The co-owner of the SHADOW Box non-profit thrift store in Taylorville was Tuesday’s guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Taylorville Kiwanis Club at the Moose Lodge.
Keith Boston visited with the Kiwanis Club, sharing how he and his wife Shannon founded the non-profit organization and store in 2005 on the Taylorville square.
The 501C3 non-profit first benefited the SHADOW Home for Women and Children in Taylorville. Boston said that due to the continued growth of the store, it’s now able to help fund not only the SHADOW Home, but Food Pantries in Taylorville, Edinburg, and Kincaid.
Boston shared his wife’s passion for not only raising money for the SHADOW Home but to help the community.
The non-profit business closed in 2008, re-opened in 2011 in the former Free Methodist Church building on South Shumway. It then moved to larger quarters in the former Brown and Sons building on Springfield Road in 2016. Boston told the Kiwanis Club the move to the Springfield Road location enabled their venture to post growth of 10 to 25-percent per year, including when they re-opened after the COVID shutdown in spring 2020.
The SHADOW Box employs 7 people, and continues to accept furniture and clothing donations.
The Taylorville Kiwanis Club The Taylorville Kiwanis Club is part of a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time. Weekly meetings are held Tuesdays at noon at the Taylorville Moose Lodge. For information on the club, go to taylorvillekiwanis.com.
