reliable truck to meet the demand of pick-up donations, which are key to operating the ReStore.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yesterday, Habitat staff, volunteers and board members welcomed OTF representatives along with Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini and Ontario <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Sport Neil Lumsden while Cobourg council was also represented by a few councillors and Mayor Lucas Cleveland for the announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Habitat Executive Director Meaghan Macdonald said until now, donations were only picked up three days a week or less when the old truck was out of commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor a while, we were renting a truck so we even had to reduce it because the cost to rent was so high\u2026but we have demand, people are waiting weeks to get the product picked up which means we\u2019re not generating revenue and it\u2019s not coming in through the door and going back out,\u201d Macdonald said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Macdonald said the ReStore and its donations is what funds the organizational capacity of Habitat Northumberland to pay for staffing so that all other funding can go towards building homes. She said because of the constant donations, there are always good finds to be had for shoppers at the store.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone wishing to donate items in good condition can e-mail <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">donatestuff@habitatnorthumberland.ca<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or call the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.habitatnorthumberland.ca\/contact\">ReStore<\/a> and ask about donating. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.habitatnorthumberland.ca\/_files\/ugd\/ca27b1_5e365036be474553baa0ec0ff535c56f.pdf?index=true\">list<\/a> of what is accepted and what isn\u2019t is available at<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/habitatnorthumberland.ca\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">habitatnorthumberland.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story here:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) will enable Habitat for Humanity Northumberland to expand its donation pick-up program for its ReStore.\u00a0 The funding of $82,400 from the OTF\u2019s Resilient Communities Fund was used to purchase a new reliable truck to meet the demand of pick-up donations, which are key to operating the ReStore.\u00a0\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":169429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,21655],"tags":[4008,2783,20541,25993,27264,19270],"radio":[25167],"origine":[267,25406,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169630,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169425\/revisions\/169630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169425"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=169425"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=169425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}