About the Nonprofit
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MISSION
The mission of Home Sweet Home is to give under-served families a sense of pride and to improve the quality of their lives by providing basic household furnishings.
VISION
Home Sweet Home uplifts our community and inspires hope by providing every person a bed to sleep in, turning houses into homes.
VALUES
Home Sweet Home is a place where…
Mission is first.
Everyone is respected and treated with dignity.
We thrive on collaboration within the community.
We are caring, compassionate, and kind.
We are a leader among other furniture banks nationwide.
OUR STORY
The idea for Home Sweet Home was born out of a community need. After working at several different nonprofits in the area, founder and executive director Betsy Reznicek realized there was no single agency available to help struggling families with home furnishings as they transitioned into a new home. Organizations would struggle to find a couch for one client, a bed for another, a place to store these items, and a way to transport them once it was located. Betsy knew someone needed to open a furniture bank that could help service clients in the St. Louis area, so she set out to make that happen.
A small group of passionate and motivated community members formed to evaluate the need and explore the possibility of starting the only furniture bank in St. Louis. With a rented truck, borrowed warehouse space, two staff members, and a donation $3,000, Home Sweet Home delivered to its first family in October of 2015.
Through the outpouring of support from this community and the amazing partnerships formed with other nonprofit organizations in the area, Home Sweet Home now serves over 1,000 families (or 2,530 individuals) a year. We run four trucks daily with fifteen staff members and have hundreds of volunteers. Donors keep our 20,000 square foot warehouse packed with gently-used or new furnishings. We’ve re-homed over 450,000 individual household items to families in need.
