Raelene Palazzolo's Contact Details

Raelene Palazzolo's Company Details

The Generous and the Grateful, Inc.

Macquarie University, NSW, AU • 20 - 49 Employees
Non-Profit

At Generous and Grateful we connect excess with need to help people and the planet. We support those rebuilding their lives after tragedy and trauma by sourcing high quality used and excess furniture and white goods. We connect those bulky essential items when they move into housing. We do the big heavy expensive things that seem impossible when you have little, most importantly bed, fridge & washing machine, sofas and dinner tables. We enable recipients to move past pure survival mode, to a point where they may begin to thrive. By removing furniture sourcing from their caseworkers' load allows them to focus on vital support like Mental Health, Employability, Financial and more.We work alongside caseworkers and social workers at Mission Au, RedCross, Marist180, various DV shelters across Sydney and the like. The budget and time savings they enjoy can be better spent on work readiness and mental health support. Our recipients are typically survivors of DV, ex homeless, youth at risk, and refugees. We know that a good night sleep, safe food storage, and cleaned clothes vastly improve their chance of starting again and working towards the life they wish for. It's a simple concept, we are filling a clear gap in the market with supply and demand both plentiful, we simply connect the two, quickly. By working with caseworkers and advocates we sidestep lengthy assessment delays. We are volunteer run, our storage facility is currently near West Ryde Gold Club. In FY2019/20 we withheld 95 tonne of quality items from landfills.Simply put we are in the business of connecting kindness and providing community to those that have lost theirs.Supported by Ryde Council, Goodman Foundation, Payce Foundation, Frasers Property, Armstrong Q, Herbert Smith Freehills, Macquarie University, Koala, Built Construction and more.