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2024-2025 Furnish For Good Annual Report

As we reflect on the past year, this annual report highlights the progress, partnerships, and people who make our work possible. It captures how collective generosity translated into meaningful outcomes for families rebuilding their lives through Furnish for Good. View 2024-2025 Annual Report

Furnish for Good on WCNC’s Charlotte Today

We’re thrilled to share that Furnish for Good was invited to appear on WCNC’s Charlotte Today to spotlight our mission and the impact of our work in the community. During the segment, we discussed how we help families rebuild their lives with dignity, stability, and hope, and highlighted the partnerships, volunteers, and donors who make […]

Inspired spaces by 10 Charlotte interior designers

Furnished 2023: 10 designers create for a cause photographs by Dustin and Susie Peck From dreamy children’s spaces to a retro game room and a ladies’ lounge, 10 talented Charlotte designers brought plenty of creativity and passion to last month’s annual Furnished fundraiser for Furnish For Good. The local nonprofit provides gently used and new […]

LendingTree Foundation Awards $150,000 to Local Nonprofits Through Community Impact Grants

In an effort to empower local nonprofits, the LendingTree Foundation today announced that a one-time Community Impact Grant of $25,000 would be awarded to six Charlotte-based nonprofits, infusing $150,000 into the greater community. This program provides small, one-time grants to founder-led, community-embedded nonprofits that are on their way to making a big difference. This year’s […]

Delivering Design

Over several weeks this summer and fall, 10 of Charlotte’s top interior designers donated their time and talent to Furnished, the second annual fundraising event for Furnish for Good. Started in October 2019 by Priscilla Chapman, Lesley Faulkner and Mary Beth Hollett, the nonprofit provides gently used and new furnishings for individuals and families transitioning […]

Noble Design

Ten Charlotte interior designers create dreamy spaces to help Furnish for Good serve those in need. by Michelle Boudin Maria Lindsay was homeless for 10 years before finally getting a place of her own last year. She moved in with her two children but didn’t have any money left over for furniture. That’s when she […]

Charity showroom helps people out of poverty

The nonprofit sector is tough work, but worth it when you’re making a difference like Lesley Faulkner with Furnish for Good. The organization, which had its first year in 2020, provides furniture and household goods to families who are transitioning out of homelessness or poverty. The south Charlotte mom and Realtor co-founded FFG with Mary […]

Women of Faith

Eighteen months ago, Priscilla Chapman, Lesley Faulkner, and Mary Beth Hollett did not know each other although each had lived in Charlotte for years. Now, it is difficult for them to remember a time when they weren’t talking multiple times on the phone, exchanging emails, and sweating together in a warehouse off of College Street. […]