Help Our Cause

To serve our local community through:

- vouchers for low-income residents and those recovering from crisis, providing clothing and home textiles (application-based, $50 per household member every 6 months);

- emergency financial assistance for those facing a crisis (application-based);

-       emergency warming packs for those without housing;

- learning opportunities through free clothing repair workshops held the first Wednesday and last Saturday of each month, with free access to tools like sewing machines to fix a favorite garment; and

- reduction of textile waste, providing a sustainable alternative for purchasing and directing unsellable garments to a textile recycling stream, keeping clothes out of landfills.

Our dedicated volunteers and small team of part-time staff invest over 500 hours each month to keep our shop running. They sort more than 5,000 pounds of incoming donations monthly, processing thousands of items for our sales floor. Thanks to their hard work, we offer everything from children’s clothing and winter coats to sportswear, business attire, and home linens. We’re open daily from 11 AM to 6 PM (closed Sundays during the winter), and everyone is welcome to stop by! 

 We’re always looking for more passionate individuals to join our volunteer team. Whether you can commit a few hours a month or multiple days a week, your help makes a huge difference in serving our community. If you’re interested, please contact us or drop by during our open hours—we’d love to have you on board! 

Donated clothing and emergency assistance for families have an intertwined history in Forks. In 1955, a Disaster Relief Committee was established under the Forks City Council. The Committee operated on small grants for many years. The process changed in 1976, when a local family of eight lost their home in a fire. The community turned out a huge outpouring of support, including many articles of clothing. Good clothing that the family could not use was returned to Ginger Haberman, the chair of the Disaster Relief Committee at the time, and Ginger stored it in her own home. 

For the next few years, people could drop off and those who needed it could pick up clothing from Ginger’s home. Gradually, that project morphed into the clothing bank, with a dedicated space at 181 Bogachiel Way. 

Operations closed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. But in October 2021, the shop and Relief committee were re-launched by Layla Rawls, Sena Engeseth, Char Weston, Dave Youngberg and Heather Lietzke. In honor of Ginger Haberman, the shop has been re-named Ginger’s Closet.

Church of the Nazarene graciously donated a facility to our organization in 2023. As of, August 25th, 2023, we are operating at 170 Sol Duc Way.