A truckload full of practically brand-new Ashley Furniture rolled up to 41st Street and Green Tree Road in Milwaukee late last week. “This furniture is brand new, wow someone’s really going to like this,” Frank Penigar Jr. with Partners In Hope said. Partners In Hope works with Community Warehouse, a discounted home improvement supply store, to help people recently released from prison.The organization was one of 19 Milwaukee-area non-profits to receive furniture donated by Ashley Home Stores of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee 2024 Host Committee. “The host committee was lucky enough to be the recipient of a really large furniture donation,” Alison Prange, President and COO of the Milwaukee 2024 Host Committee said.The four semi-truck loads of items donated by Ashley Furniture were used in temporary housing for RNC staff and convention spaces in and around Fiserv Forum.”Any local organization that’s in need of furniture, desks, outdoor furniture and such we’re here to donate it all,” Bill Fonti, CEO of Ashley Home Stores of Wisconsin told 12 News in July days ahead of the RNC.When WISN 12 News first reported on the story hundreds of non-profit organizations across the region reached out to organizers interested in receiving a donation. One of those organizations was Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee. “We went through the process with the host committee, you know, filled out the application, and a month or two later we heard favorably and 30 pieces of great new furniture were delivered last week,” Neil Willenson, President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee said. The organization received couches, chairs and tables to use in their new Mentor Zone, a converted space at Jefferson and Wells Streets where participants and their mentors can gather and learn. “It makes this place so much more welcoming, so much more fun and comfortable for the children,” Willenson said. Community Warehouse received couches, patio furniture, TVs, lamps and more.”We do have people that come out of the correction system that just don’t have anything, don’t have a place to stay or have a home, but they may get an apartment and they may need a piece of furniture here or there. That’s where Community Warehouse comes into play,” Penigar said. Furniture that will change lives right here in Milwaukee. “I’m just looking forward to seeing somebody’s face when they come and pick it up… this is a blessing,” Penigar said. The host committee says they received 50 applications. Non-profit organizations had to be in good financial standing to be considered. Seventeen non-profits in Milwaukee County and two in Waukesha County were gifted furniture.
A truckload full of practically brand-new Ashley Furniture rolled up to 41st Street and Green Tree Road in Milwaukee late last week.
“This furniture is brand new, wow someone’s really going to like this,” Frank Penigar Jr. with Partners In Hope said.
Partners In Hope works with Community Warehouse, a discounted home improvement supply store, to help people recently released from prison.
The organization was one of 19 Milwaukee-area non-profits to receive furniture donated by Ashley Home Stores of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee 2024 Host Committee.
“The host committee was lucky enough to be the recipient of a really large furniture donation,” Alison Prange, President and COO of the Milwaukee 2024 Host Committee said.
The four semi-truck loads of items donated by Ashley Furniture were used in temporary housing for RNC staff and convention spaces in and around Fiserv Forum.
“Any local organization that’s in need of furniture, desks, outdoor furniture and such we’re here to donate it all,” Bill Fonti, CEO of Ashley Home Stores of Wisconsin told 12 News in July days ahead of the RNC.
When WISN 12 News first reported on the story hundreds of non-profit organizations across the region reached out to organizers interested in receiving a donation. One of those organizations was Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee.
“We went through the process with the host committee, you know, filled out the application, and a month or two later we heard favorably and 30 pieces of great new furniture were delivered last week,” Neil Willenson, President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee said.
The organization received couches, chairs and tables to use in their new Mentor Zone, a converted space at Jefferson and Wells Streets where participants and their mentors can gather and learn.
“It makes this place so much more welcoming, so much more fun and comfortable for the children,” Willenson said.
Community Warehouse received couches, patio furniture, TVs, lamps and more.
“We do have people that come out of the correction system that just don’t have anything, don’t have a place to stay or have a home, but they may get an apartment and they may need a piece of furniture here or there. That’s where Community Warehouse comes into play,” Penigar said.
Furniture that will change lives right here in Milwaukee.
“I’m just looking forward to seeing somebody’s face when they come and pick it up… this is a blessing,” Penigar said.
The host committee says they received 50 applications. Non-profit organizations had to be in good financial standing to be considered. Seventeen non-profits in Milwaukee County and two in Waukesha County were gifted furniture.
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