Corporate volunteer partner

RBC

Helping turn empty apartments into homes since 2013.

Partner with Furniture Bank

284

RBC employees

631

Items made home-ready

564

Families supported

Partner since 2013. These figures count every volunteer day in our records.

The partnership

RBC teams, year after year

Some of the dressers and tables families choose in our showroom were made ready by people who spend the rest of their working week at RBC. RBC teams have volunteered with us since 2013, and they are still coming.

The first RBC volunteers came before our Workshop existed, and they helped families choose furniture for their new homes. In 2013 and 2014 alone, RBC teams came 19 times. Since 2023, our records count more than 20 RBC volunteer days.

Most RBC days now happen in the Workshop, our on-site repair space. Teams have assembled IKEA furniture and large dressers, and sanded, painted and reupholstered pieces that needed some care. Recent teams have also tested donated electronics, so everything works when it reaches a home. The volunteers come from across the bank. A Global Procurement team spent its day building new furniture, and a team from RBC Capital Markets has refurbished furniture and tested electronics with us.

Everything RBC volunteers finish goes to the families we serve: newcomers and refugees, people leaving homelessness, and women and children starting over after a shelter stay. A social service agency refers each family to us, and our team helps them choose what their household needs from our showroom.

RBC supports us with money as well as time. The RBC Foundation has given Furniture Bank more than $700,000 since 2013. RBC also encourages its employees to support causes they care about, and many RBC teams have chosen our Workshop. Thank you, RBC.

In the Workshop

Recent RBC volunteer days

RBC volunteers in the Furniture Bank Workshop: two volunteers beside a pair of chairs with green seats, the team posing with oversized tools under the Furniture Bank banner, two volunteers sanding a wooden piece, and two volunteers in aprons beside a light blue chest being painted

September 2026: sanding and painting in our Workshop, and a team photo under the Furniture Bank banner.

RBC volunteers in blue RBC T-shirts at Furniture Bank: a volunteer painting a wooden chair, the team posing under The Workshop sign, two volunteers working on a chair seat, and two volunteers in dust masks holding sanders

May 2026: painting a wooden chair, fixing a chair seat and sanding.

RBC volunteers at Furniture Bank: four volunteers behind a dark wood cabinet, the team posing under The Workshop sign, three volunteers sorting hardware at a workbench, and volunteers assembling a tall dark wardrobe frame

March 2026: sorting hardware and assembling a tall wardrobe frame.

RBC volunteers in the Furniture Bank Workshop: the team holding an oversized saw, wrench and mallet, a volunteer in a Team RBC shirt working at a bench, two volunteers assembling a white shelving unit, and three volunteers smiling beside the Workshop cabinets

February 2026: assembling a white shelving unit in our Workshop.

RBC volunteers in the Furniture Bank Workshop: the team cheering with an oversized wrench, saw and mallets, a volunteer in a toque working at a bench, two volunteers with a mallet and screwdriver beside boxed furniture, and three volunteers posing together

January 2026: assembling boxed furniture with mallets and screwdrivers.

Watch

RBC volunteers on video

RBC volunteers at Furniture Bank (2:38). Watch on YouTube

RBC volunteers at Furniture Bank in 2014 (2:24). Watch on YouTube

For companies like RBC

Ways your company can partner with us

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There is a family in Toronto sleeping on the floor tonight

Bring your team in for a Workshop day like RBC's, or donate the furniture your business no longer needs. Either way, you help us turn empty housing into furnished homes.

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