Ashley Furniture Homestore Donates Mattresses

July 17, 2011  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Community/Charitable Support on July 18, 2011

Ashley Furniture Homestore's "A Hope to Dream" program has teamed with United Way of Dane County, Wis., to provide 17 new mattress sets to families in need.

As part of the local United Way's Housing First Challenge, which helps homeless families find stable, permanent housing, an Ashley truck packed with brand new mattresses made its way to a Madison, Wis., apartment complex on July 14, where a team of United Way and Ashley volunteers unloaded and delivered the new beds to awaiting families.

"Some of these families were actually forced to sleep on winter coats on the floor. It was just heartbreaking," says John Disa, President of Ashley Homestores Ltd. "Since 2010, Ashley Furniture HomeStore's A Hope To Dream program has provided less-fortunate kids with new mattress sets of their very own. Teaming up with United Way of Dane County for this Housing First Challenge was yet another way to give families and children in need access to one of their most basic rights: the right to a safe, comfortable place to rest their heads."

For more information about the A Hope to Dream program or to nominate a child in need for a new bed, click here  or "friend" Ashley Furniture Homestores on Facebook and follow the link under the Community tab.