10th Anniversary Sale - TRU Hospice Thrift Shop

TRU Hospice Thrift Shop Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Boulder, CO - TRU Community Care, founded as Boulder County Hospice in 1976, is celebrating ten successful years of TRU Hospice Thrift Shop in Boulder. Located at 5665 Arapahoe Avenue, TRU Hospice Thrift Shop serves hundreds of shoppers, donors, and volunteers every week. Manager of more than nine years, Lynn McCullough, who has a background in retail shares, “We love explaining to people who donate and volunteer how important their contributions are to our hospice patients and families.”

The proceeds of the Thrift Shop support services provided by TRU Community Care a nonprofit hospice and palliative care organization serving Boulder, Broomfield, Adams, Jefferson and parts of Weld Counties. Thanks to the mountains of donations from caring community members, more than $350,000 annually is funneled to the hospice, palliative care, grief services, community education, and the 10-bed inpatient unit in Louisville from the thrift shop.

“For almost forty years, Boulder County has embraced the hospice movement as vital to adding quality of life for our families and neighbors. The community also has embraced our TRU Hospice Thrift Shop. It’s as an important way to support our hospice work, helping the environment with recycling goods, and upholding the spirit of volunteering that is so alive and well with this effort,” says Darla Schueth, President and CEO of TRU Community  Care. 

TRU Hospice Thrift Shop receives donations of furniture, clothing, household goods, books, luggage, collectibles and other items daily from 10 am to 5:30 pm at their east Boulder location.  Volunteer Mary Althauser adds, “I am so fortunate to work alongside a group of talented, dedicated, and fun loving staff and fellow volunteers. I feel a great sense of satisfaction at the end of a shift. Sometimes the work is hard and a bit overwhelming, but because of our generous donors we laughing say, “We will never be out of a job.”

TRU Hospice Thrift Shop currently is hiring for Thrift Shop Assistants and a Driver position.  See the TRU website at www.trucare.org for more information on current openings.