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A charity shop or thrift shop is a retail establishment run by a charitable organization to raise money.

Charity shops are a type of social enterprise.

They sell mainly used goods such as clothing, books, CDs, DVDs and furniture donated by members of the public, and are often staffed by volunteers.

Because the items for sale were obtained for free, and business costs are low, the items can be sold at competitive prices.

After costs are paid, all remaining income from the sales is used in accord with the organization's stated charitable purpose.

Costs include purchase and/or depreciation of fixtures (clothing racks, bookshelves, counters, etc), operating costs (maintenance, municipal service fees, electricity, heat, telephone, limited advertising) and the building lease or mortgage.

Fundraising or fund raising (also known as "development") is the process of gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies (see also crowd funding).

Although fundraising typically refers to efforts to gather money for non-profit organizations, it is sometimes used to refer to the identification and solicitation of investors or other sources of capital for-profit enterprises.

A donation is a gift given by physical or legal persons, typically for charitable purposes and/or to benefit a cause.

A donation may take various forms, including cash offering, services, new or used goods including clothing, toys, food, and vehicles.

It also may consist of emergency, relief or humanitarian aid items, development aid support, and can also relate to medical care needs as i.e. blood or organs for transplant.

Charitable gifts of goods or services are also called gifts in kind.

A partnership is an arrangement where parties, known as partners, agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.

The partners in a partnership may be individuals, businesses, interest-based organizations, schools, governments or combinations.

Organizations may partner together to increase the likelihood of each achieving their mission and to amplify their reach.

A partnership may result in issuing and holding equity or may be only governed by a contract.

Partnership agreements can be formed in the following areas:

In economics, utility is a measure of preferences over some set of goods (including services: something that satisfies human wants); it represents satisfaction experienced by the consumer of a good.

The concept is an important underpinning of rational choice theory in economics and game theory: since one cannot directly measure benefit, satisfaction or happiness from a good or service, economists instead have devised ways of representing and measuring utility in terms of measurable economic choices.

Economists have attempted to perfect highly abstract methods of comparing utilities by observing and calculating economic choices; in the simplest sense, economists consider utility to be revealed in people's willingness to pay different amounts for different goods.