Whenever I donate things from the house - I try to give to one of the childrens homes here - because they let the children pick first and then turn everything over to their resale store. Now if they do or not I dont know but it makes me feel good that maybe some child might get something that they wouldn't have otherwise. We always try to give to the kids first. Our daughter is a school teacher and one year we paid for lunches for one of her students that the dad would not feed. Kids are the first to suffer and my husband was a very badly abused child so we know what just a little kindness will do for a child. Just a thought on donations.