Flourish Furnishings

The Sewing Team is looking for willing hands and people who like to re-purpose and re-make things. Carpools may be available, as well as some home-based projects.

Choose from Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday 9:00 am – 12:00pm. Serve once a week or once a month – we need your hands!

Contact serve@flourishfurnishings.org for more information.

Our furnishings ministry has a variety of ways that your group can serve.

• Sponsor a Dresser Build Event (come to our location or offsite for team building activity)
• Sponsor an Essentials Drive Event for items such as kitchen, bath or cleaning packs or blankets, towels or pillows.  (Come to our location or offsite for a team building activity.)
• Organize a Community Canvassing Event to help build awareness for our ministry.
• Onsite serving- personal shopper with clients, work in stockroom and/or showroom, assist the sewing ministry, sorting of donated items, cleaning etc.

Please complete this online request and our volunteer coordinator will be in touch.

Small household items in good condition may be dropped off at the Donation Drop-Off area on the north side of Building B at Church of the Resurrection’s Leawood location. Please label your donation ‘Flourish Furnishings’ and place in the bins marked “Household Goods.” Stickers are available in the drop off area to mark your items.

We are unable to accept items that are torn, stained or in need of repair. Items should be cleaned/laundered prior to donation. Remember, only donate it if you’d give it to your child or neighbor.

The following items are acceptable to be left in the donation area. Please click here for  Flourish_DonationGuidelines.

• Bed linens (please label with the size): Full sets are appreciated if possible
• Kitchen accessories & linens
• Bath accessories & linens
• Dishes, glasses & flatware
• Pots & pans
• Lamps
• Decorative items
• Small appliances like can openers and hand mixers
• Cleaning items

If you have items not on our list, please refer to this link for ways to dispose of your items appropriately.

*Furniture may not be dropped off at church. Please see the Donate Furniture tab for details about drop-off at our new location or scheduling a home pick-up.

Please see Flourish_DonationGuidelines for details about what we accept.

Your donations are designed to go directly to the clients being re-homed after homelessness or catastrophic loss. Our clients generally are starting from scratch. To best serve the needs of our clients we do have size restrictions, please be sure to carefully review.

General Information

Temporarily we are not accepting desks and book shelves due to high inventory and lack of demand.

We are unable to accept items that are torn, stained, or need repair. Our Holy Haulers will examine items before loading/unloading. Please be respectful if we are unable to accept. Remember: please only donate something if you’d give it to your child or neighbor.

Working and non-working appliances are not accepted. We cannot take broken TVs as we have no resources for repairing them. We do not accept any baby items (such as cribs, strollers, pack n plays etc).

DROP OFF Hours

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, 9am-12pm

Our Holy Haulers volunteers are happy to assist with a free pick-up. Schedule a furniture donation pickup online here.

1. Remember to check our list of Flourish_DonationGuidelines prior to completing the pick up request.  In an effort to best serve the needs of our clients we do have restrictions.
2. Please click here for a full list of zip codes in which we are able to pick up.

WE ARE 100% VOLUNTEER RUN, therefore our ability to get your items picked up is dependent upon driver and truck availability. Please note we are generally able to pick up your items in a 1-3 week window. If you are unsure about this timeline working for you, please see the Other Ways to Donate” tab.

We can ONLY pick up items located ground level, in a garage or with elevator access. (Our volunteers cannot move items up and down stairs.)

* DISASSEMLY:  We cannot disassemble furniture. Please take a picture of your item before you disassemble it, and provide the picture and assembly instructions when donating.

Flourish Furnishings works exclusively through case worker referrals from many agencies throughout the Kansas City metro area.  If you need assistance the following organizations have agreed to be published here as a potential resource. 

* Please note we do not guarantee placement with any of the included organizations nor is this a comprehensive list of our partner agencies.

