Making a difference: Corner Cupboard Charities helps fund non-profits

If your New Year’s resolution is to clean out your closets and attic, now is the perfect time to help out the thrift shops in our area that benefit non-profit organizations.

A good example is Corner Cupboard Thrift Shop which gives all of its proceeds to a number of worthy Miami Valley groups.

“Corner Cupboard Charities is a diamond in the rough; it is been a part of the East Dayton committee for over 60 years with a mission to help those in need,” says board volunteer Beth Cloyd. “Second- and third-generation volunteers are now taking over where their mothers and fathers left off.”

Cloyd is a case in point. Her mother was involved with the thrift shop, and Cloyd said she’s helped out since the age of 10.

The shop dates back to 1960, when it was started by 21 women who were responding to a request from Cincinnati’s Glenmary sisters to start a thrift shop that could raise money for missionary work in Appalachia.

“In the later ’60s, due to diversification of their missionary work, very few remain in the Glenmary order, and the Corner Cupboard moved to change its original commitment,” explains Cloyd. ” At that time, she explains, it became a philanthropic organization, with profits going to a variety of regional charities. Some of those include Building Bridges; Catholic Social Services; Greene Country Domestic Violence; Suicide Prevention Center of Southwest Ohio; House of Bread; Glenmary Sisters; Gospel Mission; Epiphany Lutheran Church, Centerville; Shoes for the Shoeless; the Kettering Backpack Program; St. Peters St. Vincent de Paul; Northeast Churches Emergency Center and 10 St. Vincent de Paul Councils.

The Corner Cupboard, located at 34 Pierce St. for more than 50 years, moved into a former A&P grocery store at 504 Xenia Ave. in 2015. “The move has allowed us to expand our store as well as our revenue, therefore allowing donations to go even further in the Dayton area and adding a few other non-profit organizations to our monthly donations,” Cloyd says. “Since the inception of the Corner Cupboard in 1960, we have donated over $3 million to local charities.”

Cloyd said the shop always needs volunteers and can use nearly any item in good condition. It cannot accept computers, mattresses or stuffed furniture.

Here’s what they can use:

• Flat-screen TVs

• Better-quality carpets

• Power hand-held tools

• Mechanical hand tools — saws, hammers, wrenches, toolboxes, etc.

• Wood living room furniture

• Wood bedroom sets

• Wood dining room sets

• Antique items

• Jewelry

• Toys in good condition

• Gloves and scarves

• Purses and luggage

• Shoes and boots

• Pots and pans

• Clothing for men, women and children of all ages

• Pet items

The Corner Cupboard is located at 504 Xenia Ave. in Dayton, across from St. Mary’s Church. Items may be dropped off during business hours: 9:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday. For donation pick-ups, call (937) 252-5491. For more information, see https://sites.google.com/site/cornercupboardthriftstore/


Staff writer Meredith Moss writes about non-profit organizations in the Miami Valley and their specific needs. If your group has a wish list it would like to have included, contact Meredith: MMoss@coxohio.com

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