About TurnStyles

TurnStyles today:

*Provides over 150 volunteers a fun, exciting, and rewarding place to serve.

*Provides a location to learn important job-skills for students, refugees, or others in order to improve their lives and become productive members of our community.

*Provides a location for schools, churches, businesses, and other organizations to connect with the community.

*Receives and processes donations from over 12,000 donors per year.

*Donates thousands of dollars to over 20 other non-profit agencies.

*Provides the ultimate GREEN environment that allows items to be re-cycled, saving our national resources, and minimizing our landfill volume.

*Provide a location where 3,000 customers per week can shop and save money to improve their lives.

*Provides additional revenue to help support over 20 programs in Northeast Kansas .

A BRIEF HISTORY

Catholic Charities has always been blessed with a strong donor base. In fact, we were receiving more calls from donors wanting to donate their household items than we had clients that could use the items. Back in July 2003, Catholic Charities made the decision to open a thrift store to sell excess items to the public where 100% of all proceeds would go directly back to the agency. With over 80 thrift stores operating in the Kansas City area, we chose not to look at them, but instead patterned the store after successful retailers such as Wal*Mart and Target.

With a group of about 20 volunteers, TurnStyles opened February 14, 2004 in a 2,800 square foot store. The donor drop-offs averaged 20 per week. After about 18 months, as the donors, volunteers, and customers grew, we made the decision to move across the parking lot into an 18,000 square foot location. On Saturday, October 1, 2005 the old store closed. On October 2, with about 50 volunteers and 15 pizzas, we moved to the new store, and on October 3 opened at our present location.

TODAY

The goal of TurnStyles has always been to save people money so they can improve their lives, while at the same time generating revenue to assist Catholic Charities with over 20 programs that serve our community.

Store operations are Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Drop off times are Friday (10-6) and Saturday (10-Noon). The store is primarily operated with a relatively small paid staff, and Catholic Charities' largest group of volunteers. While focusing on good quality items at an affordable price, we also receive items that do not meet our particularly high standards, but still have value. Shoes, toys, stuffed animals, belts and purses, clothing, and metal items not meeting our quality expectations are re-cycled. Approximately every 6 weeks, we have a volunteer group fill a 53 foot trailer with items purchased by a company that processes, sorts, clean, and delivers to third-world countries. This product is re-sold to individual shop owners that in turn sell the product in their local markets for pennies on the dollar. Not only does it provide income for these merchants, but provides low-cost quality items to their customers. Catholic Charities donors have provided clothing to Guatemala , Panama , Bangladesh and several African countries. In addition to being “Green”, these items also generate over $50,000 per year of additional income for Catholic Charities.

To Shop

Check us out on ebay! Click here to see our current available ebay items.
OR
Visit the TurnStyles Thrift Store at 9750 W. 87th Street in Overland Park right across from the main branch of the Johnson County Library. We're open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Click here for driving directions.

To Donate

The clients we serve appreciate your quality donations. We accept gently used furniture, clothing, small household appliances and much more. You may drop off your donations at TurnStyles. Drop-off times are only Fridays 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. or Saturdays from 10a.m. to noon. Check out our current needs page here.
For tax questions regarding your donation, please visit the following IRS site. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p561.pdf

Pick Up Service

In order to accommodate those needing their donations picked up, we offer this service for a $50 donation to help off-set the costs incurred but is offset with a $20 TurnStyles gift certificate which can be used either by the donor, or dropped in offering plate at church.  Please make checks payable to Catholic Charities. All items must be located on the ground level, preferably in the garage. Due to restrictions we are unable to move items up or down any steps. To schedule a pick up, please call 913-648-6795 or email us at jclopton@jccc.edu with your name and telephone number and we'll return your call within one day.

To Volunteer

Please visit the store, Fridays during business hours to learn more of the exciting volunteer opportunities or call Mary Kay Drees at 913-433-2080. Volunteers are needed to sort donations and staff the store. To learn more about volunteer opportunities click here. In order to volunteer, you must be pre-registered.  Click here to obtain the registration forms.