Clothing Drive
This year, The Market on 6th Ave is partnering with The Clothing Exchange to provide clothes directly where they are needed most - to the clothing closets at The Tacoma Rescue Mission for our neighbors without homes.
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Please bring your clean ready-to-wear or ready-to-mend donations to the Clothing Drive Bin at The Market on 6th Ave any scheduled Market Day: the first and second Saturday of each month May-Sept.
Please bring your clean and unwanted, holey, or broken clothing to The Market on 6th Ave at:
2202 6th Ave Tacoma, WA 98405
every 1st and 2nd Saturday May-Sept 2024
to be mended by volunteers
and then donated to the clothing closets
at The Tacoma Rescue Mission
May 4 • May 11 • June 1 • June 8
July 6 • July 13 • August 3 • August 10
September 7 • September 14
Please WASH all clothing prior to donating!
Our Process
Clothes are Donated
You bring us your clothing donations, washed and ready to wear. It's okay if your donation needs a little mending - we'll fix it before we donate it to the Rescue Mission!You can bring your clothing donations to The Market on 6th Ave on any scheduled Market Day.
Clothes are sorted
The Clothing Exchange picks up all of the donations at the end of the Market Day and sorts them by size, type, and whether or not it needs to be mended.
Common categories include children's, winterwear, and adult clothing. Some clothing donations go to a Back-to-Work program, which provides workwear and interview clothes to people who need them.
Clothes are mended
The Clothing Exchange works with volunteer sewists to mend donations that need it. That can include fixing hems, closing holes, or sewing buttons, among many other things.
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We want to ensure all recipients of these donations feel good wearing them.
Clothes are added to the Clothing Banks
The clean, sorted, mended donations are then brought directly to the Rescue Mission Receiving Center, where they are made available in the Clothing Closets for the residents and clients of the Rescue Mission.
This whole process is managed by volunteers, and no money ever exchanges hands. This is a community service provided by The Clothing Exchange to both keep clothes out of landfills and help provide much-needed support to our neighbors experiencing homelessness.
Seeking Sewists!
We have had a beautifully large response to our clothing drive, and we could use a few extra hands helping to mend all of these wonderful donations!
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Whether you are best with machine sewing or hand sewing, we would love your volunteer assistance in making sure all of our donations make it to the Tacome Rescue Mission in good condition. You don't have to be a professional to join us! If you can already sew a basic patch, we will help you learn more along the way.
If you are looking for something good to do in your free time, please fill email us at TheMarketon6thAve@gmail.com to contact us for more information. Thank you!
Most-Needed Items
The Clothing Exchange accepts any and all clothing donations, and specialize in rehabilitating clothing with holes or damage prior to donating them to The Tacoma Rescue Mission. The Clothing Exchange ensures that all donations go directly to clothing banks available to the people who need them most - our neighbors experiencing homelessness.
Some clothing items that are most needed by The Tacoma Rescue Mission include:
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Socks
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Pants
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Shirts
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Coats/Sweaters
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Jackets
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Rain Gear
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Thermal Wear
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Underwear
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Gloves, Hats, Scarves
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Shoes