Do you have old jewelry you never wear? Do you have jewelry tools you never use? Do you have overstocked or unwanted beads? Our friend Kathy Corbin needs your help! Kathy has been a volunteer with Kansas City Hospice for over a decade. She has spent that time making jewelry and raising funds to benefit the hospice. Kathy is looking for your unneeded beading supplies. Give your beads and jewelry a new and loving home! Kathy can repurpose your old necklaces or sell them. The money Kathy raises will go to the aid of patients in hospice and palliative care. Your donations will assist patients that need quality of life in terrible illness or facing the end of their journey. Be a hero by giving your beading supplies to a charity that needs your help!
We have two previous blogs about Kathy and her charitable work. We first published her story in September 2019. We loved her philanthropy and drive to make the world a better place. We wanted to help broadcast her story. We touched base in March of 2021. We were happy to hear that the pandemic did not shutter the doors of her charity. Kathy is still hard at work and still needs your generous donations. If you want to share the wealth or send unneeded items, she will put your contributions to good use! Read our blog and find out how you can donate. She would love donations of beading wire, beads, jewelry making tools, and finished jewelry. If you have beading supplies that just sit around and never see the light of day, why not do a good deed and recycle those goods? You can send your jewelry donation to Kathy or the Story Boutique.
If you would like to donate your beads or jewelry to Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care, you can email Kathleen at kathy.hospice@icloud.com for details and mailing instructions. She will respond to your inquiry immediately. Tax donation forms are available if you would like to deduct your donation.
Donate Jewelry Making Supplies & Jewelry To A Great Charity - Kansas City Hospice Needs Your Help!
Kansas City Hospice House
Would you like to help a great cause? Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit hospice, needs your help. Kansas City Hospice provides care both in the home or at two Hospice House locations regardless of people’s ability to pay. There are many ways the public can support these services: donations, volunteering, and other fund-raising projects.
Kansas City Hospice House south Kansas City location offers comfortable spaces, quiet corners, and natural surroundings that promote a sense of peace.
A fun and funky necklace with donated dyed magnesite beads.
“Jewelry for Hospice”, a fund-raising project, was started by volunteer Kathleen Corbin. For the last several years, Kathleen has made thousands of pieces of jewelry from donated beads and supplies. The jewelry is then sold in Story Boutique resale shop. This project has generated thousands of dollars in funds that directly support Kansas City Hospice. We could not continue this project without the generosity of those donating their beads and supplies.
Necklace made with donated aluminum wire wrapped with donated freshwater pearls.
In addition to donating your beads, you can also donate jewelry you have personally made or jewelry items just sitting in your jewelry box collecting dust. Perhaps you just have a plethora of jewelry and are downsizing, perhaps you just closed an Etsy Shop, or you are a retired jewelry designer with left-over stock. Kansas City Hospice will happily accept your jewelry donations to sell directly in our shop.
Story Boutique: A Kansas City Hospice boutique selling jewelry, clothing and accessories, and selected pieces of home decor. The table display is jewelry from our beaded jewelry project.
In addition to Story Boutique, Kansas City Hospice operates two other resale locations where they sell donated furniture, collectibles, art, household goods, and all manner of other items. We recently dedicated a small section of the resale shop to beads, findings, beading books, and beading tools. All bead related donations that are not used directly in the jewelry project, are packaged and sold in the resale shop. Nothing goes to waste in Heart and Soul Resale Shop.
A couple photos of our bead section in our resale shop. All donated beads are either used in designing our jewelry or sold to others looking for beads for their own crafting projects.
Necklace made for our boutique from a lovely donated pendant and gemstone beads.
Necklace made by a local Kansas City artist, Jenny McClelland. She has designed many necklaces with our donated beads to sell in Story Boutique.
Donated beads of fire agate, mother of pearl, and Swarovski crystal with a wire wrapped poppy jasper stone donut.
Making earrings is always fun to use up miscellaneous beads.
Send Your Jewelry Donations To Kathy
Kathy Corbin’s unique vision, dedication and creativity earned her the 2018 Heart of Hospice Award from the Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association.
Send your jewelry donations directly to Kathy. This makes it easier for her to process the jewelry items she receives. You can also send your goods directly to Story Boutique. They welcome a variety of gently used items. Kathy specializes in the jewelry side of the business.
If you would like to make a donation of finished jewelry, beads, findings, Craft Wire, beading wire, beading tools and supplies, please send your items to:
Kathy Corbin
3700 W. 141 St.
Leawood, KS 66224
You can fit a lot into a flat rate box. Kathy is happy to email you a tax donation form after she receives your donation. You can always email Kathy at Kathy.hospice@icloud.com if you have any questions.
