Fort Worth Community Collaborative

Founded in 2022, Fort Worth Community Collaborative (FWCC) is a community closet in its truest form — repurposing excess clothing to eliminate clothing insecurity in North Texas. As a registered 501(c)3, we connect people through free access to quality clothing while reducing textile waste and building community through dignity, sustainability, and shared care.

To date, over 30,000 pounds of clothes have been distributed to the community instead of being sent to a landfill. This number only grows faster every month!

What We Do

• 🛍 Open Shops - Every 1st and 3rd Saturday, our storefront is open to the public (9am–1pm) — no questions asked.
• 💵 Donation-Based Mondays - Every Monday (10am–2pm), community members can access unlimited clothing with a $5 donation — supporting weekday operations while keeping services accessible.
• 🔐 Emergency Clothing Lockers - Weekly access point for partner agencies, schools, and service providers to fulfill urgent clothing needs for their clients.

What You Can Do

As summer starts to turn to autumn and makes way for winter, we could use your support to ready our shopfront and storage to get the warmest clothes to our shoppers! 

Our latest pain points have included: 

• 🤝 Overflow of clothing donations - We need funding to build a new donation spot for clothing drop-offs, and volunteers to help us stay on top of sorting.
• 🔐 Restricted capacity to respond to emergency needs - We need to buy more lockers to store and distribute partner emergency bags, and volunteers to help us prepare them.
• 💸 Covering operational costs of our programs - All of FWCCs programs are implemented solely by volunteers, but one of our goals is to have at least two paid staff and continue to build our coalition of dedicated volunteers to help us grow and reach more people.

If you can give financially, donate any amount you'd like (our most common is $5!) or cover any of the following needs:

• Fund an emergency bag for one of our partners - $35
• Fund a month of storage - $75
• Fund a social sort night to prepare the shop - $160
• Fund an entire open shop day - $500
• Buy us lockers to serve more partners - $600
• Buy us a PTAC unit to keep our volunteers warm - $600
• Cover our volunteer management software for a whole year - $1,200
• Help us build a large weather-proof donation station so we can collect more coats, sweaters, and items you've been meaning to drop off - $3,000

If you can give your time, passion, and good vibes:

• Check out our Open House on September 19th to learn about our volunteer opportunities and get a feel for the space and how we work together.
• Attend a Social Sort Night
• Support on Open Shop Days and $5 events
• Help us put together emergency bags during the week
• Have a volunteer program at your job? We can host corporate teams to sort and prep for shop days and emergency bags.