Greenbaum Home Furnishings and La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries, two local furniture retailers, have joined forces to help support The Sharehouse, a Seattle, non-profit furniture bank that distributes furniture to homeless families who are resettling into permanent housing.

Between April 30th and May 18th, Greenbaum and La-Z-Boy will be giving their customers $50 in credit towards a new living room chair or recliner and $100 in credit towards a new couch when customers trade-in their old living room furniture.

All reusable furniture will be donated to the Sharehouse, who will give the furniture away free of charge to families coming out of shelters and transitional housing and moving into new homes. Greenbaum Home Furnishings has been a proud partner of The Sharehouse since 1990, donating well over $50,000 worth of furniture and helping to furnish over 456 homes for the homeless. Says Cindy Greenbaum of her retail partnership with the local non-profit, "Working with the Sharehouse has helped to create an awareness of the issue of homelessness among our customers and employees, and we're proud to be part of a project that recycles a sense of dignity and pride in individuals getting back on their feet AND recycles reusable furniture for the environment. We're just glad we can give back and thank the Northwest for their support."

La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries has been donating reusable furniture to the program for several years from their Lynnwood and Southcenter stores, and is adding to the effort through their new Issaquah location. "People in the Puget Sound region have a reputation for getting involved with programs to help those who need it, says La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries' Pete Scroggs. "The current tough economic conditions make it an ideal time to raise people's awareness of how they can truly impact someone's life through the Sharehouse program. This is a great example of a win-win situation."