You Can Help

Donate your used appliance
If you live in Carroll County, Maryland or the surrounding areas,
you can donate your used working appliances. You will receive a donation receipt for your tax purposes.
Refrigerators are badly needed and we will travel further for them. We will also pickup used  model lawn tractors and mowers(working or non-working), but we cannot currently give you a donation receipt for them.
The appliances are shipped to Appalachia but the garden implements are repaired and sold to raise funds.

Donate your Time
If you can assist in moving appliances, that would be great, but we can use help with all activities related to operating a charitable organization.
    Web Site Management
    Fund Raising
    Mailing
    Promoting/Public Relations
    Advertising

 If you live in the Carroll County area of Maryland, Contact Us to Volunteer or to Donate Materials (410) 876-2610

Donate your Money
All charitable organizations need money for gasoline, vehicle maintenance, mailings, legal fees, etc.
Our largest expense is gasoline - it cost us about $15-$20 to pickup and deliver an appliance.

If you can donate funds, please make checks payable to:
    Appalachian Poverty Project
    C/O The Community Foundation of Carroll County
    255 Clifton Blvd. - Suite 203
    Westminster, MD 21158

You will receive a receipt from the foundation

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Special Needs

---A truck is needed for the pickup of appliances, mattresses, building materials, etc. Although we have picked up about 200+ appliances and 75 mattresses, our  pickup truck is proving inadequate for our purposes. Mattresses are very badly needed and we have a great supplier, but we really need an enclosed truck that will carry more than we can fit on a pickup and that will protect the mattresses from the rain. As it is now , we can only pickup on Thursdays and Fridays and then only if the weather is clear. A step van like a bakery truck or small cube van would be ideal.

---Several small trailers are needed for aluminum can recycling.

---Automobiles. We have a regular need for cars and small trucks. These will be given to needy people in McDowell county, West Virginia as a "Stay in School" incentive program and to provide transportation for working parents. Full "fair market value" can be deducted from your taxes.

---A good quality video camera.  We have long desired  to film the poverty conditions in Appalachia.  There are many folk's who will listen  to a  presentation  about these conditions, but people today want to see video. We believe that this project is an essential component in raising funds and attracting mission work teams to come to Appalachia. There are several exciting projects that will soon start in McDowell County - some include the renovation of an old church and the "upgrading" of an entire community of about 100 homes (Extreme Makeover  Neighborhood Edition)