Furniture donation

Cedarville University will donate desks, chairs, bunk beds and dressers that it no longer uses in its residential housing to the Emerge Recovery Trade Initiative (ERTI) in Xenia. The donated items have an estimated value of $20,000 and will be delivered to the ERTI campus May 9-10.

For ERTI, the items will furnish several housing areas, including one for young people aging out of the foster care system who seek shelter and a support system as they adjust to the adult world. Also, men and women in recovery who come to ERTI for holistic care will benefit from the furniture.

Elaine Bonner, ERTI’s director of philanthropy, said, “We were thrilled to work with Cedarville University, a faithbased organization that, like us, helps build people up by giving them purpose.”

ERTI, which provides transformational housing, job training, and pathways to employment for individuals aging out of foster care and men and women recovering from substance use disorders, is set to open in phases throughout 2022 and the first quarter of 2023 on the former Greene County Career Center’s 48-acre campus.

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