Send Your Donations To Story Boutique
From Story Boutique:
Donate your gently used items to Story Boutique. We welcome clothing, jewelry, accessories, home decor, art and collectibles that are in good condition. To donate items, call Story Boutique at 913.642.2292 or Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care's development department at 816.363.2600.
Story Boutique provides the finest quality merchandise to our customers. We accept new and gently used clothing, shoes, and purses that are in-style and good condition. Some brands we love are Chico’s, Michael Kors, Tory Burch, Peruvian Connection, Soft Surroundings, Banana Republic, Eileen Fisher, J. Jill, Ann Taylor, St. John and Coach. We appreciate home décor donations from elegant and beautiful to simple and casual. Our customers love dinnerware, pottery, accent furniture, lamps, art and decorative pillows. Jewelry is always a favorite find at Story Boutique.
If you want to send your donations to the store, you can send your items to this address:
Story Boutique
3704 W. 95th St.
Leawood, KS. 66206
From Story Boutique:
With each donation to our boutique, you aren’t simply donating a blouse or a piece of jewelry- you are helping another person and their family on their journey. Your generous contribution touches people’s lives, giving them access to Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care’s expert and compassionate end of life support. That’s a powerful gesture.
Each pre-loved treasure brings a story of joy.
Each donor, a story of remembrance.
Each volunteer shares a story of connection.
Each shopper helps create a new story for families in our community.
Everyone has a story.
What will be yours?
To donate items, call Story Boutique at 913.642.2292.
Amazing Jewelry At Story Boutique
Jewelry for Hospice is a volunteer jewelry recycling program created by Kathy Corbin and the Jewelry for Hospice designs are sold exclusively at Story Boutique to benefit Kansas City Hospice.
From Story Boutique:
How does Jewelry for Hospice work?
Individuals and community groups collect jewelry that is sitting unused in jewelry boxes, even if it’s outdated, broken or tarnished. The jewelry may be delivered in person or mailed to Story Boutique at 3704 W 95th St, Leawood, KS 66206.
Volunteers evaluate the jewelry into categories. Those that can be repaired and quickly rehabilitated are put into the jewelry case for sale immediately.
Pieces that are too outdated or broken are taken down into parts, sorted by color and stored for future use.
Volunteers contact bead shops, suppliers and manufacturers around the country, asking for donations of jewelry making supplies like wire and findings needed to make jewelry. (Sometimes they even send pieces ready to sell!)
Volunteer artists create new, original and unique necklaces, earrings and bracelets using donated materials — creating beauty from what might have been consigned to the junk bin.
Jewelry for Hospice designs are sold exclusively at Story Boutique.
Stay tuned for online sales of special pieces!
From Story Boutique:
How can you help?
Go through your old jewelry box and send us anything you no longer want.
Organize a jewelry collection drive at work or with an organization.
If you own a bead shop or are a supplier, send us supplies and findings.
Volunteer with Story Boutique.
Volunteer as a jewelry artist.
Shop at StoryB!
Below, Kathy discusses her organization and shares some jewelry she has created.
I would like to thank the Soft Flex Company once again for another great donation! I thought I would share with your readers what we have been doing with the Soft Flex Beading Wire... my absolute favorite beading wire!
I have been volunteering at Kansas City Hospice since 2013. In 2015, I started “Jewelry for Hospice”. This is a fundraising project to support the Hospice House at Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care. I initially invested my own money to purchase beads and supplies and started making jewelry. I donate the finished pieces to Hospice where they are sold in their resale shop. All of the proceeds from the jewelry sales support the Hospice House and related services.
The jewelry I made sold quickly and I could no longer personally supply the materials to keep up with the demand. I began contacting bead suppliers all over the country for assistance and the response has been amazing! Everyone wanted to help!
Several times a year the Soft Flex Company has very generously donated to our project. We could not have made all the jewelry without the crucial beading wire they have given us.
Kansas City Hospice can always use donations of finished jewelry or beads and supplies. The finished jewelry donations keep our jewelry cases stocked while I am making new pieces. All jewelry donations are used in one form or another. If an item isn’t salable, it is either cleaned and repaired or taken apart to re-purpose. It’s a great way to recycle.
Join our Facebook group – VIB. Stay in the know. Stay up to date. From our bead shows to our video shows and sales, you can stay in touch with us. The community is full of artistic and helpful beaders and crafty people. Inspire and be inspired. Share your pictures and get the beading bug from others!
Visit the Soft Flex Company YouTube Channel!
Blog contributor Thomas Soles loves Jazz Age writers and crunchy french fries. His favorite gemstones are Lapis and Pietersite. His favorite hobby is day dreaming. And his favorite mustache is Freddie Mercury's. As you can see, he has a healthy (or possibly unhealthy) sense of humor. You can write to him at Thomas@SoftFlexCompany.com