Furniture Today,
NEW ORLEANS — Retailer Rooms To Go will deliver tomorrow a

full house’s worth of new furniture to a family whose home was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, part of an event celebrating the recent opening of the New Orleans Furniture Bank.

Seffner, Fla.-based Rooms To Go and the non-profit National Furniture Bank Assn. will hold the Saturday event, with RTG’s Metairie, La., store making the delivery to the Kenner, La., home of Veronica Smith, a single mother of four girls.

The delivery is scheduled for 11 a.m. and an in-store RTG event will follow at 4 p.m. to explain the chain’s assistance to families in need here, the efforts of the NFBA and the mission of the new furniture bank.

Cindy Crawford, president of Cindy Crawford Home, which has developed furniture collections with RTG, will attend the event, as will executives from RTG, NFBA, the New Orleans Furniture Bank and the Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Local furniture banks provide used furniture to more than 100,000 families each year. Typical clients are victims of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, mothers and children escaping domestic violence, and working families living below the poverty line.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Rooms To Go has donated 4,000 rooms of furniture to NFBA furniture banks serving evacuees in Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Orlando and Augusta, Ga.

RTG is devoting a portion of Saturday’s sales to the New Orleans Furniture Bank.