MonkeyWish. CEO Kristi Taylor says that driving through Oklahoma City on Sunday was quite an experience since none of the street lights worked, but otherwise the tornado damage was not unlike what she has seen in Gainesville following hurricanes with signs blown down.Then she arrived in Moore, Okla., site of the EF5 tornado that killed 24 people on May 20."It literally looks like it"s the atomic bomb," she said by phone Wednesday from Moore. "There"s a perfectly good Starbucks and right beside that a 50,000-square-foot movie theater that"s a pile of rubble."The Gainesville resident is spending the week in Oklahoma with her 17-year-old daughter, Lauren, to sign up nonprofits and tornado victims to use her online wish list service to replace household items lost or damaged in the tornado.
MonkeyWish was founded in 2011 to allow people to compile wish lists from any online retailer for gift giving occasions. The company launched a new service for nonprofit organizations Tuesday at MonkeyWish./give with a list of items from Abundant Life United Pentecostal Church of Moore such as bedding and kitchenware to give to nearby families affected by the storm.Taylor said she hopes the service can help avoid the problem of waste because the right people aren"t getting the right things. She said she has seen crates of bottled water destroyed by the elements and food spoiling in coolers by the side of the road."What good are canned goods if you don"t have a plate or a pot?"
Several tornado victims also have set up lists of their own through the company"s regular service to share with their family and friends, she said.The company"s new nonprofit service is available at no charge to any nonprofit organization to help gather needed items."Williams-Sonoma, the San Francisco-based retailer of kitchenware and home furnishings, launched an agrarian product line a year ago featuring designer chicken coops."We're selling them from Seattle to Boston to Florida," said Allison O'Connor, the company's vice president of merchandising.The marketing program was developed in part to satisfy customer demand for safe, wholesome foods, O'Connor said."Having farm fresh eggs is a new experience for a great many people," she said. "People are looking at chickens more as family pets Create Visual Appeal With Marble Kitchenware — as extensions of their family. We're up to nine coops now and will be introducing a couple more next month."
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