Furnish Hope and The FBI
Moving Scam Leads to Massive Furniture Donation to Furnish Hope
Story by Central Oregon Daily
Bookshelves. A stuffed animal. A trampoline.
Just a few of the items that could be spotted peeking out of the piles of household goods in the Furnish Hope warehouse Thursday morning; a donation from an unexpected source.
It all started last week, when director Megan Martin picked up the phone.
“I got a phone call from the FBI," she said. "We do furnish homes for people that are going through the relocation services with the FBI, and so it seemed like it was probably a referral call.
"It turned out that they were calling to say hey, we have 100 households of furniture that we would like to donate to you. I was literally like, ‘what?! Did I hear you correctly?'"
The call came at the perfect time, just as the organization had been running out of new items to disperse among the 15-20 homes they furnish for free each week
