The all-Volunteer Aspen Thrift Shop makes grants totally over $600,000 annually in the areas of the Arts, Community, Education, Environment and Youth Activities. In addition, we provide college scholarships to high school graduates who represent the Thrift Shop spirit.
Summit54 is very grateful for the volunteers who work tirelessly at the Aspen Thrift Shop to curate the donated clothing, shoes and housewares to provide a wonderful shopping opportunity in our community. Your donations provided FREE Summer academic and life enrichment programming for more than 550 children in the Roaring Fork Valley for the past 14 years. - Terri Caine, Summit54
I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude for your generous support of our AHS Dance Team. Your grant truly made a difference in our season — easing the financial burden for many of our families and helping us create meaningful experiences for our athletes. - Gioia Bartalo, Aspen High School Spirit & Dance Team
Many thanks to the Aspen Thrift Shop for its grant to Mountain Valley Developmental Services to encourage and support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, enhancing their ability to live, learn, and work in an independent and inclusive manner, and to educate the community about their contributions and capabilities.
Huge thank you to the Aspen Thrift Shop for their generous donation to Access AfterSchool! Your support helps us continue providing enriching programs for students in out community. We appreciate all that you do!
The mission of the Aspen Thrift Shop is to sell donated goods at affordable prices, to make grants to other non-profit organizations in the Roaring Fork Valley, and to provide scholarships to Roaring Fork Valley area high school graduates.
Since its beginning in 1949, the Aspen Thrift Shop has taken donated clothing and household items and offered them for resale to provide much needed funding for a variety of causes. Our first endeavor was to help the old "citizens hospital", located in a Victorian home at the base of Red Mountain, raise money to remodel the attic for nurse housing. When the hospital hired several more nurses, the Aspen Thrift Shop helped pay their salaries. Next, the Aspen Thrift Shop helped the Red Brick School (which now houses the Red Brick Center for the Arts) by providing funds for the first kindergarten and the first hot lunch program. The Aspen Ski Club became our next grantee, to support local kids' skiing (and then later, snowboarding). As the town and valley grew, so did the needs, and the Thrift Shop Ladies have responded by accepting grant applications from area non-profits of all kinds. By selling gently used items, the Ladies annually distribute over $600,000 to non-profits and graduating seniors from the valley's three public high schools. Operating in our current space since the 1980s, the shop is open year-round five days a week and, for the last couple of years, two evenings a week. We are an all-women organization of nearly 250 volunteers who love our community and are grateful to be able to give back in a meaningful way.
Organization name
Aspen Thrift Shop
other names
The Thrift Shop of Aspen, Aspen Thrift Shop
1949
Tax id (EIN)
74-2291594
Category
Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking Foundations
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
422 East Hopkins AvenueMailing
PO BOX 126Pitkin County, CO, US