Important - Please Read! North Jersey ToolBank
Tobias Fox
From: Michelle Hawkins [mailto:Michelle...@toolbank.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:17 PM
Subject: North Jersey ToolBank
Greetings,
I work with ToolBank USA, a national nonprofit changing communities through "tools" ToolBank USA's vision is to ensure that U.S charities have reliable access to tools. Not metaphorical 'tools' but ACTUAL tools: cordless drills, shovels, wheelbarrows, wrenches, ladders, safety gear, power saws, and DOZENS of other kinds. Not just tools, but LOTS of tools! Sound too good to be true? We've already done it in Atlanta, Charlotte, Baltimore, and Cincinnati. And we're working on it right now in Portland OR and Houston. check out this press release about a $150,000 tool donation from Ames True Temper for both cities! We have awesome corporate supporters that you may have heard of. Stanley Black & Decker, Home Depot, and UPS, to name a few.
ToolBank USA (http://www.toolbank.org/) builds ToolBanks, and we've been asked by a few residents in your area to build a ToolBank to serve North Jersey. Just before your agency, schools, or church's next volunteer project, you would go online and order tools from your ToolBank to equip volunteers and staff. Whether you have 5 volunteers for 5,000 volunteers, your ToolBank's got you covered. Seriously: the Atlanta ToolBank equipped nearly 50,000 volunteers in 2012! Your organization can do bigger projects with more volunteers, increasing your impact in a HUGE way. What's more, your ToolBank will be standing by with tools for use in disaster response. AND: ToolBank tools are available to ANY kind of charitable agency: churches and synagogues, public schools, neighborhood associations, cemeteries, conservancies, 501C3 nonprofits: you name it!
BUT: we ONLY build ToolBanks where residents tell us loud and clear: 'WE WANT A TOOLBANK!'. We need to hear from at least 200 people by March 1st to start building a ToolBank. Please send your friends to www.toolbank.org (click the North Jersey link) to complete a 60 second online survey to help bring TONS OF TOOLS to North Jersey's charities and schools. Help spread the word! Facebook, Twitter - you name it!!
Call me if you have any questions, and thank you!
Michelle Hawkins, Director of Affiliates
ToolBank USA®
Tools for Change.
