(Concord, NH) The Reuse Network of Concord, NH has announced its 2025 results: more than 100,000 pieces of useful furniture provided to nonprofit organizations; more than three million pounds of valuable assets diverted from U.S. landfills.
The Reuse Network’s mission is simple: Keep used but still useful furnishings from being thrown away, by matching and providing them to nonprofit organizations for disaster and poverty relief. Since its founding in 2002, The Reuse Network has completed more than 2,500 reuse projects for education, corporate, and healthcare clients nationwide, providing more than two million items to The Network’s nonprofit partners.
“2025 was a strong year,” says Emerson Lennon, The Reuse Network’s Director of Reuse Solutions. “We helped support hurricane relief in North Carolina, flood and tornado relief in Kentucky, flood relief in Pakistan, earthquake recovery in Turkey, refugee assistance in Syria, community development in Mexico. Thousands of items went to furniture banks to support disadvantaged families here in the U.S., and thousands more to support Habitat for Humanity ReStores.”
The Reuse Network obtains furniture from organizations that are replacing, downsizing, or cleaning out storage. “It’s a straightforward deal,” says Lennon. “Clients hire us instead of hiring a trash company. We charge them just like a trash company, and we charge them about the same. But instead of sending their furniture to a landfill, we pack it in trailers and send it to folks who need it, desperately.”
In 2025 The Reuse Network provided furnishings to 64 nonprofit organizations; the furnishings were distributed to benefit communities in 21 U.S. state and 19 countries in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Across more than two decades, The Reuse Network has provided furnishings to more than 400 nonprofits, serving communities in 71 countries worldwide and 47 of the United States.
“The need, for all practical purposes, is infinite,” says Lennon from The Reuse Network. “There are hundreds of millions of children who don’t have a school desk or chair, millions of families uprooted by disaster or war. And here in the U.S., we throw out furniture by the millions of pounds, every single year. The Reuse Network could work five lifetimes without making a dent. But we try.”
