1. Knowwhat’s happening this week and in the near future
   • Pickup schedule
   • Drop-off appointment schedule (regardless of if they’re filled since people can sign up until the night before)
   • Client appointments
     • How many and when?
     • Are we serving more per week soon? If so, we need to make sure there are enough household goods sorted, furniture inventoried, and uploaders to upload.
   • Volunteers
     • Do all shifts have a sufficient number of volunteers? If not, other shifts may need to compensate.
     • Are there any upcoming groups?
       • When are they coming?
       • How many are coming? If it’s a large group, make sure enough tasks are saved for them or use the opportunity to schedule a bigger project (e.g. dumpster).
       • What is the makeup of the group? (age, supervision, comfort level, experience, skills)
       • Are they paying for a certain activity? (e.g. furniture build)
       • What are our past experiences with the group? Do they work quickly? Do they require additional guidance?
2. Determine if there are any pressing needs.
   • Are any unprocessed items overflowing, making it unsafe or cluttered? (e.g. bed frames, rugs, linens)
   • Are we low on anything we have that just is not processed yet or needs to be pulled from overflow?

Possible Tasks #

Weekly #

• Process furniture
• Sort households goods
  • Raw sort – go through incoming donations and put away on shelves (i.e. don’t make into sets/kids and inventory)
  • Appliances/electronics – test, clean, inventory
  • Linens – inspect, measure, put away or make into sets, inventory
  • Starter kits, silverware sets, dish sets, glass sets – assemble, inventory
• Pull orders
• Paint & repair

Regularly, but not necessarily weekly #

• Process bed frames
• Process rugs

Cleaning/Organization #

• Showroom inspection – check furniture in the showroom for loose knobs, drawers that need to be emptied, etc.
• Break down and put away boxes
• Condense packing material under sorting tables
• Take “small bulk” (items that are too big for trash cans but too small for the trash pile) to dumpster
• Take small items from trash pile to dumpster
• Condense trash pile, but leave small smashable items accessible for Smash N Splash
• Reorganize mattresses/box springs

Plan Template #

Overview #

• Add any additional shifts and groups
• Blank indicates usual shift
• Orders
  • Number of orders
  • If any should NOT be pulled
  • If any won’t be ready at the start of the shift but need to be pulled anyway
• Inventory
  • Includes any other moving tasks (e.g. clean out trash furniture from repair area)
  • Specify priorities, if any
• Sorting
  • Specify priorities

Structure #

Sample Plan #