Donating suits and dress clothing

Anyone know where I can donate men's suits and dress clothing?

I drove them into NYC (City Hall area) and donated them on one particular date to a great charity that was like "Dress for Success" for men.  I will try and find the name if you are interested.

For the very first time EVER  I happened to receive an email from the organization that I donated to just this afternoon!  It is called Career Gear.  Great group! 

http://careergear.org/get-involved/donate-clothing/

http://careergear.org/

any recommendations

Men's Wearhouse runs a suit drive in June and July.

(FYI, for women's professional clothing, the Essex County section of the New Jersey Council of Jewish Women runs a Career Closet in Livingston.)

Although Career Gear sounds great it is too inconvenient for my situation.  A friend's husband recently passed and has about a dozen suits to donate.

Any more local suggestions?

I am sorry to hear about your loss, EBennett. For that many suits, Career Gear, which accepts donations by mail or other courier, may be able to help out with shipping costs. 

40 Fulton Street, Suite 701New York, NY 10038(212) 577-6190

I am also looking for a place to donate lots men's clothing, both more formal business attire and casual clothing.  Carting it all into the City is not an option since it would take many trips.  My go to source will likely be the VA or Vietnam Veterans though I have put out other feelers.  There is plenty to go around.  If anyone knows of a more local need, please post here or PM.  I will be following this thread.  TIA!

rbowman16:  I did find a local source for donating shoes.  The shoes were accepted by a friend who posts on MOL.  The donated shoes will be sent to Africa where they will be given to persons who have no shoes to protect them from foot injury and diseases resulting from parasites that enter the body through the soles of the feet. Please PM if you want contact information.  My friend lives in Maplewood near Clinton School so pick-up/delivery will be easy.

Goodwill Express located on Morris Avenue between Dunkin Donuts and Bed Bath and Beyond in Springfield accepts clothing and shoes.  The staff will help you unload your car and will provide you with a receipt for tax purposes.

If it is important to you that the clothing you donate be used or resold as clothing, please investigate the charity. While I don't object to for-profit textile recycling (for rags, insulation and upholstery, with proceeds benefiting various causes), which is where most donated clothing in this country winds up, it is not what many donors imagine will happen to their clothing.

http://www.vice.com/read/what-actually-happens-to-donated-clothes

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/where-does-discarded-clothing-go/374613/

Infoseeker said:

Goodwill Express located on Morris Avenue between Dunkin Donuts and Bed Bath and Beyond in Springfield accepts clothing and shoes.  The staff will help you unload your car and will provide you with a receipt for tax purposes.

Agreed...I'm more than happy to give clothes to them, knowing that they will sell them in their stores, where someone who needs a bargain can find one.  

I'm also OK with the idea that they do what they can with the stuff that isn't good enough to resell, even including selling to rag recyclers...some of the clothing that we donate is pretty well worn-out when we are done with it.  Even rag recycling is better than the dump.

For me, that and a tax deduction suffices...I don't have more time to spend sending different types of clothing donations to multiple destinations.

I've researched the career clothes donations before, and found the number of hoops they set to be too much for my household clean-out needs, although I love the cause.

j_r, thanks for the links.  I really like these articles, which highlight that the issue is NOT that charities recycle the clothes they cannot sell, but that consumers of ever-more-disposable clothing are throwing far too much of it into the waste stream rather than making sure it is either re-worn or recycled.

j_r said:

If it is important to you that the clothing you donate be used or resold as clothing, please investigate the charity. While I don't object to for-profit textile recycling (for rags, insulation and upholstery, with proceeds benefiting various causes), which is where most donated clothing in this country winds up, it is not what many donors imagine will happen to their clothing.

http://www.vice.com/read/what-actually-happens-to-donated-clothes


http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/where-does-discarded-clothing-go/374613/

Most of the good clothing donated to the VA Vets ends up in the Red, White & Blue thrift stores (there are a handful of these stores in NJ).  They do carry men's & women's work wear at these stores.  And the Vets pick up at your house.  They are typically in/around Maplewood 2x/month based on the emails I get from them.