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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Helping a nonprofit could get you thousands of dollars
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) —If you want to test your luck and help a nonprofit this week, there's the perfect opportunity coming up for you. The Furniture Mission works hard to get people the things they need to furnish their homes. While many people donate furniture as a way to help, there's another way you can help, that could also benefit you in the end. Duffy, Kelly to fill school board seats 'Chase the Queen is a newer event to the furniture mission. We did it a couple of years ago at Golf Addiction. This year we are blowing it out of the water. It is sponsored by Mattress Firm, and it is hosted at the Crowbar on Minnesota Avenue,' Furniture Mission executive director/CEO, Janean Michalov said. 'You get to come and buy raffle tickets for your opportunity to draw a card if your raffle ticket is drawn, then you get to be the one who chooses the card that night. You have the opportunity to win 10% of the pot that night, and then the opportunity to win half of the whole pot,' Mattress Firm, franchise owner/board treasurer at Furniture Mission, Paul Hollister, said. So far, the jackpot is over $30,000. 'There are 33 cards left in the deck. The jokers are included in this deck because The Crow Bar has decided to also, if you draw a joker, give a $50 gift card to the winner,' Michalov said. Money raised during the event will go to help the Furniture Mission purchase a new moving truck. 'We're down. We had about four trucks for the last few years, and a blown motor took us down to three,' Michalov said. 'And that's huge for us because, not only do we go out and we pick up furniture, but we also deliver furniture to those who don't have an ability to pick it up themselves,' Hollister said. The drawings happen every Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Crow Bar & Casino Lounge, but you don't have to be present to win. Click here for more information. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Business
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Spring cleaning brings more donations to Furniture Mission
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — The Furniture Mission in Sioux Falls is hoping the public will be as generous as ever this year when it comes to donating furniture for people in-need. The faith-based non-profit is waiting to see what kind of impact, if any, a new round of tariffs could have on donations. Lee Berens is dropping off a trailer full of office furniture at the Furniture Mission. 'If somebody's got a need for it, it's better to have them take it instead of throwing it in the dumpster, I guess,' Berens said. 3% value cap isn't for individual homes in SD Spring cleaning projects bring in more donations to the Furniture Mission at this time of year. 'Spring cleaning is the height of donation season for the organization. So, yes, we definitely see a lot more during that spring cleaning season,' Furniture Mission CEO Janean Michalov said. Mattresses and box springs are always in high demand at the Furniture Mission. This area of their warehouse was full this morning. By mid-afternoon, it's nearly empty. 'Sioux Falls continues to kind of be on that top places to live list throughout the country. And so as people are migrating here, sometimes they're leaving everything behind just to get to Sioux Falls and set up a household. So we're here to help give them that additional uplift by providing furniture to those families,' Michalov said. President Trump's tariffs could make items like new furniture more expensive to purchase. But the Furniture Mission says they haven't seen any signs so far that people are reluctant to donate because they want to hang onto the furniture they have. 'I'm assuming just like everything else, it could be a potential for us. But God is faithful and the Furniture Mission is a Christian-based organization, so we know that His plans are greater than any tariff that could be put on any organization,' Michalov said. The Furniture Mission set a record last year for the number of families it served at more than 2-thousand households. And with uncertain economic times ahead, people in the community want to do their part to help even more families this year. 'Because everything is so expensive, so I mean, the need to donate now is better than ever,' Berens said. The Furniture Mission will be hosting its annual Chairity Gala on April 15th where people can bid on selected items that have been donated over the past year. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
