The Sharing Place Thrift Shop offers the Northeast Florida community an opportunity to find great buys while helping people in need. Operated by Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida (LSS), The Sharing Place offers household goods, furniture, office equipment, knick-knacks, collectibles, appliances, clothes, jewelry, and more for sale. Purchases will provide much-needed revenue to fund programs and services of LSS to help the people we serve.

People can donate to help The Sharing Place as well. Some of the items donated to The Sharing Place will be used to help refugees and their families who have arrived in the United States with little or nothing and people helped by Lutheran Social Services’ AIDS Care & Education Program.

The Sharing Place is located at Lutheran Social Services’ main offices, 4615 Philips Highway, between University Boulevard and Emerson Street, with the store's entrance off Hudnall Road.

Program at a Glance
Manager: Lanny Schulz (lshulz@lssjax.org)

Program founded: 2008

2008-09 Expenses: $117,542

2009-10 Budget: $136.362

Employees: 2

Hours of Operation: Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For Information: call 904.446.9560

To Make a Donation: call Linda Hale, 904.448.5995

Fax: 904.446.9561

2008-09 Notables
• The Sharing Place provided $31,484 in merchandise to the Refugee and Immigration Services program to assist in resettling refugees during the 2008-09 fiscal year. The items provided by the Sharing Place included mattresses, box springs, bed frames, kitchen tables, kitchen chairs, sofas, love seats, side chairs, cribs and lamps.

• The Sharing Place continued to place an emphasis on marketing in 2009, adding additional roadside signage to teh area, in addition to enhanced web-based marketing techniques - including the development of an e-newsletter that is distributed monthly to a client database and placing a listing of items on Craig's List, a free web-based classified advertising service.