Canopy Thrift's Fab Fridays combat hunger and homelessness

Welcome back, everyone. Well, Canopy Thrift in Sandy Springs is hosting its annual Fab Friday sale, and proceeds are helping the Community Assistance Center to fight hunger and homelessness, so an amazing cause. And our Chris Rosenthal is joining us out there with a look at what we can find. It looks like Halloween Central. That's where we need to go for our costumes, Chris. Absolutely. Costumes, clothing, furniture, you name it here. This is, they do this Fab Friday every third Friday of the month. They got all kinds of things. Like you said, halloween they even got some some pretty cool socks here uh some great great deals here everything 50 off uh furniture 25 off uh today and so uh but this is all for a uh for a really good cause this is all for the community assistance uh center which does a lot of really great work uh here in the community and to tell us a little bit more about that i have francis horton here and francis Tell me a little bit about Community Assistance Center for those that may not know about it. Well, we appreciate the opportunity. CAC is working in the communities of Sandy Springs and Dunwoody for about 40 years now. Our mission is to prevent homelessness, alleviate hunger, and help our clients to thrive. And everything that you're seeing in here today is all part of funding that operation. It's really a shopping with a purpose. So we provide financial assistance. We provide the thrift store, foodstuffs, adult education, and some career services as well. We have some seasonal programs for our kids. Yeah, you know, in the back, there's also a market there. We work on a mini-market basis where people come in and shop for themselves. It's all free, but they come in and shop for themselves. So mom can figure out what kids would eat, and rather than me deciding, put it in a box and give it to her. And this is for everybody to come shop here, anybody in the community, but also your clients, too. Yeah, this is a retail shop. It's open for business six days a week. We provide our clients vouchers. They can come in and shop using those vouchers and getting clothes and household items for their families, as well as we've got a kid's corner, too. And this generates quite a bit of money each year, huh? It does. Last year, that was about $400,000. All of that goes back into our other programming. So it really is shopping with a purpose. It's more than just buying a $6 pair of pants or a $6 shirt. Yeah, and this stuff, I mean, there's some really nice stuff, some really high-end things here. Yeah, this is our rack where we have our new arrivals as well as brand-new clothing. Many of the items on this rack still have the store tags on them. So we think our thrift store is a little bit different in a boutique sort of style. We make sure that the quality of our goods is as high as we can and make sure our clients are getting the best we can give them. I went back to the back there, and it takes kind of an army of volunteers to get something like this going, huh? It really does. In fact, just for the thrift store operation, we have about 115 volunteers that come in during the week and serve various roles, either here in the showroom or back in the back, processing goods through to make it to the showroom. It takes a lot of people to make it happen. across the organization we use about 526 volunteers a month so it's it's a big operation how's it make you feel when you see all these people here shopping and knowing this for good cause here you know it's amazing because i know that every dollar they spend is going into helping members of our community who are going through a tough time so this right here is is the epitome of you you're buying something for a real purpose you're buying something that's going to make an impact in our community. People want to donate. How can they do that? What are you guys looking for? Well, we have a donation door on the side of the building. You drive all the way around it, you can see it. We open six days a week for donations. Almost all the time, all year round, some of the major items that we need are kids' clothes, men's clothes. We're always short on linens, sheets, towels, curtains, those kinds of things as well. those are all items we always need especially coming up on the winter months we need winter clothes for kids winter clothes for men gotcha that's up here in sandy springs at uh at canopy thrift store off roswell road um you can come on up here shop for a good cause donate items as well um lots going on here and this is over six days a week but again fab friday here great deals 50 off 25 off furniture very nice got a good crowd in there and some good offerings as well worth stopping by chris thank you so much