Your Turn Consignment hosts seasonal pop-up sales featuring gently used baby and kids items.  The mission of Your Turn Consignment is to provide a positive selling and shopping experience while encouraging community building and compassion for local charities.  The concept is simple: consignors prepare and price their items for sale with barcoded tags.   Items are organized similarly to a department store and the public is invited to shop for several days. Unsold items are returned to the seller or if designated as donations, to local charities.  The consignor receives payment for their sales.  This past fall we donated over 25 totes of clothes, shoes, and toys to BirthRight of Lorain County and Mercy Hospital Mothers’ Resource Group.  My goal is to invite more groups to get these donated items into the hands of families that need them instead of arbitrarily dumping them at a thrift store or worse, a landfill.  Groups I would like to connect with are county children’s services, refugee placement groups, and shelters of unhomed families.  Coincidingly,  we are creating a circular economy in the local community and offering resources for child safety and wellness temporarily organized at one location.  

     The additional funding received would expand our operations to include more vocational training opportunities for differently-abled adults from The Murray Ridge Center.  We donate a portion of our net proceeds each sale to Murray Ridge for their programs that assist people with disabilities from birth to adulthood and their families. I would like to offer an increased wage (to reflect the current market) for the contractors who work to prepare, list, and tag busy sellers' items for sale.  The funds for storage will provide space to sort, prepare and store sellers' inventory between seasons and the physical assets such as clothing racks, reusable signage, merchandise displays, etc.  The reusable bags will be used by shoppers who do not bring their own bag, wagon, or stroller to hold items as they shop.  Site procurement and insurance are anticipated for the Fall/Winter Sale since we have doubled, if not tripled, the number of consignors registered, inventory, and projected number of shoppers.  We will need a bigger space than we've had for past sales.  Also, as we add resources such as ChildWatch, Car Seat Safety Checks, Identification Kits for children, etc. we will need more event insurance. 

  My fourth pop-up consignment sale will be held on April 27-30, 2023.  Each sale has grown through word of mouth and social media marketing.  My vision is to continue to invite resources from and for the community so that the sale becomes almost a family festival of sorts.  In this way, I hope to improve the sustainability of a circular economy, increase the lifespan of baby and kids' clothing and items, expand the educational resources for young families and contribute to intergenerational equity.