Acceptable Items Include: staples, paperclips, "soft" cardboard (folders), regular paper, accounting & financial, human resource documentation, correspondence, business cards, budgets, blueprints, cds, videotapes, photos, transparencies, diskettes, hard drives, carbon paper

Items Not Accepted Include: Three ring binders, food containers (plates, cups etc.), packaging or wrapping material, newspapers or magazines, paper towels, tissues

Acceptable Items Include: electronic computers, computer monitors, ink jet or laser printers, computer peripherals and loose computer hardware.

Hard drive erasure is available for a fee of $7 (cash). If you would like this service, please attach your name, address, phone number & e-mail address to your computer so that the recycling company can send you a certificate of destruction.

Items Not Accepted Include: electric appliances (refrigerators, microwaves, other appliances such as vacuum cleaners, lighting, analog (non-cellular) telephones, televisions or monitors with broken screens.

Laurel House will collect unwanted cell phones and donate them to women in crisis. Please make sure to erase the memory cards from your phones before donating them.

Career Wardrobe, a non-profit which provides career clothing to women in need will collect interview-appropriate clothing and accessories for women.

Jr. League of Phila. will collect donated items for sale in their Thrift Store in downtown Ardmore store. Proceeds from the store support a variety of projects including Meals on Wheels, Literacy Programs and more.

Cradles to Crayons’ mission is to provide, free of charge, low-income and homeless children from birth to pre-teen the basic essentials they need to be safe, warm, ready to learn, and valued.

• Clothing: bottoms, tops, outerwear, pajamas, accessories. Sizes 0-16. Socks and underwear must be new.
• Shoes: sneakers, sandals, casual and dress shoes, boots. Please attach matched pairs with rubber bands.
• Books: board books, picture books, Easy Readers, coloring books, chapter books. Books in Spanish and French are important for families who speak English as a second language. No explicitly commercial books, please.
• Arts and crafts: beads and jewelry, clay and dough,craft kits, painting, drawing/coloring, paper crafts, stamps, weaving/knitting. All supplies must be new and unused.
• School supplies: backpacks, calendars/planners/journals, notebooks/binders/files, calculators, chalk/ erasers, drafting supplies, maps/globes, rulers, staplers, scissors, writing instruments and supplies. All supplies must be new and unused.
• Baby supplies: feeding, diapering, health and safety, toys, nursery furniture/decorations, bedding. All feeding and diapering supplies must be new and unused.
• Equipment: infant and toddler car seats, pack ‘n plays, swings, bouncy seats, safety gates, high chairs/booster seats, changing tables, cribs/toddler beds/mattresses, excersaucers, strollers. All equipment must be less than 5 years old (verify by inspecting manufacturer’s date), in perfect working order, with manufacturer’s instructions, and all hardware and attachments. Package hardware and attachments in a Ziplock bag and attach to equipment. If batteries are required for operation, please discard old batteries and include new ones.
• Hygiene: soap, shampoo, toothpaste & toothbrushes. All supplies must be new and unused.
• Toys: action figures, scientific and educational toys, bikes/scooters, building sets/blocks/models, dolls, electronics, musical toys, pretend play/dress up, puzzles, games, vehicles, sports equipment. Toys should be cleaned, and contain all pieces and instructions. We do not accept stuffed animals, videos, computer games or violent toys. If batteries are required for operation, please discard old batteries and include new ones.