The University of Toledo

Information for International Students who need furniture and household items:

All international students: please download this flyer and follow the instructions carefully:

How to request furniture

Information for Americans who want to help with this extraordinary project:

Twice a year, beginning in January for students arriving in the spring semester, and then again in August for students arriving for the fall semester, Cherry Street Mission Ministries in Toledo (CSMM) sponsors a furniture and household items giveaway for international students.

New incoming students will receive a flyer at their International Student Orientation meeting, telling the how they can request the furniture, via email.

They will be matched with a driver of a van or pickup truck who will pick them up and take them to CSMM’s warehouse, where they can select what they might need from available furniture, household items and small appliances.

How you can help:

1. Donate Household Items 

Download a donation flyer

If you have any good used furniture, small appliances, clean mattresses, or other useful household items, consider donating them to Cherry Street Missions Ministry.  You may bring the items to CSMM's LifeBridge Center (the old Banner Mattress warehouse) at 3342 Monroe St., Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.  Make sure you tell the volunteers at the LifeBridge center that your donated items are for the International Student Project.

Or we can pick them up.  To arrange for a pick up, please contact Wes Blood (419-478-8325  wdbbdw@aol.com).

We are looking for donations of the following decent-quality used items:

1. Dining or dinette tables (tables of ANY kind)
2. Dining or dinette chairs
3. Clean Mattresses/beds (queen or smaller - we cannot use king sized)
4. Small or medium sized desks, computer tables and study tables
5. Office chairs
6. Lamps (both floor and table)
7. Microwaves
8. Full sized and Small couches/loveseats (please no big heavy sleeper sofas).
9. Kitchen appliances like toasters, blenders, mixers, can openers, coffee makers, etc.
10. Dressers
11. End-tables/coffee tables/small TV stands
12. Cooking pots and pans and some dishes (we tend to get an abundance of dishes but always need pans)
13. Bicycles

Things we cannot use:

1. Big heavy items like huge entertainment centers, executive sized desks, sleeper sofas, double recliner sofas, king beds.
2. Dirty or broken items (please don't donate "project" items).
3. Old tube-type televisions.
4. Waterbeds
5. Large appliances (refrigerators, washers, dryers, etc.)

For more information about donating go to donate household items at CSMM.

2. Be a Driver

If you have a pickup truck or delivery truck and would like to help a student pick up their household items, please contact the number below and you will be given detailed information.  To volunteer as a driver, contact Wes Blood at 419-478-8325 or email him at wdbbdw@aol.com