St. Pauly Textile News & Impact Updates
St. Pauly Textile is on a mission to make clothing donation simple, accessible, and meaningful.
Through our network of clothing donation sheds, we’ve helped thousands of donors recycle textiles and give their clothing a second life; while creating real community impact for the local organizations we partner with.
Browse our latest news and updates below to see how clothing donation and textile recycling are making a difference across the country.
Dropbox Helps All Involved
Holy Trinity Church in Webster and St. Michael's Church in Lyons recently joined a group of 16 other parishes and Catholic schools that have found a creative way to serve others while raising funds at the same time. Within the past year, both of these parishes decided to locate a St. Pauly Textile...
Library Taking Used Clothing Donations
WARWICK, RI — Bring used clothing to Warwick Public Library’s central branch.wood-frame clothing donation shed for distribution to the needy by St. Pauly Textile Inc. St. Pauly Textile Inc. has partnered with the library to provide the shed, designed to give community members...
VFW Post partners with local business for year-round clothing drive
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 152 is starting a year-round clothing drive to benefit local families or individuals, said Commander David Ainslie. Post 152 has partnered with the Carriage Inn, 1065 Tower Hill Road, where the collection box will be located, and St. Pauly...
Project Synergy collaborates to help UV community and beyond
An effort led in part by UV students is helping to provide gently used clothing and other items for our school community and the greater region. Project Synergy and Habitat for Humanity are partnering with St. Pauly Textile Inc. to provide a wood-frame clothing drop-off shed for community...
For some Rhode Island veterans, service never stops even after you stop serving.
For some Rhode Island veterans, service never stops even after you stop serving. That's why a group in Burrillville have made it their new mission to make sure those less fortunate in their community have a closet full of clothes to wear. For a few years now, the American Legion Post 88 off...
International used clothing company operating locally
St. Pauly Textile Inc. maintains two donation sheds in town as part of its effort to distribute garments to more than 44 countries worldwide. St. Pauly Textile Inc. has maintained a donation bin, which are affectionally referred to as “sheds,” at North Valley for a couple of years, but added one...
New used-clothing donation shed comes to Salem church
Need to clean out your closet? Used clothing can find a new home through Redeemer Lutheran Church's new donation drop-off shed. St. Pauly Textile, the company that operates the shed, will distribute the donated clothes to areas in need nationally and internationally. The box was delivered almost...
Gardiner Transfer Station and Recycling Center covers all the angles
At a time when increasing fees charged to Ulster County transfer stations are causing town officials to contemplate difficult options — raising permit fees, consolidation with other towns or even closing altogether — the Town of Gardiner’s transfer station is not only in the black, it’s thriving....
Batavia club on mission to collect recycled clothing
Quota Club in Batavia is St. Pauly Textile Inc.'s longest standing affiliation. When Quota first started collecting used textiles, club president Elizabeth Weber kept them in her garage until St. Pauly Textile Inc.’s truck could pick them up. The project grew so much, St. Pauly Textile Inc....
Used Clothing Shed Benefits Many
This is one shed that has generated no controversy. In fact it creates only goodwill while enabling local residents to help those in need. The shed in question is located at St. Mary-in-the-Highlands Episcopal Church in Cold Spring — a used clothing shed operated by St. Pauly Textiles Inc., a...
Harmony Baptist Church in Tallmadge provides clothes donation sheds to the community
The churches receive 4 cents for every pound of clothing collected, and some donations will be used in Harmony's Helping Hands clothing giveaway ministry. Harmony's Helping Hands was created in 2011 in order to reach out to the community. Pastor Josh Deeter said all funds received from the...
Pioneer Grange opens shed to collect clothing
Pioneer Grange in Ridgefield, has the distinction of being selected as Washington’s first of many sites for used clothing collection bins to be placed in local communities. According to Pioneer Grange project coordinator Dave Palenshus, “What is important to note about this particular program is...
South Abington Elementery School partners with St. Pauly Textile Inc.
The South Abington Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) has found a way to teach students about the importance of helping others, while helping their own school in the process. St. Pauly Textile Inc. installed a clothing collection shed at the South Abington Elementary School Oct....
Clothing collection to help church campers from Albion area
ALBION -- Your old clothes could help children go to summer camp. Albion Church of the Nazarene has become a drop-off location for used clothing through St. Pauly Textile Inc. The Farmington, N.Y., company sends the clothing to people who can use it and gives the church cash, which the...
Local church now accepting clothing donations
Lakeshore Assembly of God Church, at 252 E. Main Street, in Westfield, is now hosting the Westfield location of the St. Pauly Textile Inc's clothing drop-off shed. Items dropped off in the shed (in the church's rear parking lot) will be distributed to people who can use them in the United States...
Clothing shed benefits Scouts
Recently, St. Pauly Textile Inc. installed one of its clothing collection sheds at the Dallas Baptist Church for the community to use as a drop off for clothing. The clothing will be distributed all over the United States and world to those who can use it. Cub Scout Pack 241 will maintain the shed...