Alcove is an amazing place that can help with a plethora of issues. My children and I had our first…read moreexperiences with The Alcove a year after it was founded! I lost my husband in 2001, when our sons were just 3 & 6. Grief is such a difficult thing to navigate, especially when you are going through it with your kids. Alcove supported me and my boys with love and kindness. We were separated into groups according to age of children and then parents are separate. At that time, Alcove primarily used art therapy as a way of helping children heal from their trauma. Art therapy accesses the same part of your brain used while dreaming. By creating art, while talking about something, we heal a deeper trauma I didn't think I needed help until I had help. My children are well adjusted men now. I am so grateful!

The thrift store is a worthy spot for donations. The cause is what made me switch from Goodwill…read morewith its rich CEO. Staff is friendly and it serves the community in two ways. My favorite place to drop off donations and then shop for treasures.

CHECK YOUR RECEIPTS!!!!! I had heard about this on other Goodwill's but I NEVER thought it would be…read morehere, the girl rounded up my total for their "donations" without even asking! Yeah I know it was only change but GW is such a ripoff anymore that they DON'T ANYTHING extra!!!!!! And it is the principal of the whole thing! Well I have been wanting to boycott GW for a long time and THIS is the last straw! Goodwill consider yourself BOYCOTTED!!!!

Wow, just Wow. This place is the most cluttered, ghetto, dirty Goodwill I've ever been to. A bit…read moreof organization, less stuff, and friendlier staff could turn this place around. The donations do have potental. First off if you see a cart grab it, there's no "formal" place to grab one and people just leave them everywhere. They have a limited supply to begin with. Secondly, if you don't like congestion, chaos, mayhem, screaming kids, rude customers don't step inside. You'll encounter all of the above. The children here are literally ferel, than you have the deliquent parents who try to parent by screaming across the store. Literally a boy was riding some sort of for sale scooter thing getting in everyone's way and screaming at the top of his lungs. No parent in sight. It's total noise pollution. The isles of clothes should be organized but aren't. Most are hanging off the hanger or on the floor, some racks are jammed packed so full you can hardly sort thru them. I didn't spend alot of time in this department but can imagine that their sorting process for weeding out stained items, etc is poor. The misc/housewares section is overloaded and overflowing unto the floor. The stuff is piled high on large kitchen metal racks, artwork is all over the floor. This area is totally congested with people, and you will need to dig and move stuff around, alot. Don't get me started on the toy department. It's where ferel children are left by parents who don't want to parent. I will say there is alot of stuff in the housewares, vintage and otherwise, just finding it, getting to it, and dealing with all the chaos around it makes it difficult. Oh, and the min price point at this Goodwill is $3.49. Single spoon? Yep, $3.49! The staff stand around and play on their phones and are of no assistance. I was really suprised at how unkept this Goodwill was, simplying because the area and surrounding thrift stores are the complete opposite.

I would give negative stars if i could. PLEASE DO NOT DONATE OR SUPPORT THIS MISSION IN ANY WAY!…read moreRather, please help me get the word out on what's really going on there. Donations are not given out to the people staying there. They are taken to the back and never seen again. Sometimes they will hand them out if people saw them coming in. The owner DAN BROWN sells donations at his thrift shop. Someone donated a very large amount of pillows to the shelter. These pillows remained outside under a shed and never brought inside even though there were not enough pillows for everyone. I observed two counselors putting these pillows in their cars - I suspect these pillows were being slowly moved to the thrift shop owned by Dan Brown to be sold for a profit. After passing out a third time I was diagnosed with gallstones. This was the reason for my medical issues but the mission saw me as a liability. When they could not find a valid reason to kick me out, they created one. The overnight counselor would wake everyone up and make announcements in the morning which included repeating confidential notes in the log book about people making complaints about other women in the program calling new people "troublemakers" in an attempt to pit people against each other and cause issues between the group of women. This same counselor was never aware of the time breakfast was served or which women were in the program under her care. This woman would belittle and demean the women on a daily basis. All in the name of Christianity. After being awake all night I found myself in crisis and took myself to the crisis unit at the ACMC. There I was put into an intense outpatient program for mental health. None of the counselors knew anything about my situation and continued to make me a target. During this time, I was unable to see or speak to my case manager despite my attempt to meet with her every day. Two days later I finally found a room to rent. The very evening I informed my case manager I would be moving out, I was thrown out on the street in my pajamas for absolutely no reason. I begged them not to kick me out and let them know I was in my pajamas. They told me I could go upstairs to change out of oajamas but instead the police were called and I was removed with all my belongings and the counselors only concern was that I not take the plastic bin my clothes were kept in. My friend allowed me to stay with her temporarily, but because she lives in another county, I was not able to return to my intensive therapy I so desperately needed. I was lined up to receive rental assistance, but because of the report from the mission and it appearing I wasn't following my social services plan, I may be terminated from that program as well. Everything I worked so hard to accomplish for myself was ripped from me in one foul swoop. By the very people who were supposed to be helping me in their fight against homelessness. I am a 53 year old retired paralegal who has never been homeless before with no history of substance abuse of any kind. I have no criminal record. This is the first time I've ever been in the "welfare system." The Atlantic City rescue mission receives funding from the state of New Jersey for each woman in their program. These women are dehumanized and belittled on a daily basis with no regard for basic human rights. There is no confidentiality and no respect whatsoever. In my attempts to contact the mission and request to see my file and my case notes or even information as to how they are going to report the situation to welfare, I'm told that they don't have to tell me anything because they are a non-profit. The remaining women in the program are traumatized and scared to death after witnessing what happened to me. The mission needs to be scrutinized not only in their behavior and their treatment of women specifically, but the counselors are not qualified to be responsible for anyone's future. This is not the first time the Atlantic City mission has been under a microscope for their mishandling of funds and donations. O

I work on the culture team of my company and part of my job is to send our employees fun and…read moremeaningful gifts occasionally. To be honest, I'm a bit tired of the mass-produced items that most swag providers offer: put a logo on a bottle opener or slap the company branding on a mass-produced T-shirt. And so a few years ago I was doing some online research on small businesses or nonprofits that produce possibly-customizable gifts...ideally businesses with a mission that is in line with our company's mission. I came across MudGirls Studios and added them to a spreadsheet...and then I actually forget about this list for a while. Then this year I was looking for a special gift for a certain population in our company and I thought back to said list. I reached out to the email on the MudGirls website and soon after I got a response from Dorrie. (Dorrie later told me that she thought I was spamming her and that I wasn't real.) Over the next few weeks and months, Dorrie and I developed actually two gifts: a custom-branded mug and a custom-branded ramen bowl. I'm very excited to send these to my colleagues next year for their very special work anniversary! Thank you, Dorrie, for all that you do and for responding to my initial email. I love your organization's mission and I love the work that you do. Here's their mission: "MudGirls Studios is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization that empowers disadvantaged women through training and employment. MudGirls Studios helps women transition onto a pathway towards self-sufficiency and out of poverty. We use clay as our vehicle to change lives through their own creations and sales of functional art and aesthetic utilitarian objects. These women gain a source of long-term supplemental income along the way."

They changed the opening time from 7 to 730 to give them more time and I'm still sitting here after…read more45 minutes and that's with rapid pass. I recommend going to another location as they are slow and u are volunteering ur time. Yes it's a good cause but they are getting paid well for doing this. All I hear is talking and 3 people are out in the waiting room.