The Pennsylvania Furniture Mission was established in 2022 to serve Pennsylvania households seeking a hand-up to reach their personal goals. Co-founders, Pashk Sokoli and Amanda Reilly-Sokoli, sought to offer assistance by providing free gently-used furniture to families and individuals in need in Pennsylvania after experiencing their own challenges and seeing the hardships of others.
Pennsylvania Furniture Mission recognizes the large and overwhelming cost of purchasing furniture for a new home or apartment. Our services provide families and individuals experiencing financial barriers, the opportunity to receive free gently-used furniture, and avoid purchasing furniture at a high price tag. Time, money, and other resources can be utilized elsewhere in the household for basic needs if it is not spent on household furnishings.
About Us
Our mission is to create warm and welcoming homes for all Pennsylvania residents by providing free furniture to families and individuals in need.
Pennsylvania Furniture Mission also seeks to create a more sustainable environment, and simultaneously allows clients to select their own home furnishings.
Did you know?
Furniture poverty is a concept that is not widely understood, however, when families and individuals use their limited resources to secure housing, they have little to nothing left to furnish their home with used or new furniture.
As of September 2022, *63% of families in America were living paycheck to paycheck, creating reduced opportunity for even those currently housed to replace old and/or passed down furniture in poor condition.
*Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/24/more-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-inflation-outpaces-income.html
Did you know that the per capita MSW (municipal solid waste) generation increased from 4.5 pounds per person per day in 2017 to 4.9 pounds per person per day in 2018?*
*Source: https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/national-overview-facts-and-figures-materials