• Academy of Addiction Services
• Accessibility Medical
• Benilde Hall-Safe Haven
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City
• Blue Valley School District Social Workers
• Brothers in Blue Re-entry
• Catholic Charities-St Joe
• City Union Mission
• Community Linc
• Community Services League
• Foster and Adopt Connect
• Front Porch Alliance
• Grooming Project
• Healing House
• Heartland RADAC
• Hillcrest Transitional Housing of Mid America
• Hope House
• Jewish Family Services at the JCC
• Johnson County Interfaith Hospitality Network
• Kansas City CARE Clinic
• Kansas DCF
• KCFootprints-Hero’s Home Gate
• Lighthouse Maternity
• Mother’s Refuge
• ReStart, Inc
• North Heartland Regional Alcohol & Drug Assessment Center
• Rachel House
• ReDiscover
• River of Refuge
• RoseBrooks
• SafeHome
• Salvation Army-Harbor Lights Village
• Salvation Army-SSVF Program
• Save, Inc
• Southview Christian Church, Grandview MO
• Synergy Services, Inc
• Transitions for Life Foundation
• Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health
• Veteran’s Affairs
• Wyandot Center
• YouThrive

We focus on furnishing hope to those in need. Through 100% donated goods, we are able to provide an opportunity for your clients to fully furnish their new homes. Our goal is to ensure that no child or adult in the KC metro area has to live without adequate furnishings.

We provide upholstered furniture, wood furniture, beds, dining tables/chairs, linens, basic cookware/bakeware, dishware/silverware/glassware and other miscellaneous items as they are available.

Our clients can shop for their new furniture and household belongings with dignity. They have the ability to personally select their items, making the transition to their new residence feel like home. Your client will be greeted by volunteers and assigned a personal shopper to assist in the entire process.

Flourish Furnishings is one critical stop on a client’s path to healthy, stable and safe living. We could not serve our mission of “furnishing homes with hope” without your partnership in identifying the clients in need. You are our greatest asset as we locate, connect and serve the basic home essential needs of thousands in the KC metro area.

Nonprofit organizations, faith-based communities and county human services programs are vital to our ability to serve those in need. We only accept referrals from approved agency case workers. Our goal is to ensure that our clients are receiving full wrap-around services as they move toward becoming self-sustaining. We are only one piece to that puzzle. We furnish hope by offering a hand up & not a hand out.

We no longer have a “once in a lifetime served” stipulation. We recognize that there may be extenuating circumstances that may require a client to be seen more than once. We are leaving that vetting process completely up to your case workers.

We have made improvements in our process for inviting, accepting, and training our agency partners/case workers. Each year we send out an annual application to the directors of both existing and potential partner agencies. We want to serve more, and serve them better. All referral/partner information will be accessible on our website throughout the year.

We will accept applications on an ongoing basis and will incorporate those partners based on capacity of the ministry.  We’ve added a partner agency liaison. Having a dedicated team member in this role ensures that your agency is receiving the education and support your case workers need for our partnership to be successful for your clients.

We’ll be holding monthly 1-hour orientations for all referring case workers. This is an opportunity for each of you to visit our location and be fully aware of the expectations and process. Your case worker will be equipped with a client checklist, a list of what your client can expect to receive, as well as additional information that ensures your client has clear expectations and understanding of our process.

Finally, to streamline the process and eliminate barriers we now allow referring agency case workers to self-schedule their client appointments. Your case workers will have an “account” which enables them to have access to all their scheduled appointments for reference, cancellation, or rescheduling.

Ready to become a Referring Agency?

Agency Application Procedures

1. Complete the online application. As a part of the application process review the formal ReferringAgencyGuidelines. Signature of the application indicates understanding and acceptance of the Agency Agreement.
2. Agency director must submit a list of all case workers wishing to make referrals. Only those names submitted by the director will have an account set up for them. When case workers leave or new case workers come on staff, the director must notify us.  The director should email the following information for each case worker to rita@flourishfurnishings.org:
   • Case Worker Name
   • Case Worker Agency/branch
   • Case Worker Email
   • Case Worker Phone
3. A 1-hour orientation is required for any case manger you with to make referrals on behalf of your organization.  Oriention details can be found under Partner Resources & Info.  Orientations will be held the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 9am.
4. Flourish Furnishings will then set up the online referral/appointment system with your caseworkers’ contact information, login and passwords. Each user will receive confirmation and instructions for using the online scheduling system.