Warehouse/ receiving considerations.

Anything not already on skids and decently consistent size takes manual labor and extra care storing.

None of the big boy distribution center warehouses you see all over the place will talk to you.

Does the general public drop off? Or by the semi load? Does everything need sorted, stacked on skids, shrink wrapped, and stored? Stored for how long? How many sku’s? (Part numbers). Only 1 sku per skid or mixed? What mode to ship back out? Lots of questions and the more complicated the more expensive.

 

The two warehouses that I deal with, they will tell you … call them and see what they can do to help a charity which r her will explain what their process is. Each one is different and each one deals with different charities.

 

Most wholesale furniture loads unless it’s office equipment is floor loaded not on skids. You’ll want a warehouse with a dock which Any legit warehouse would have I’d think. The warehouse will need people to pull the freight off with hand dolleys. I’m assuming most common will be wholesale full loads coming in, and then small LTL loads going out. Sounds like a neat project if well ran. The donators hopefully will send nice clean loads and not just broken junk, that’ll be important too. Disposal or end recipients getting junk will waste everyone’s time and money.

I mention money a lot because even if your charity is well funded, every wasted dollar is another dollar that doesn’t help someone. So you’ll want to run it like a business, which I’m sure you already know but worth mentioning.

 

Man oh man thats tricky. By " donated" do u mean just any one can donate it, or is there a requirement. New, or still in box?
How much are you expecting? No body wants to unload a trailer of tables by hand. Then restock them in the whare house then restock them in the next trailer.
More info required. I have several years of moving experiance. And thats Problaly not even a grams worth compared to what you will find here.