Find a furniture bank. Or build a better one.

The Furniture Bank Network connects 184 furniture banks and reuse charities across Canada and the United States — with the research, tools and shared standards that help each one furnish more homes.

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I need furniture

Search the directory for a furniture bank serving your city, then contact them directly about their referral process.

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I run a furniture bank

Shared infrastructure, branding, impact reporting, inventory and training through Furniture Banking Support Services.

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I have furniture to move

Office decommissioning, liquidation and reverse logistics — handled by the network, with reusable stock going to families.

Corporate services

I am researching the sector

Articles, data and research on furniture poverty, reuse and the circular economy — written for operators and funders.

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Three pieces worth reading before anything else.

September 13, 2026

For Furniture Banks, Research & Data

Introducing the Impact Measurement Toolkit for Furniture Banks

A free 60-page framework built with thirteen furniture banks across Canada and the US — shared stakeholders, outcomes and indicators, three sample surveys, and a 90-day start plan. Plus the SROI estimator, now live....

July 14, 2026

For Furniture Banks

How a Retailer Mattress-Return Partnership Actually Works

A retailer return pipeline is the single biggest mattress supply route open to a furniture bank. It is also the one with the most administration attached. Here is the full anatomy of one, including the...

May 26, 2026

For Furniture Banks

What Should a Small Furniture Bank Measure First?

TLDR. Six counts, in this order: households furnished, individuals in those households, items delivered, tonnes diverted, agency referrals, volunteer hours. Write down your definition of each one and do not change it. Those six will...

Tools you can use today

SROI Estimator

Enter one year of operating figures and get a forecast social return, a total social value, and a breakdown of where that value lands — clients, donors, agencies or the environment. Pulls out as a one-page PDF you can send to a funder.

Impact Measurement Toolkit

Sixty pages, free. Shared stakeholders and indicators, three sample surveys you can copy, an impact report checklist, and a 90-day plan for a furniture bank measuring nothing today.

Add your voice to the research

We are continuously collecting input from families experiencing furniture poverty, and from the people who run furniture banks, on which household items matter most. It shapes what the network advocates for and what we ask donors to give.

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From the library

Everything the network publishes on furniture poverty, operations and circular reuse.

September 18, 2026

For Furniture Banks, Research & Data

Impact Measurement for Furniture Banks: the Toolkit, the SROI Calculator and Eight Guides

A free 60-page Toolkit built with thirteen furniture banks, a free SROI Forecast Calculator running Furniture Bank Toronto's full model, and eight guides to the questions funders actually ask. All of it built on the...

September 14, 2026

For Furniture Banks, Research & Data

A funder asked for your theory of change. Here is the short way to write one.

If a funder has asked for your theory of change and you do not have one, you do not need six months and a facilitator. You need one sentence. Furniture Bank's is here, along with...

September 13, 2026

For Furniture Banks, Research & Data

Introducing the Impact Measurement Toolkit for Furniture Banks

September 13, 2026

For Furniture Banks

What Do You Do With Furniture Too Damaged to Place?

Every furniture bank takes in items it cannot give a client. Three routes out — repair, recycle, refuse — and the numbers from one bank that has run a repair workshop since 2015....

September 13, 2026

Research & Data

How Do You Prove Your Diversion Numbers Are Real?

Tonnage diverted only counts if the furniture would otherwise have been thrown away. Ask your donors directly — one bank surveyed 415 of them and found the answer that makes the claim defensible....

September 13, 2026

For Furniture Banks

How Much of Your Budget Can Social Enterprise Actually Cover?

One furniture bank reached roughly 80% self-funding. It took twenty-five years, started with a single truck, and changed what the organisation is. The honest version of the earned-revenue question....

Corporate furniture services

When a company needs furniture cleared, the network handles the logistics — and everything still usable goes to a family instead of a landfill.

Liquidation

Turning surplus office furniture into recovered value.

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Decommissioning

Clearing a full office or floor, with diversion reporting.

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Reverse logistics

Returns, take-back and end-of-life handling at scale.

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Build a longer-term reuse programme with the network.

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