The PTA Thrift Shop and the National PTA have reached a mutual agreement that will see the removal of “PTA” from the local thrift shop’s name.

The decision to change the PTA Thrift Shop’s name comes after tension between the thrift shop and the Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools PTA Council. The council sent a request to thrift shop leadership in June 2018 asking that the nonprofit remove the PTA lettering from its name. In response, the PTA Thrift Shop entered a “period of due diligence” regarding the organization’s name.

For decades, the council and thrift shop shared a harmonious relationship that led to store revenues being turned into cash disbursements given to the individual PTAs across the school district. But the council wrote in its request to the thrift shop that the non-profit had changed its mission in recent years beyond solely supporting the PTAs.

The mission statement of the PTA Thrift Shop has expanded in recent years and the operations now includes project grants to PTAs and providing workspace for youth-focused non-profits. The thrift shop opened a new facility on Main Street in Carrboro with the YouthWorx on Main non-profit space opening on the lot adjacent to the thrift shop.

“I am very pleased and excited to be moving forward with a new name and strategy aimed at bringing equity and opportunity to our youth,” said Dawn Edgerton, PTA Thrift Shop board chair, in a press release. “This organization remains committed to supporting local schools through our Project Impact grants, vouchers provided to school social workers for under-resourced families, and by offering below-market office space to the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools.”

The new name is expected to be publicly launched by December 31, 2019 and will “continue to honor the organization’s long history of supporting schools, youth, and families and will enhance the organization’s ability to have greater community impact.”

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