| You can set up a non profit organization, if it is not set up as a church you will need to get a IRS non profit status approved first.
Smaller Churches are automaticly covered under teh IRS nonprofit rules.
After you have a non profit status, you can take donations and sell them.
There will be rules as to what you can or can't do with the money since you are operating as a non profit.
There are some that buy from groups like the Salvation Army or Goodwill, they buy the clothes on pallet sales, often they get more clothes or the wrong types and they sell them by the pallet full. Also they sell alot of larger items or bulk items at auction at larger centers.
You can accept things, but if you want to make the items a tax deduction for the people giving it, you will have to be tax exempt, not merely donating part of your money to a tax exempt.
There are several groups that have tried this, but I don't beleive they will stand the IRS test for non profit. Not unless the agency specificly lists you and covers you under thier non profit status, |