Worcester, MA, March 11, 2004 — Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture recently donated new bedroom furniture to the YWCA of Central Massachusetts Daybreak Shelter for battered women and children. Last year 13,500 people accessed the Daybreak Shelter’s services, including 100 women and children who found a safe haven at the confidential, emergency shelter.
Bernie & Phyl’s Friends In Need program donates furniture to many charitable organizations and homeless shelters across the state. The company regularly donates furniture to Goodwill and Teen Challenge New England and has given over $1,200,000 worth of furniture to these organizations since 2000. Additionally, the retailer has an ongoing relationship with Habitat for Humanity Boston and Nashua to help furnish all of the homes that they build.
Norton, MA, March 2, 2004 — Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture recently donated new sofas to furnish several living room areas at the Salvation Army’s Harbor Light Center in Boston’s South End. This is the second donation that Bernie & Phyl’s has made to the resident addiction treatment facility. In April of 2000, the retailer launched its charitable Friends in Need program with a donation of 125 new Sealy mattresses to the Harbor Light Center.
Bernie & Phyl’s Friends In Need program donates furniture to many charitable organizations and homeless shelters across the state. The company regularly donates furniture to Goodwill and Teen Challenge New England and has given over $1,200,000 worth of furniture to these organizations since 2000. Additionally, the retailer has an ongoing relationship with Habitat for Humanity Boston and Nashua to help furnish all of the homes that they build.
Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture is one of the largest furniture retailers in New England. Based in Norton, MA, the company has six Massachusetts stores in Cambridge, Everett, Raynham (55,000 s/f superstore), Saugus (50,000 s/f superstore), Westboro (50,000 s/f superstore), and Weymouth, and one New Hampshire store in Nashua (86,000 s/f superstore). Bernie & Phyl’s Furniture is among the top 100 furniture stores in the United States, according to Furniture/Today magazine. The company was named the 2002 Retailer of the Year by the National Home Furnishings Association.