Sojourner Center

I’ve been volunteering at Sojourner Center for the past eight years at increasing levels of involvement. This place is one of the finest examples of community I can imagine. Thousands of people across Maricopa county provide many of the day to day items women and children need … from diapers (lots needed) to clothing, to toiletries, to alarm clocks. When people leave an abuser with nothing but what they can carry there are many needs. The greatest needs are for in-​kind gently used or new items brought to the beautiful donation center on Fillmore (off 24^th St) and monetary donations through the web site. But there are many other opportunities to make a difference; can you read to a child? how about teaching someone to write a resume? are you a tradesperson who can pull a team together to refresh rooms lived in by the women and children? I’ve seen some reviews of people who are upset from prior years but please check out the web site as I think you will find it very helpful:

This review is solely about volunteering here. They do not return phone calls or emails. They treat people that want to volunteer their time horribly! On facebook former volunteers/​vanguards are always complaining. Sojourner Center should start treating better those willing to work for free! This is a disgrace. The horror stories that i heard and my personal experience of not even treated as a person that should have emails returned is just unbelievable. Want to volunteer? Look elsewhere.

Great place to donate your gently used items to help out those that need it.
Everyone is always so friendly and grateful. Maybe one day I can give more than just items.

I have not shopped here before, but I am giving it 5 stars because they are for a great cause. I donate a lot of items here… keep up the good work!

One of my new favorite thrift stores! I dropped a bunch of stuff off today and took a look around. They get some really nice stuff donated to them and there were a lot of name brand items like Kennith Cole, The Limited, etc… the shoe selection is pretty nice as well.
The store is smallish, clean, and has a friendly staff. The proceeds go to help women who are victims of domestic violence so it’s putting your money to good use. They’re hours are limited… something like 10 – 4 on weekdays and 10-​? on Saturday, so plan accordingly.

This place was awful. I went to 5 thrift stores today, and hit this one last based on the previous recommendation on Unilocal,it was horrible. No AC in the middle of summer, hardly any stuff, bad vibe. I’m not a picky thrift shopper but this place was scraping the barrel. I appreciate that it benefits a good cause but I’d never go back.

This is a great thrift store with proceeds going to an even greater cause. The Sojourner Center provides housing and assistance to women and children that have been victims of domestic violence.
This thrift store is a way for them to fund their cause. They run on donations and I was told that they let women from the shelter come and get clothes from it for free. The rest of the time, customers come in and shop at amazing discounts.
I didn’t really check out the clothes section or anything, and the place was more than a tad unorganized. But that’s how it is a lot of the time with thrift stores, so I guess that’s what makes a great find even better.
I did however, check out the book section and it was AMAZING! They had the best books here of any thrift store I’ve gone to. And guess how much they were? 25 cents. 25 CENTS!!!
They had boxes of books laying on the floor that hadn’t even been put on the shelf yet. I gladly went through them. I found «The Lovely Bones,» «Saffron Skies,» «In her Shoes,» «The House of Sand and Fog,» and quite a few others (around 10 more) and bought them all for a freaking quarter each. If I had purchased them at a bookstore, it would have cost me over $ 100. Crazy.
My mom also found a box of children’s books. I’m talking books that looked like maybe they’d been read once, if that. And they couldn’t have been more than a year old. Brand new, shiny children’s books for a quarter. She works at the Day School for the Deaf, so she was able to buy the pre-​schoolers a bunch of great books for practically nothing.
See? Everyone wins when you shop at Sojourner Thrift!