Donations to the Survival Center

The survival center is a non-profit organization, under section 501 3© of the Internal Revenue Code (our tax exempt number is 042-77-6526). Donors may deduct contributions of money, food, clothing or household items for tax purposes. We will accept donations throughout these hours as well. We have many contributors from the Franklin area community - See the list

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Franklin Area Survival Center, 96 Fourth Street Turners Falls, MA 01376

Items For Pick-Up

The store can also accept donations of food for the pantry. If you have large items to donate, please call us to arrange a pick-up or drop off (to be sure that we can accept your item at that time). Our telephone number is 413-863-9549.

Guidelines for Thrift Store Donations

The Survival Center can always use donations of furniture, household items, and clothing for our thrift store. Please observe the following guidelines: We only accept donations during business hours. Please do not leave donations outside of the store during non-business hours. Please do not leave bags of clothing outside our doors--feral cats in the area cause us to lose the contents.

We are accepting working electronics (TV's, Stereos, etc). Televisions are tested and if not working will be refused. We accept donations of estates, close outs, etc. - Please contact Del to arrange pick up. Furniture should be in good condition (all drawers are functional, no missing knobs or shelves, no excessive scratches, cracks or breaks, or dents, etc).

Clothing should be free of rips, stains, holes, and be in good condition. They should not be faded or dirty. We do not have facilities to wash clothing at the Survival Center so please be sure that clothing is in Ready to Sell condition. Large items such as furniture (and large amounts of clothing) can be arranged to be picked up by our driver.

Please call the Survival Center at 413-863-9549 if you need to arrange a pickup. Our driver has the discretion of rejecting any items he feels are not acceptable for resale in our thrift store. Please call with any questions regarding donations to Del at 863-9549. Please remember our thrift store helps finance our food pantry and pay the bills.

Please No After Hour Dumping

We have had a few people dropping items off after hours. We appreciate your donations, but please do not leave them after hours. We have a problem with feral cats in the area. They spray the items and they are then useless to us and we have to pay to dispose of them. The higher costs of disposing of these items takes away from our food budget! Please, we have very needy people relying on us to provide them with food, so please bring your good, sellable, clean donations to us during our open hours. Illegal dumping has happened as well. Large items have been dropped off when we are closed. Most of the larger items are not sellable. They are dirty, ripped, water logged and smelly.

Our security cameras recently caught two women and a man in a mini-van leaving off a large couch in this condition. We had to pay to have it removed and the cost to do so was the equivalent of 270 pounds of food. A past board member who is now an employee took a snap shot of the offender off the security camera and placed it in the window. Many of our loyal neighbors and customers are not happy with the people who did this, and we agree with them.

Dumping is occurring at several other non-profits as well, and at businesses who have drop boxes to benefit the needy, the costs of removing the items is rising for them, too. We have our property posted asking people not to leave things after hours and for police to take notice. Please adhere to this policy. If costs to remove these items keep going up, I am afraid that we will have to raise prices in our thrift store to accommodate the costs and we do not want to have to do that with the economy the way it is. We have not raised our prices since May of 2006 accept for books and cards. So if you know someone, or if you are one who has dumped off these bad items, please stop doing it.

The Board of Directors thank you in advance for understanding about this. And we thank you for your support throughout the years.

A Special Thanks to Our Donors

The Franklin Area Survival Center's Board of Directors would like to thank the many wonderful community members who have donated to us on a regular basis during the past year (some on a regular basis for numerous years!). Without your continued contributions, whether it was monetary or food, we could not have continued to do the job that we do. We would also like to thank the following businesses and groups who have held food drives, donated produce and/or food items:

Steve’s Aubuchon of Turners Falls
First Congregational Church of Sunderland
Community Health Charities of N.E. dba UMASS Community Campaign
Church World Services, CROP Walk
Holy Trinity Church, Greenfield
Connecticut River Internists, Turners Falls
Brookside Animal Hospital, Greenfield
South Deerfield Congregational Church, S. Deerfield
Staff of Wilcox Pharmacy, Mendon, VT
A Notion to Quilt, Shelburne
Turners Falls High School Alumni, Turners Falls
First Congregational Church, Greenfield
Women’s Guild, Trinitarian Church, Northfield
UNFI, Chesterfield, NH
Greenfield Savings Bank, Turners Falls
Northampton Savings Bank, Northampton
Montague Senior Center, Turners Falls
Erving Senior Center, Erving
Montague Lodge of Elks, Turners Falls
Holy Name of Jesus Church, S. Deerfield
Second Congregational Church, Greenfield
Diemand Egg Farm, Wendell
The Bars Farm, Deerfield
Garden Theater, Greenfield
Jim Wakefiel Birthday Cakes by students, Northampton
Selectboard and residents of Leverett
Nina Rossi Food Collection, Turners Falls
Rt. 63 Roadhouse, Millers Falls
Brownie Troop 295, Sheffield School, Turners Falls
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield
Galenski Farm
Girard’s Valley View Farm, Gill
Copper Angel, Shelburne
Dr. Edward Funk Veterinarian Hospital, Greenfield
Up in Gill Farm, Gill
Real Pickles, Greenfield
Hillside Plastics’ Employees, Turners Falls
Franklin County Tech School, Turners Falls
Deerfield Senior Center, South Deerfield
Northfield Mount Herman School, Northfield
Stop and Shop, Greenfield
Alan Stobierski Law Office, Deerfield
Wormtown Festival, Greenfield
Greenfield Center School Souper Bowl, Greenfield
Green River Club, Greenfield
Erving Grammar School PTO, Erving
Thomas Tourigny Machine Shop
YMCA Food Drive, Greenfield
Dales Farm, Erving
Fill the Belly Bus and Business Associates, Community Action, Greenfield
Devens’ Street Teens, Greenfield
Plumtree Landscaping
Mr. G’s, Winchester, NH
Bank of America, Greenfield Branch
WMECO employees-Franklin County
Mr. D’s Store, Winchester, NH
Postal Employees of Greenfield and Turners Falls
Coca Cola, Greenfield
Scalpers Lodge, Lake Pleasant
Great Falls Middle School Students, Turners Falls, MA
Gill Elementary School students and Employees
Elks Emblem Club, Greenfield
Peggy’s Beauty Salon, Greenfield
Bernardston Elementary School, Bernardston
Episcopal Church of Turners Falls
First Congregational Church, Turners Falls
St. Andrews, Turners Falls
St. James Episcopal Church, Greenfield
United Church of Bernardston
Baystate Ambulance Employees-Greenfield
Greenfield High School Honor Society Students
Boy Scout Troops 16 and 5, Greenfield
Girl Scout Troop 40050, Conway
Cub Scout Packs 3 and 367, Greenfield
Greenfield YMCA Leader’s Club, Greenfield
Franklin County Community Meals Program, Greenfield
Food City, Turners Falls
Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Springfield (via Barker Family Trust)
Franklin County Chapter AARP, Greenfield
Elm Terrace Community Group, Greenfield
Greenfield Hi-Risers
Ladies Auxiliary, Montague Elks
Camp Kewanee, Greenfield
Brick House, Turners Falls
Farren Care Center, Turners Falls
Judd Wire, Turners Falls
WHAI- AM.FM Radio, Greenfield
Our Lady of Peace, Turners Falls
The Rosenberg Committee, Amherst
The Recorder, Greenfield
Everett and Janice Hatch of Hatches Patch

I would like to extend a very special thank you to an anonymous donator who has donated a large allotment of food every other week for the past few years. This individual donated 10,668 pounds of food this past year and continues to support us this year. Words cannot express how much our clients have benefited from your continued support.