Our Place Community Outreach

Our clothing and household necessities center offers clothing, shoes, bedding, and small houseware items for anyone in need, with no documentation needed. Everything we do is dependent on donations that come in, and we deeply appreciate our community support in keeping our clothing center supplied! Our greatest consistent needs are men's clothing, shoes, and warm clothing during the winter months. Last year we distributed 50,100 articles of clothing and 9,001 household items as well as 10,000 pairs of bombas socks.

Our personal hygiene center distributed 136,700 personal care products including, toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, laundry soap, combs, bar soap, hand sanitizer, baby wipes, adult diapers, layettes and makeup. We invite one household at a time into our foyer to shop our table for fun hair and makeup items while a volunteer fills their order of basic hygiene items. Through partnerships and your independent donations, we provide basic hygiene items to our neighbors in need from all over spokane!also included in our hygiene center is our laundry center where 840 loads of laundry were done last year. Our laundry center offers three washers and four dryers, available for use free of charge on a first-come, first serve basis. Our place provides detergents and invites households of 1-2 folks to do up to two loads a week, and households of three+ to do up to four loads a week. Our laundry center is open three days a week.

Our place's emergency relief work goes beyond our walls as we help folks get to where they need to go! Each wednesday and thursday, 20 all-day bus passes are available during service on a first-come, first serve basis through our food distribution line. We distributed 2,350 all-day bus passes in 2023.

Our utility assistance program distributed $20,000 in emergency utility bill funding. Our place is able to offer utility assistance once a year to about 90 west central households, for an amount of up to $300. Neighbors in need are invited to call for assistance on the first tuesday of each month, with their avista account number handy, and assistance is distributed in the order calls are received.