Goodwill Auctions


Storage Partnerships Support Charities


By Jennifer Barnett


Gives, a sister organization to his online storage auction website, StorageAuctions.com. StorageGives.org presents an opportunity for businesses to make a positive impact on those who need help both in the U.S. and around the globe. Bickford has said regarding Storage Gives, “We are


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facilitating a platform to connect the storage industry to worthy causes to make an impact in lives all over the world.” Through StorageGives.org, self-storage owners and


operators are able to donate a percentage of their online auction proceeds to charities that have been vetted by Bickford and his team. Charities like Shriner’s hospital, Homes for our Troops, and Autism Speaks.


A Caring Campaign “He had me at Autism Speaks,” says Jennifer Barnett,


COO at Absolute Storage Management (ASM), a third- party self-storage management company based out of Cordova, Tenn. Barnett’s nine-year-old son, Elijah, was diagnosed with autism at age three. She explained that he


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hat started as a business partnership has devel- oped into a mission to collectively impact people in need. In 2020, Lonnie Bickford launched Storage


was non-verbal, lacked coordination skills, and had sensory and other social-emotional issues at an early age. “I will never forget receiving a phone call from his preschool teacher, telling me that she had some seri- ous concerns that he may be on the spectrum. A part of me was terrified, while the other part was so thankful that we had a diagnosis so early and could get him the services that he needed.”


StorageGives.org presents an opportunity for


businesses to make a positive impact on those who need help both in the U.S. and around the globe.


ASM had already begun a partnership with StorageAuctions.com for


its online auctions, so when Donna Morgan-Esquibel, sales manager at StorageAuctions.com, casually mentioned the upcoming launch of Storage Gives, Barnett jumped at the chance to be the company’s very first partner. “ASM was looking for unique ways to show our team, our owners, and


our community that ‘We Care’ in the midst of COVID-19. Partnering with Storage Gives was the perfect way to launch our ‘We Care’ campaign,” says Barnett.


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