Niagara Furniture Bank is a non-profit charitable organization that collects gently used furnishings and houseware essentials from private homes and businesses. The organization emphasizes on the basis that a shelter is not a home without furnishings, as their vision relies primarily on the basis that ‘no one deserves to sleep on the floor.’ Using a social enterprise approach, Niagara Furniture Bank provides these items across the Niagara Region to individuals and families who are referred by organizations such as Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support Programs, Canadian Mental Health Association, Public Health, Family and Children’s Services, YWCA and other shelters and transitional housing referral partners. They also offer an internal referral program for those that fall in the grey area. The organization operates on minimal fees for services to collect, referral agents for delivery and monetary donations from other various community champions.