We accept donations of personal care products, and other items!
To learn about donating food, click here
Seasonal Donations
From now until November 12th, we are accepting donations for our Winter Coat Drive & Giveaway! Donate new and gently used winter coats, scarves, hats, mittens, gloves, & boots for all ages. The giveaway is primarily for adults.
From now until December 31st, we are accepting donations for our Holiday Gift Program! Donate BRAND NEW books, games, toys, and warm winter accessories (mittens, hats, gloves) for ages 0-17.
Personal Care Items
The Amherst Survival Center’s Food Pantry distributes unopened personal care items.
You can bring your donations to the Center during the Center’s open hours, or ship donations to the Center (138 Sunderland Road, PO Box 9629, North Amherst, MA 01059). Donations can include complimentary hospitality sizes. Please make sure that donations are unopened so that we can distribute them through the Food Pantry.
Personal care items include:
- Toothbrushes
- Toothpaste
- Soap
- Shampoo
- Deodorant
- Baby and adult diapers (bags can be opened in some cases)
- Menstrual products (tampons and sanitary pads) (bags can be opened in some cases)
- Toilet paper
We encourage drives for a variety of personal care items.
We’re grateful to the women’s sports teams, book clubs and clubs that have initiated drives for feminine products, and welcome these drives. See this January 2015 column on the economic burden for so many women of affording feminine menstrual products. If you’d like to hold a menstrual product drive, contact the Center’s Pantry Manager.
Diaper drives
You can hold a diaper drive in your workplace, your school, your place of worship, your organization! The Food Pantry distributes diapers to families with babies, and the distribution is equivalent to the Pantry’s food allocation.
Currently, the Pantry can always use diapers sizes 4, 5, and 6, and diaper wipes. Feel free to reach out to our Food Pantry Coordinator at pantry@amherstsurvival.org, x104 to access more information.
We do not accept donations of used clothing, household items, or furniture.
For information on the Center’s previous community store program, see here.
We recommend contacting the Hartsprings Foundation at 413-650-5204 or www.donatehartsprings.org. Their purpose is funding Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring programs in MA and CT.
Other options include: Hospice Shop of the Fisher Home and Cancer Connection Thrift Shop.
You can donate/receive used clothing, household items, and furniture via these sites:
Buy Nothing Amherst and Surrounding Towns
Craigslist
Freecycle
