Home Again’s Purpose

Home Again is a community service project started by Agents and Staff at Prudential Montana Real Estate, aimed at helping the homeless and others in need.

Home Again collects and warehouses furniture, beds, dressers, tables and other basic household necessities such as dishes and silverware, etc. These items often come to us through the real estate transactions we facilitate.

Home Again serves the needs of homeless families and individuals who have been living at transitional housing facilities where furnishings and other household items are provided for them. As they leave these facilities and transition back into mainstream traditional housing, often times they don’t have the basic items that make a house a home. Home Again was created to fill this gap.

Home Again has established relationships with and serves the clients of the following community services:

The Poverello Center: emergency homeless shelter and soup kitchen

The Joseph Residence: transitional housing facility for homeless families with children

The Valor House: transitional housing facility for homeless war veterans

The Uptown and The Palace Apts: transitional housing facility for individuals

The Missoula Housing Authority: assisted housing for over 1200 families in Missoula

The YWCA: transitional housing for women with children in crisis

Guidelines for Donations to Home Again

Most important rule: NO JUNK!

If it’s broken, dirty, ripped, stained, rusty or doesn’t work, it probably belongs at the dump, not in the homes of the people we are trying to serve.

“Dated” is fine, but it needs to be in good condition.

Items we Do want

Beds (including linens and pillows)

Dressers/Chests of Drawers

Living room furniture (couches, love seats, chairs, coffee and end tables)

Lamps

Kitchen and Dining room tables and chairs, hutches

TVs, VCRs, DVD players, stereos

Kitchen Appliances (blenders, toasters, mixers, etc.)

Microwave Ovens

Sets of dishes, glasses, silverware

Pots and Pans

Cooking utensils

Washers/Dryers

Vacuum cleaners

Lawn mowers, weed wackers

Snow shovels

Etc.

Items we Don’t want

Clothes

Toys

Nick Nacks

Books