Donating

Get your company involved

We are looking for donations of all types of home goods, including furniture, bedding, dishware, and artwork. Housing Works will be glad to schedule a complimentary pick-up of your generously donated items.

To donate, please call Mel Alvarez at 718-838-5051. All donations are tax-deductible.

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All proceeds from Design on a Dime go to Housing Works, the nation’s largest grassroots AIDS service organization. Founded in 1990, Housing Works provides lifesaving services to homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS. Since 2005, Design on a Dime has raised more than $2 million in support of Housing Works.

Design on a Dime 2010 benefits Housing Works’ 874 Jefferson Avenue Residence Project. A new housing development project consisting of 12 permanent units of supportive housing for single, formerly homeless adults living with HIV/AIDS, the Jefferson Avenue Residence Project will involve the substantial renovation of a three-story brick building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

874 Jefferson Avenue will incorporate many sustainable design and construction techniques, including no-VOC paints and adhesives, floor tiles made of 85% quartz and other recycled materials, and furniture made with recycled plastics. Like all of our housing facilities, the 874 Jefferson Avenue Residence will be designed to be a place where residents will want to live, not a place of last resort.

Photos from last year