{"id":948043,"date":"2026-07-20T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/948043\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:18:24","slug":"philly-aids-thrift-sells-donated-goods-to-support-hiv-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/948043\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly AIDS Thrift sells donated goods to support HIV organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Ever since 2005, this small business has been a community staple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Philly AIDS Thrift has a large assortment of goods, with a mission to donate money to HIV organizations in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">So far, they have raised over $5 million to support people in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;A couple of friends and I started the organization. I like to say that we&#8217;re longtime AIDS activists and lovers of junk, so we kind of put the two together and this is what we created. Here we are almost 21 years later. And so to me, this has kind of been a lifelong passion,&#8221; said Executive Director, Christina Kallas-Saristoglou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also, check out their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyaidsthrift.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Ever since 2005, this small business has been a community staple. Philly AIDS Thrift&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":948044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[381750,11604,5229,10180,1448,2830,1311,86276,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-948043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-381750","tag-aids","tag-america","tag-donations","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-thrift-store","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116953920676992877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}