Mission: Deserving Decor is a 501(c)(3) all-volunteer, non-profit charity that depends on donations from generous individuals, community groups and businesses to provide donated furniture and new twin beds to women and children escaping domestic violence, homelessness, and teens who have aged out of foster care.

Results: In the past year, Deserving Decor has provided 183 new twin beds for kids without them and furnished 61 apartments with donated furniture. We also started our Housewarming Helpers program, this past summer. Volunteers deliver donated household goods to families who have recently received furniture and bed deliveries.

Target demographics: Women, children and fosters transitioning from homelessness

Direct beneficiaries per year: over 100 single mothers, children and fosters

Geographic areas served: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Programs: Essential furnishings for women and children leaving domestic violence and homeless shelters and fosters who age out of the program at 18, and move into rental properties.