Amazing Grace
The Idea:
To provide a free service to local companies that keeps Lost & Found items out of the landfill while simultaneously providing these additional benefits:
- Keeps your organization from becoming a storage facility
- Prevents unnecessary contributions to the already overflowing landfill
- Rehomes items to new owners who can get continued use and value from them
- Allows for tax write-off donations to made in yours or your companies name
- Schedule pick-ups on a regular cadence can be done in alignment with your Lost & Found policies saving you or your staff a trip to discard or donate
- This service is completely FREE. Revenue is solely generated by the reselling of some items in our online thrift store
- In certain situations Lost & Found items CAN be paid for or purchased
- This is subject to ownership approval and rates for items are usually no more that $1 each with a capped limit of 25 even if more items are collected
- If this option is selected and negotiated, it voids the donation & tax write-off benefit
Lost & Found Policy Compliance 
Amazing Grace understands that your organization has a policy in place that allows for lost items owners sufficient time to return to your establishment and reclaim their property. We are careful to respect these policies and will only schedule a pickup ONLY for items that have reached their expiration date for ownership reclaim. Most policies allow a 3 month window and most of our customers schedule once per quarter pick-up arrangement. Once items are in our possession and signed for however, ownership is transferred and donations are often made immediately making it impossible for retrieval after the fact.
How It Works
Interested organizations will complete a short customer set-up form collecting all the pertinent details, including but not limited to your specific policies and pick-up timelines preferences. Once input into our system a scheduled pick-up cadence will be established. Each pick up will come with a calendar invite reminder so that we are not surprising you upon arrival. Our drivers do not have trailers or work trucks for large items, so if it will not fit into a standard vehicle trunk other arrangements will need to be made outside of our program. Once a pick up is made it goes to a sorting facility usually the same day to be processed. The products that are of value to the online thrift store will be listed and all of the rest are donated to Goodwill where we are able to make the donation in your name. Upon doing so a receipt will be emailed to the address you provided in the account set-up phase and this receipt can be used for tax write-off purposes. IF you are an establishment that negotiates a paid service, tax write-off options are not available.
Cost 
Our customers will not be billed for ANY of our services. Pick up and redistribution of items to both the online thrift store and Goodwill Industries locations are at Amazing Grace expense. Our revenue is solely generated through the thrift store sales.
Get Started
To sign up click HERE of use the QR code below. You will then be contacted to verify your information and get booked into our scheduling system. This process is usually 15 minutes or less. For additional comments or questions please email jimrutty@gmail.com
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