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#PortlandOR - The #ReBuilding Center

#ReuseStore, #RepairClasses and more

#SlidingScale #HomeRepairClasses

Accepting Donated Building and Home Materials, which are sold at low- to no-cost to others.

"What do we accept?

We gladly accept clean, reusable building and home materials that are in good working condition and ready to be passed on to others in the community. Donations should be complete, functional, and free from excessive damage, dirt, mold, or debris.

All donations are accepted at staff discretion based on condition, safety, and current capacity. Thank you for helping keep usable materials in motion and out of the landfill.

WHY DONATE TO THE REBUILDING CENTER?

When you donate materials to the ReBuilding Center, you are supporting affordable home repair and giving your stuff a second life! Instead of hauling things to the dump or posting them for resale online, you can choose to support first-time homeowners, low-income homeowners, and DIYers with low-to-no cost materials so they can improve their homes. You donate the materials, we get them into the hands of people who need them. It's a win win!"

FMI:
https://www.rebuildingcenter.org/

#SolarPunkSunday #Reuse #HomeRepairWorkshops #LowCostBuildingMaterials #ZeroWaste

#PortlandOR - The #ReBuilding Center

#ReuseStore, #RepairClasses and more

#SlidingScale #HomeRepairClasses

Accepting Donated Building and Home Materials, which are sold at low- to no-cost to others.

"What do we accept?

We gladly accept clean, reusable building and home materials that are in good working condition and ready to be passed on to others in the community. Donations should be complete, functional, and free from excessive damage, dirt, mold, or debris.

All donations are accepted at staff discretion based on condition, safety, and current capacity. Thank you for helping keep usable materials in motion and out of the landfill.

WHY DONATE TO THE REBUILDING CENTER?

When you donate materials to the ReBuilding Center, you are supporting affordable home repair and giving your stuff a second life! Instead of hauling things to the dump or posting them for resale online, you can choose to support first-time homeowners, low-income homeowners, and DIYers with low-to-no cost materials so they can improve their homes. You donate the materials, we get them into the hands of people who need them. It's a win win!"

FMI:
https://www.rebuildingcenter.org/

#SolarPunkSunday #Reuse #HomeRepairWorkshops #LowCostBuildingMaterials #ZeroWaste

“No tariffs on #sharing”: #ToolLibraries offer resilience amid federal chaos

by Truthout & Ella Fassler
April 29, 2025

Excerpt: "With the price of materials climbing (or set to), many #DIY projects have become more difficult to finance overnight. But what if Curtin’s friend didn’t also have to purchase pricey tools to complete the project? What if he borrowed them all from neighbors instead, and returned them when he was finished? And what if those neighbors helped him through the project each step of the way?

"This is more or less how tool-lending libraries work. Curtin, who is a volunteer and steering committee member of the nonprofit Rhode Island #ToolLibrary #PVDThings, connects people with the tools and know-how to make daunting do-it-yourself projects more accessible.

"For a #SlidingScale Fee, members of the cooperatively-run library have access to a catalogue of about 1,630 items that have been amassed over the past four or so years through donations. #Tools like the power washers, hammers, drills, cameras, lawn mowers, pet carriers, grills and pop-up tents can be borrowed for one to two weeks. But PVD Things is about much more than just the things.

"Volunteers get to know their neighbors and their stories, and provide guidance if they need help. Those volunteers told me about a local poet who borrows pop-up tents and tables to speed-write poems for passersby, and a surfer who borrowed palm sanders and dust extractors to build a fiberglass surfboard from scratch. Another member built out a camper van with their power tools. Several weeks ago, 30 gardeners borrowed rakes, shovels and pruners en masse for a big clean up party at a #CommunityGarden that had been overgrown for years."

Read more:
https://www.shareable.net/no-tariffs-on-sharing-tool-libraries-offer-resilience-amid-federal-chaos/

#SolarPunkSunday #USPol #SharingEconomy #BuildingCommunity #ToolLibrary #BorrowDontBuy #Cooperatives

“No tariffs on #sharing”: #ToolLibraries offer resilience amid federal chaos

by Truthout & Ella Fassler
April 29, 2025

Excerpt: "With the price of materials climbing (or set to), many #DIY projects have become more difficult to finance overnight. But what if Curtin’s friend didn’t also have to purchase pricey tools to complete the project? What if he borrowed them all from neighbors instead, and returned them when he was finished? And what if those neighbors helped him through the project each step of the way?

"This is more or less how tool-lending libraries work. Curtin, who is a volunteer and steering committee member of the nonprofit Rhode Island #ToolLibrary #PVDThings, connects people with the tools and know-how to make daunting do-it-yourself projects more accessible.

"For a #SlidingScale Fee, members of the cooperatively-run library have access to a catalogue of about 1,630 items that have been amassed over the past four or so years through donations. #Tools like the power washers, hammers, drills, cameras, lawn mowers, pet carriers, grills and pop-up tents can be borrowed for one to two weeks. But PVD Things is about much more than just the things.

"Volunteers get to know their neighbors and their stories, and provide guidance if they need help. Those volunteers told me about a local poet who borrows pop-up tents and tables to speed-write poems for passersby, and a surfer who borrowed palm sanders and dust extractors to build a fiberglass surfboard from scratch. Another member built out a camper van with their power tools. Several weeks ago, 30 gardeners borrowed rakes, shovels and pruners en masse for a big clean up party at a #CommunityGarden that had been overgrown for years."

Read more:
https://www.shareable.net/no-tariffs-on-sharing-tool-libraries-offer-resilience-amid-federal-chaos/

#SolarPunkSunday #USPol #SharingEconomy #BuildingCommunity #ToolLibrary #BorrowDontBuy #Cooperatives