Gill Bros. Donates $30K in Mattresses

January 2, 2011  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Community/Charitable Support on January 3, 2011

Furniture retailer Gill Brothers Furniture has donated more than $30,000 in mattresses to A Better Way of Muncie, Ind.

A Better Way provides shelter and services for victims of domestic violence.

In years past, Gill Brothers Furniture, also of Muncie has donated 10 percent to 15 percent of profits to local social service agencies. But this year the retailer did something different: When the store noticed mattresses left over from last year, instead of throwing them out the retailer donated them to A Better Way.

"This has been so exciting," said Christina Kelley of A Better Way. "It's definitely been a unique way to experience Christmas this year. To know that there are companies who care so much about our agency and the women we serve that they would do this ... says something about Gill Brothers and everyone else who helps us."

Kelley explained that some of the woman who received a mattress had been sleeping on beds with stains on them, mattresses with holes or slashes covered with tape. Now, they spent Christmas sleeping safely on a new, comfortable mattress.

"It feels good (to do this)," said Steve Gill of Gill Brothers Furniture. "We knew A Better Way would get these items to people who really need them. And they have."