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We’re honored and excited to share that Second Chances has been chosen as the Somerville Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 Powderhouse Award Recipient for Non-Profit of the Year!

Please consider celebrating with our team – and an incredible group of Powderhouse Award winners and Chamber members – at the Holiday Inn Somerville on Thursday, November 13, 2025. This award is as much about our generous community as it is about our 20 years of collective impact. Thank you for supporting our neighbors and our work for more than two decades!

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2025 Clothing Drive Results

  • The Batch Yard, Everett – 1,123 pounds
  • Bergmeyer Associates – 547 pounds
  • Boston Latin School Fun Raisers – thank you!
  • Brickbottom Artists Building – 1,149 pounds so far
  • Cambridge Park Apartments – 740 pounds
  • Dandelion Montessori – coming soon!
  • F.L. Caulfield Construction – 210 pounds
  • Center & Stone, Bozzuto – 804 pounds
  • Clippership on the Wharf, Bozzuto – 1,209 pounds
  • Coldwell Banker, Cambridge – 503 pounds
  • Colliers International – thank you!
  • Deloitte & Touche – thank you!
  • Elements Massage, Medford – 1,035 pounds
  • Everett High School Senior, Alicia – thank you!
  • EY Parthenon – 446 pounds
  • Four Seasons Hotel – 574 pounds
  • Gillette – P&G – thank you!
  • Global Furniture Group – thank you!
  • Hillman Homes – 1,118 pounds in the spring and 1,356 pounds in the fall
  • Hebrew Senior Life, Brookline – 1,182 pounds
  • Hubspot – 228 pounds
  • Hult International Business School – 188 pounds
  • The Kensington, Bozzuto – 976 pounds
  • Lincoln Institute of Land Policy – thank you!
  • Lutron Electronics – thank you!
  • Mariana’s Dancing Studio – thank you!
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Office of the Vice President for Research – thank you!
  • Steve McKenna & The Home Advantage Team with Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty – 787 pounds in March and 719 in June
  • The Metlo Boston Apartments – 1,288 pounds
  • Middlesex Federal – 1,000+ pounds
  • Morgan Stanley – thank you!
  • Mudflat Pottery School – 1,182 pounds
  • Naveo Credit Union – 710 pounds
  • Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School – Equality Club – coming soon!
  • Omega Psi Phi – 591 pounds
  • Progress Software – thank you!
  • Rockland Trust – 2,028 pounds (1,537 at the Davis Square branch and 491 at the Union Square branch)
  • Scholars of Finance – thank you!
  • Securitas – 453 pounds
  • Signature Aviation – 381 pounds
  • Triumvirate Environmental – 438 pounds
  • Watermark Seaport, Greystar – coming soon!
  • YWCA Cambridge, Renae’s Place – 145 pounds

  • Abcam – 789 pounds
  • Alder at Allston Yards – thank you!
  • Arrowstreet – thank you!
  • AVA North Point – 996 pounds
  • Batch Yard, Everett – 1,123 pounds
  • Benchling – 85 pounds in the spring and more in the fall – thank you!
  • Berkshire Bank – 521 pounds
  • Bergmeyer – thank you!
  • The Bookcase Factory Outlet – 811 pounds
  • Bosley – 274 pounds
  • Biogen – more than two carloads – thank you!
  • Brickbottom Artists Building – 1,521 pounds
  • Buffalo Exchange, Brookline – 242 pounds
  • F. L. Caulfield & Sons – 410 pounds
  • Clippership Apartments on the Wharf – 823 pounds
  • Coldwell Banker, Cambridge – 955 pounds
  • Deloitte – thank you!
  • Devonshire Residences – 1,845 pounds
  • Eastern Cannabis Company – thank you!
  • Elements Massage – 277 pounds
  • EY-Parthenon – 301 pounds
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Boston – 277 pounds
  • Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty – 1,553 pounds
  • The Goods – 30+ bags of winter accessories!
  • Goody Clancy – 84 pounds in early 2024 and more in late 2024
  • Greentown Labs – 182 pounds
  • Hebrew Senior Life – Center Communities of Brookline – 959 pounds in the spring and 646 pounds in the fall
  • Hillman Homes – 1,081 pounds in the spring and 1,238 pounds in the fall
  • Holiday Inn – Bunker Hill in East Somerville – 1,169 pounds
  • Hult International Business School – 1,132 pounds
  • Lutron – 269 pounds in the spring and more in the fall
  • Mariana’s Dancing Studio – thank you!
  • The Metlo Boston Apartments – 1,692 pounds
  • Mudflat Studio – 1,364 pounds
  • Naveo Credit Union – 1,024 pounds
  • One First Condominium – 779 pounds
  • Omega Psi Phi – 584 pounds
  • Rockland Trust – Davis Square – 1,108 pounds
  • Rockland Trust – Union Square – 681 pounds
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts – thank you!
  • Securitas – 532 pounds
  • Steve McKenna & The Home Advantage Team – 681 pounds
  • Temple Isaiah – 3,697 pounds
  • Wellesley Hills Congregational Church – 1,215 pounds
  • Wilmington Community Television – about one ton – thank you!

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Other coverage:

We appreciate being included in this December 2024 GBH article about Boston area organizations that accept donations of clothing and other items. Read more »

Our founder and CEO was interviewed by the Somerville Wire in May 2022. Read more »

It was fun to talk about recycling and reusing clothing and textiles on The Wardrobe Muse podcast with Lisa Ann Schraffa Santin of LASS Wardrobe. Listen here »

Our 2020 COVID-19 emergency response grant from Tufts University was featured in The Somerville Times »

What a surprise to be included in Rockland Trust’s 2018 Annual Report! That’s our CEO, Andrea, receiving a grant check from JJ, the Davis Square Branch Manager. Photo on page 7 »

It was an honor to be featured in Tufts Now in November 2018 during the kick off for Tufts University’s employee charitable giving appeal.

Thanks to the Boston Globe for including us in a discussion of curbside textile recycling and its impact on local clothing donation programs in September 2018 »

Many thanks to our wonderful community partners at Somerville Homeless Coalition for featuring our collaboration to provide free clothing to their homeless and very low-income clients in their fall 2016 newsletter! Read more on page 2 »

Congratulations to Scout Somerville on publishing its 40th issue in July/August 2016! Thank you for featuring our founder and CEO among 40 local leaders who are shaping Somerville’s future. Read more on their page 45 »

Thanks to Boston Mamas for including us in a January 2015 blog about helping kids and families in need in our community! There’s some great information and wonderful organizations here »

Our Founder and CEO, Andrea Shapiro, was featured in Smith College’s Winter 2010-11 Alumnae Quarterly. Read more here »

Donation Bin Hosts Wanted

Want to host one of our clothing donation bins at your location? We are looking for locations for donation bins in Somerville, Cambridge, and communities bordering Somerville and Cambridge.

Seeking Clothing Drive Hosts

We’re deeply grateful to our generous clothing drive hosts below. Want to host a clothing drive?