Weinberger’s Furniture & Mattress Showcase, a 90-year-old business with locations in Greensboro and Augusta, celebrated September as its 2025 Customer Appreciation Month.
To commemorate the occasion, the company donated 5% of its sales on Sept. 13 and 26 to the cities’ Habitat for Humanity chapters.
The business has hosted its annual Customer Appreciation Month for several years, but is working with Habitat for Humanity for the first time.
Shortly before the Sept. 13 event, the business issued a press release with a statement from Karly Weinberger, vice president of Weinberger’s Furniture & Mattress Showcase. She addressed the customer appreciation month and the decision to collaborate with Habitat for Humanity.
“We’ve been honored to serve families in Augusta and Lake Oconee for decades, and Customer Appreciation Month is our chance to say thank you to the community that continues to support us,” Weinberger said in her statement. “By partnering with Habitat for Humanity, we’re not only celebrating our customers but also helping provide safe, affordable housing for families in need.”
According to Weinberger, the company likes to maintain involvement within the community and look for things that “align” with their work.
Weinberger’s raised approximately $1,000 for Habitat for Humanity during its Sept. 13 event.
“We did feel like Habitat for Humanity was a good fit for us since they help [build homes for individuals in need,” Weinberger said. “We’ve already given back to other [programs] that provide beds and things like that, so we do align ourselves with things that are very close to our hearts.”
As a nonprofit organization, Habitat for Humanity’s primary purpose is to assist individuals with affordable housing needs.
The organization initially focused on building affordable housing but has expanded its scope over the past few years to include multiple areas, such as repairs.
Greene County’s Habitat for Humanity has built 82 homes since its founding in 1997, and has three more homes under construction.
Elaine Mathews, executive director for Greene County’s Habitat for Humanity, says that Weinberger’s reached out to the nonprofit a few weeks before their customer appreciation event. She hopes the collaboration will help spread the word about Habitat for Humanity’s work in the local community.
“In a small town, you would think everybody’s heard from us, you know, but there’s so much new construction and people moving here and things like that, so not everybody knows that we exist,” Mathews said. “Outreach is important, and so, anytime we partner with an organization and they use their social media to show their support for us, it gets our name there; and we need our name out there for many reasons, as our houses are built with a lot of volunteer labor.”
Mathews says that there is a variety of resources that Habitat for Humanity could use the benefits for, once they receive the financial donation from Weinberger’s. She mentioned that the benefits could also help train families through the program or purchase meals for a household.
With the end of the customer appreciation events, Mathews hopes to see Weinberger’s events expand and would like to collaborate with the business again in the near future, as the nonprofit has with other local businesses. She says that partnering with Weinberger’s could allow community members to donate more household items to Habitat for Humanity.
“I just hope it grows, and I could see them continue to let people know that they can donate their items here,” Mathews said. “I would love to see a Weinberger day of service, on our build site, or anything like that where they can help as a whole; if the employees at Weinberger come out and actually touch what they’re doing, that’s going to help them support the cause, and continue talking about it to customers.”