Clothing, All Sizes, New or Gently Used * (ANY/ALL Types)

The Clothes Closet is an example of an enormously practical service rendered with a tiny budget. Over 450,000 articles of clothing are distributed each year free of charge. However, there is very little glorification that goes along with it. Certainly it would be difficult to receive funding for a Clothes Closet. But just watching the people in our food lines convinced us there was a great need for one. Many residents were without coats on cold winter days. Children wore ill-fitted pants and walked with holes in their shoes, while their mothers tried to dress up shabby outfits with a color scarf or belt. Many looked as if they had given up. Their stained, tattered clothing advertised despair.

SFBFS provides free clothing to the poor, the needy and the disadvantaged throughout the Sacramento community.