The BRIDGE: Community Re-entry for Ex-offenders Needs List
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Former prisoners have many needs that must be met as they adjust to life outside prison. You can help make their transition back in to society easier by donating certain basic, everyday items. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.

Items Most Urgently Needed:

• Clothing: Seasonal clothing for work, including coveralls and overalls
• Personal care items: alarm clocks, men's toiletries, phones and radios
• Bedroom: Dressers
• Kitchen: Pots and pans
• Living room: End tables and coffee tables
• Transportation: Adult men's bicycles, cars, and trucks

Other Necessary Items:

• Men's clothing, especially in the larger sizes and especially work clothing, including shoes, jeans, shirts, socks and underwear
• Personal care items including towels, wash cloths, razors, cologne, deodorant, toothpaste and toothbrushes
• Bedroom items such as full- and twin-size beds and bedding, and chests of drawers or dressers
• Kitchen housewares, including pots and pans, dishes, silverware, storage containers, dish towels, microwaves, toasters, coffee pots and other small appliances (we cannot take major appliances like washers, dryers, stoves and refrigerators), tables and chairs
• Living Room items such as couches, easy chairs, end tables, coffee tables, lamps for every room, computer desks and bookshelves

Your Help is Needed!

Please contact the Lincoln Regional office at (402) 435-2910 or Nancy Sutton at (402) 489-2989 if you can donate any of the above items.

Thank you for supporting The BRIDGE: Community Re-entry for Ex-offenders!