Making-It-Home’s mission is to provide a comfortable home environment to individuals moving from
emergency shelter to new apartments. We
partner with local civic organizations, corporations and individuals who volunteer
their time and transportation to get donated furniture where it is needed most. Recently, two grateful clients volunteered to
“Pay It Forward” and use their own muscle to make new clients’ apartments feel
like home. 
Jason,
an Army veteran, left emergency shelter, secured a new apartment in Hasbrouck
Heights and enrolled in school to complete his Bachelor’s degree. When we connected with him to discuss his
furniture needs, he told us he was pretty strong and also wanted to volunteer
for Making-It-Home. Mike, another
Making-It-Home client, also wanted to “pay-it-forward” after receiving
furniture from the program in 2016. On
February 7th Jason and Mike arrived at the Westy storage unit ready
to work. They loaded furniture from the
unit into our rental truck and traveled to Upper Saddle River to pick up some
more. From there, we traveled to
Garfield and Hasbrouck Heights to furnish two apartments, and then returned to
Westy to store the remaining pieces. In
total, our client volunteers moved 20 pieces of furniture, including 3 sofas,
that day! 
Jason
returned on Valentine’s Day for a full day of donation pick-ups! He and another volunteer, Craig, collected 17
pieces of furniture from 4 homes throughout Bergen County, filling the truck to
the top, and moved the pieces into our storage unit. This furniture is now ready to distribute to
future clients.
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