About Goods Bank NEO
GBNEO is a nonprofit providing surplus goods to community organizations, to enrich the lives of those they serve, while reducing waste and protecting the environment.
Picture a community where everyone has what they need to thrive.
No one has to make impossible choices between essentials like hygiene products, clean clothes, reading glasses, a bed to sleep in, or shoes that fit their growing children.
Envision nonprofits empowered to focus fully on their mission.
Organizations can access items they need to operate without sacrificing resources meant to directly serve the people who depend on them.
Consider the possibilities when surplus turns into opportunity.
Companies can easily redirect new, quality products from landfills to nonprofits, ensuring these goods reach those who need them most.
At Goods Bank NEO, we see this community — and we’re working to make it happen.
By connecting nonprofits, schools, and faith-based organizations with essential goods, we help those who help others, building stronger communities where everyone has the chance to thrive.
Goods Bank NEO helps bridge the gap between those able to give and those in need of support.
For the community
We enable the community to thrive, be more resilient and help ensure no one is left behind.
For the people
We enable people in need to receive new household goods and basic necessities so they can worry less about simply surviving day-to-day and build hope for their families’ futures.
Sustaining the environment
We enable companies to donate new and overstock goods that otherwise would be scrapped as waste and destined for a landfill.
Supporting nonprofits
We enable nonprofits, schools and faith-based organizations to access at a nominal handling fee the new, quality goods companies donate.
Meet Our Team
FOUNDERS
Judy Payne, Founder
Scott Garson, Founding Board Chair
BOARD
Andre Bryan, Managing Partner, BridgePort Group
Cory Cottrill, Manager, Technical Solutions, Swagelok
Scott Garson, community leader and retired commercial realtor
Sally Ingberg, Principal Consultant, Forming Bridges, LLC
Kathryn Kramer-Gaydos, Partner, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Arnoff LLP
Barbara Langhenry, retired Law Director, City of Cleveland
Carolina Masri, former Executive Director, MedWish International
Josh Mayers, Senior Vice President, KeyBank Real Estate Capital
Eileen Saffran, Founder and former CEO, The Gathering Place and Founder and CEO of MTNStrategies
Shanice Settle, Director, Content & Communications, The NRP Group
Meg Slifcak, retired Director of Real Estate Solutions – Ohio, IFF
STAFF
Michelle Walsh, Executive Director
Andrew Bidwell, Operations Director
Khayree Davis, Engagement Coordinator
Paulette Chambers, Warehouse Associate