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1. • • Furniture Bank’s Indigenous-led Workshop partners with employment agencies, offering jobs and comprehensive training. Our woodworking program focuses on repairing and upcycling items, promoting sustainable practices in furniture restoration.
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   What is Furniture Bank's indigenous-led workshop?

   • Furniture Bank’s Indigenous-led Workshop eliminates barriers in to meaningful work by providing trade training, and creating long-term employment opportunities, and providing sustainable careers in the woodworking, refurbishing and reupholstering field.

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   What is a furniture workshop?

   • The Indigenous-led workshop trains participants in furniture repair, upholstery, and woodworking to combat barriers to work. In 2023 the Workshop repaired 2,440 items. Furniture Bank reports that it produced a social return on investment (SROI) value of $5.76 for each dollar donated in 2023.

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   What programs does Furniture Bank offer?

   • Furniture Bank runs three main programs: Homing furniture collection and delivery program, Leg Up social employment program, and its Workshop. A Charity Intelligence 2023 Top 100 Rated Charity Furniture Bank's Homing (75% of program spending) program involves distributing used furniture to clients.

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   What is Furniture Bank's leg up program?

   • Furniture Bank's Leg Up (21% of program spending) social employment program partners with local employment agencies to provide work experience, life and skills training, and meaningful work for those facing barriers to employment. The Leg Up program employed 41 people in 2023.

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   How does Furniture Bank work?

   • Furniture Bank works with economically-vulnerable people, such as families leaving shelters, formerly homeless clients, and newcomers or refugees living in Canada. By collecting and delivering used furniture, the charity states that it redirects waste from landfills while providing furnished homes.

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   What is Furniture Bank?

   • It aims to provide the comfort, dignity, and stability of a furnished home. Furniture Bank works with economically-vulnerable people, such as families leaving shelters, formerly homeless clients, and newcomers or refugees living in Canada.

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   Furniture Bank’s Indigenous-led Workshop eliminates barriers to meaningful work by: Providing trade training. Creating long-term, social employment opportunities for equity-deserving individuals.

   • $104,300 OTF Grant to Scale Indigenous-led Workshop

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   Jul 29, 2024 · TORONTO, ON – Furniture Bank received a $104,300 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to recover from the impacts of COVID-19 by scaling up their Indigenous-led Workshop by doubling equipment and employing more at-risk people to create bedding solutions for clients.

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   TORONTO, ON – Furniture Bank received a $104,300 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to recover from the impacts of COVID-19 by scaling up their Indigenous-led Workshop by doubling equipment and employing more at-risk people to create bedding solutions for clients.

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   Today, on National Indigenous Peoples Day, we are celebrating and thanking the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. Our Indigenous-led Workshop trains...

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   Furniture Bank also has the Workshop program (3% of program spending) and support services (1%). The Indigenous-led workshop trains participants in furniture repair, upholstery, and woodworking to combat barriers to work. In 2023 the Workshop repaired 2,440 items.

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   Aug 15, 2022 · The charity’s indigenous-led workshop supported further furniture refurbishment and the creation of needed coffee tables, dining tables and side tables. The impact reporting model also tracked what was distributed and broke out beneficiary families into target groups such as indigenous, women and children leaving shelters, new immigrants etc.).

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   Furniture Bank’s Indigenous-led Workshop eliminates barriers in to meaningful work by providing trade training, and creating long-term employment opportunities, and providing sustainable careers in the woodworking, refurbishing and reupholstering field.