Unintentional Pivot, a kids story

After our introduction to the distribution center, the DFW Nonprofit Resource Group pivoted into a conduit for surplus. Ever since I get a call from the distribution center every six to eight weeks. We can’t predict what the surplus will be. So far, we’ve had pallets of food, water, Gatorade, paper products, and baby items. More unique items include furniture, toys, new books, and home furnishings. Another was one hundred new youth suitcases with rollers; these went to five different adoption nonprofits. Each was thrilled for a gift that would allow new kids they serve to carry their belongings in something other than a trash bag. And memorably, we handled a surplus of six pallets of candy bars that enabled a few nonprofits to push forward with a COVID version of trunk-or-treat for Halloween for the kiddos.

Wrapping up 2020, the Resource Group has now connected to the distribution center, a grocery store chain, a mattress company, and a large home furnishing retailer. It’s amazing - a Godwink - what happens when a collection of like-minded people carve out time to be intentionally unique on serving each other and the nonprofits that serve our communities.