YWCA Shop for Good
YWCA Shop for Good is a social enterprise for YWCA Evanston/North Shore located at 1107 Central Avenue in Wilmette, Illinois.
When you shop at YWCA Shop for Good, you reduce waste, get more value for your money, AND support your local community. It’s shopping you can feel good about!
The shop is made possible through your donations, and 100% of profits help support YWCA’s domestic violence and economic empowerment programs for women across northeastern Cook County.
Coming into the Shop? Here are our current safety protocols:
- Mask required to enter the Shop
- Hand sanitizing at Shop entrance is encouraged
- Limit of 4 customers in Shop at one time (25% capacity)
- 6-foot social distancing guidelines are marked off with tape on the sales floor
- For customer safety, we have installed a plexi protective barrier at our check-out counter
Online shopping!
We are excited to offer online shopping at ywca-shop-for-good.myshopify.com, which features our most special, one-of-a-kind items.
We sell new and gently used women’s clothing, outerwear, shoes, boots, purses, jewelry, and accessories. We get new donations daily, and offer a designer section which is continuously restocked with up-to-the minute prestige-label clothing and accessories in excellent condition. We often have brand-new items with manufacturers’ and store tags still attached.
Come and visit! Here are the kind of great items you can expect to find right now — with thanks to our fantastic volunteers for modeling:
Do you have items to donate?
Clean out your closet and bring us your new and gently-used women’s clothing, shoes, accessories and jewelry on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00-2:00 pm at our shop in Wilmette (1107 Central Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091).
You can safely drop-off your donation in FIVE steps:
- Wear a mask .
- Drive to the Shop back door, located in the 11th & Central Parking Lot.
- Buzz doorbell.
- Leave your bags or boxes on the sidewalk area next to the door.
- Take a donation form. You can mail it to YWCA Shop for Good, 1107 Central Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091 or bring it in-person is open.
YWCA Shop for Good gift certificates are finally here! Email us at ywshop@ywca-ens.org or call us at 847-853-8888 with your name, gift certificate details, credit card and billing information. We’ll mail your gift certificate right to your doorstep or schedule a pick-up date at the shop.
We welcome you as a Shop volunteer
Volunteers help the paid staff, working on displays, unpacking donations, selling, or doing whatever is needed. Volunteers are needed both for special sales events or on a regular basis. If you have a sense of fashion and skills in retail customer service, please consider interviewing to join our volunteer team! Volunteers must be willing to commit to a 2-1/2 hour afternoon shift once a week and one 3 hour Saturday shift each month.
Contact us: 847-853-8888 or email ywshop@ywca-ens.org
As a lifelong advocate of women’s rights and social equity, I strongly support the Shop for Good’s purpose. Volunteering at the Shop is a perfect way to fill my newly-acquired free time as an empty nester. In addition, I’ve met a group of strong, kind and interesting colleagues and wonderful customers (not to mention the great and unique clothing finds!)” – Debbie
Store hours:
YWCA Shop for Good is currently open for shopping:
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Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday: noon – 5 pm
- Friday and Saturday: 10 am – 5 pm
Holiday hours:
- December 24: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
- December 25: Closed
- December 31: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
- January 1: Closed
- January 2: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
No-contact donation drop-off hours:
- Tuesdays & Thursdays, noon – 2 pm
Contact information:
YWCA Shop for Good
1107 Central Avenue
Wilmette, IL 60091
Marko Djurovic, Manager
Contact us: 847-853-8888 or email ywshop@ywca-ens.org