Retailers
Turn Inventory Into Impact. Restore Dignity in Communities.
A trusted nonprofit partner helping retailers turn new inventory into measurable, tax-deductible community impact.
Built for Retailers Who Want to Give Back—Thoughtfully
Retailers today are balancing inventory challenges, sustainability goals, community impact, and bottom-line realities. We partner with retailers who want a giving solution that is simple, responsible, and meaningful.
At The Undie Chest, we help retailers turn new, unsellable inventory into everyday essentials for people who need them most—while providing clear impact reporting and tax-deductible documentation.
Who Your Partnership Supports
Your partnership helps provide new underwear to women and families experiencing homelessness, survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, students in Title I schools, and youth navigating foster care and housing insecurity.
Why Essentials Matter
Underwear is a basic necessity—yet it’s one of the most requested and least donated items.
For the individuals we serve, access to new underwear directly impacts health, hygiene, confidence, and dignity.
How Retailer Partnerships Work
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1. Choose the right path for your inventory (donate, upcycle, recycle, or certified destruction)
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2. We partner with local services that work with indiviuals with disabilities to sort and process donations.
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3. Items are donated, upcycled, recycled, or destroyed based on your needs
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4. Receive documentation, sustainability data, and impact reporting
More Than Donations: Flexible Inventory Solutions
Not all inventory can or should be donated. Brand protection, compliance, and sustainability goals matter.
Service Options:
Donation of eligible new inventory
Upcycling services to responsibly repurpose materials
Recycling and disposal services
Certificates of destruction available upon request
Impact You Can Measure—and Trust
Community Impact
Retail partners want more than good intentions—they want clear, credible insight into the impact of their support.
That’s why The Undie Chest offers multiple impact-reporting options, each designed to support environmental accountability and community-impact storytelling.
Environmental Impact That Makes Sense-And Makes a Difference
Understanding your environmental impact matters—not just for reporting, but for the story you share with your customers, your team, and your community.
Every item responsibly diverted from landfill represents resources saved, emissions avoided, and a more thoughtful way of doing business. Through our Sustainability Scorecards, retailers can clearly see—and confidently communicate—the real environmental difference their customers are helping to make, translated into everyday terms people understand and care about.
For example, over 9400 lbs of textiles donated instead of sent to the landfill or burned would be equal to preventing EPA-based greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to:
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36.6 tons of waste recycled instead of landfill
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8,806 trash bags of waste recycled instead of landfilled
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11,657 gallons of gasoline consumed
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21.6 homes’ energy use for one year here
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263,806 miles driven by average passenger vehicle
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8,375,166 smartphones charged
“Because retailers joined us in donating overstock and returns, thousands of children didn’t have to miss school simply because they lacked clean underwear.”
— Elaine Birks-Mitchell, The Undie Chest
Why Retailers Choose The Undie Chest
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We understand retail operations
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We offer donation, upcycling, recycling, and destruction solutions
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We provide clear, accountable reporting
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We support a broad nonprofit and school network
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We lead with dignity, not just distribution
