Where to Donate Kids' Clothes in Portland

Published August 1, 2026 by Ryan Young, founder of ParentKind

If you want the sale to fund your kid's own school, ParentKind offers free porch pickup anywhere in SE Portland. If you'd rather the clothes go directly and for free to a family that needs them, the PPS Clothing Center, Northwest Children's Outreach, and With Love Oregon are strong options.

I want my donation to fund a specific school

ParentKind picks up bags of outgrown kids' clothes right from your porch, free of charge, anywhere in SE Portland. We clean and photograph the clothes, sell them online, and send a meaningful percentage of every sale to the school you choose when you schedule your pickup. It's the only option on this list that funnels meaningful funding to your local school's PTA, with a direct, visible line between your donation and the dollars it generates.

You don't have to be inside the SE Portland porch pickup boundary to take part. Depending on where you live, there are a few ways to get your clothing donation to ParentKind:

• Free porch pickup for families inside the SE Portland service area.
• A convenient drop-off site for families outside the porch pickup boundary.
• A large haul pickup for families outside our boundary who still want the convenience of porch pickup. Rally a few neighbors to combine donations, and ParentKind will schedule a pickup for the group.

Don't have a school picked out yet because your kids are younger? Families with pre-K kids can still donate. Instead of designating a school right away, the funds are held for your family until your child reaches kindergarten, at which point you choose the school.

I want the clothes to go straight to a family that needs them, for free

A few Portland organizations exist specifically to put clothing directly into the hands of families in need, no resale step involved:

• PPS Clothing Center (recently relocated to Marshall Campus) works with Portland Public Schools families who need clothing directly.
• Northwest Children's Outreach distributes clothing for newborns through teens to families across the Portland metro area, along with hygiene items and baby gear.
• With Love Oregon supplies clothing and essentials specifically for children ages 0 to 6 in foster care.
• Rose Haven is a day shelter serving women and children in Portland, and accepts in-season clothing donations for both.

Why aren't consignment shops listed here?

Consignment is a different animal from donation: you're selling your clothes, not giving them away, and the shop keeps the profit instead of passing a share along to a school or cause you choose. That's why it doesn't belong on a list about where to donate. It's also worth knowing that consignment shops are notoriously picky about what they'll accept, which often means bringing in a full load of clothes only to have a good chunk of it turned away on the spot. That's a real time cost for parents who don't have much of it to spare. We've covered Portland's consignment options in a separate post.

What about clothes that are stained, torn, or too worn to donate?

Genuinely worn-out items (soiled, ripped beyond repair, or otherwise unusable) are better routed to textile recycling than left in a donation bag. ParentKind sorts these out at intake and diverts them to textile recycling rather than the landfill, so nothing you hand over ends up as trash. If you're not sure whether something is donation-worthy, the simplest rule of thumb is: if you'd hand it to a friend's kid, it's donation-worthy.