Oddz & Endz, a non-profit thrift store in Grand Marais, announced that it will distribute its 2024 profit of $173,731.64 to 22 Cook County Non-profits.
Operated 100% with volunteers, 45 adults, seven middle school parents, and six middle school students donated more than 8,000 hours in the store’s community building mission last year. The store’s mission is to provide a place for people in the Cook County community to donate usable household goods, sell those goods at accessible prices, and distribute annual profits to local community non-profits. The volunteers direct distributions to recipients of their choice, and the distribution amount is based on the number of hours they’ve volunteered. Each volunteer may designate up to five Cook County nonprofits currently and actively pursuing their beneficial missions in the community.
The store received more than 2,400 donations of usable goods and resold those items in roughly 17,233 transactions.
The middle school students and parents generated almost $7,000 for a March school trip to Washington, DC.
Call Oddz & Endz at 218-877-7060 for information about volunteering for your favorite non-profit.
This year’s recipients include:
Oddz & Endz
Library Friends
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 413
Arrowhead Animal Rescue
Care Partners
Cook County Higher Education
Cook County LEP Renewable Energy
Cook County Empty Bowls
Cornerstone Community Church
Evangelical Free Church
First Congregational Church
Grand Marais Playhouse
Great Expectations School
Hamilton Habitat
ISD 166 (Washington D.C.)
NS Music Collaborative
North Shore Health Care Foundation
Oral Health Task Force
Sawtooth Mtn Clinic Giving Tree Program
Spirit of the Wilderness Episcopal Church
Good Samaritan Fund
Violence Prevention Center
Food Shelf
