• Creating a public “information center” about Quakers; a public outreach by Quakers to seekers
• Providing our locality a Quaker place for community service and volunteering
• Encouraging recycling by providing donated thrift items at very low prices
• Helping provide food to hungry local children by partnering with Backpacks of Love as a donation center
• Helping provide food to impoverished local families by partnering with Bethel Baptist Church as a donation center for their Food Pantry
• Giving approximately $1000 to $5000 each and every month to a different charity that has no religious or political agenda (twelve charities receive grants every year!)
• Spot-lighting twelve charities every year by supplying the community with information about them on The Thrifty Quaker bulletin board.
• Working with trusted Social Services agencies and local Quakers to provide Friend$hare emergency funding to non-Quakers who are in danger of losing their home, health, transportation, utilities, or livelihood (approximately a total of $5000 in cash given away every year!)
• Partnering with Rock Church to help victims of addiction by giving our surplus thrift items for resale at their thrift store
• Partnering with Powhatan Community Church by giving our surplus thrift items for resale in order to fund service projects to impoverished villages in Nicaragua
• Providing free clothing and household items to local victims of fire, theft, and poverty

Thank you, Richmond Friends, for making all of this possible by donating and shopping at The Thrifty Quaker. Please tell your friends and family about us! 13567 Midlothian Turnpike, Midlothian VA 23113 804 794-7158   www.ThriftyQuaker.com

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