OUR STORES

We opened our first thrift store in 1988 and now have four stores throughout North Carolina—Raleigh, Garner, Durham, and Fayetteville. To find the store nearest you, visit our store location pages.

OUR BENEFICIARY

Effective January 2008, American Way Thrift Stores are proud to partner with the N.C. Children's Promise, the fundraising arm of North Carolina Children's Hospital. You can feel good about your thrift store donation or purchase, knowing that proceeds from the sale of the donated items help the more than 60,000 children that visit N.C. Children's Hospital each year for medical treatment and care.

Keep an eye on your mailbox. You will receive a yellow postcard notice alerting you when our trucks will be in your neighborhood. Or you can call our Donation Services Line to schedule a pick-up at your convenience: (877) 543-7022 or (919) 832-KIDS.

THERE ARE THREE WAYS YOU CAN HELP

North Carolina Children's Hospital prides itself on its commitment to provide the highest quality, family-centered care to its patients from all 100 counties throughout North Carolina, regardless of their families' abilities to pay. Health care is expensive, especially for children with chronic and/or complex medical problems. You can help in several ways:

1. Donate quality household goods and gently used clothing and shoes. We need items ranging from electronics such as televisions and computers (in good working order) to furniture and houseware. We are also especially in need of clothing and shoes in all sizes for both children and adults.

NOTE: Due to overwhelming response in support of this new partnership, we have experienced an unexpected 60 percent increase in donation volume. THANK YOU! While we've occassionally been forced to leave some donations behind to collect the following day, we are working to address these challenges. Please call our Donation Services Line at (877) 543-7022 or (919) 832-KIDS with questions or to report a missed pick-up.

2. Shop in our thrift stores. Increasing revenues at our stores helps us maintain our contributions to the N.C. Children's Promise.

3. Volunteer! Our volunteer program is set up to assist our stores and help our local communities. Click HERE to sign up or to have your questions answered.

** All Donations Tax Deductible **

The types of items you can donate and find at our stores are:

GO GREEN!

American Way Thrift Stores' primary goal, of course, is to give others the opportunity to re-use your unwanted items and then use the proceeds to benefit our community. By additionally recycling the merchandise we cannot sell, however, we are diverting hundreds of thousands of items from our local landfill each year. (Click HERE to view our 2007 recycling figures.)

Our efforts to be environmentally conscious extend beyond our recycling program to our fleet of service vehicles. We are proud that all of our trucks are powered by locally-purchased biodiesel fuel—a cleaner-burning diesel fuel made from natural, renewable sources such as vegetable oil.