Hi all,
A quick reminder that we're having our first meeting of the tool lending
library tomorrow (Weds, 5/16) at 6:30 at Calvary. See below.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
thanks,
Michael.
Michael Froehlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 19:16:42
-0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Froehlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: West Philly Tool Lending Library mtg, Weds, 5/16, 6:30p
To: univcity@list.purple.com
Hi all,
Two months ago, I sent the email below about the possibility of starting a tool
lending library here in West Philly. Since then, the Greater Philadelphia
Urban Affairs Coalition (GPUAC) has offered to help with the nonprofit status.
And we have received an extraordinarily generous offer to use a store-front
property in the 4600 block of Woodland Ave for one year.
We're now ready to have our first community meeting to form a steering
committee and move forward.
Please come to our first organizing meeting on Wednesday, May 16, at 6:30pm in
the basement of the Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 48th & Baltimore
Ave.
For more information, please contact me at 215-779-4166 or email me at [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
thanks,
Michael.
Note: forwarded message attached.
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From: Michael Froehlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: West Philly Tool Lending Library
To: univcity@list.purple.com
Hi all,
In Summer 2005, I moved back to West Philly after living on the West Coast for
six years. For the few years that I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, I
belonged to a non-profit tool lending library in Oakland. I would love to open
one in West Philly. I've talked this over with a number of friends and have
gotten generally positive support. If anyone on the list is interested in
helping with this project, could you please email me off-line?
My initial thoughts would be that a library would be housed in a church
basement or other space. Community members would pay $20-$40 in annual dues
(plus a deposit that would mitigate against loss.) It would be stocked with
tools--like yard tools (weed whackers, shovels), hand tools (hammers, levels),
power tools (circ saws, drills), extension cords, ladders, drop clothes, maybe
even craft tools (silk screening tools, pottery tools).
It would target home owners who want to do home repair but do not own their own
tools or industrious tenants (like myself.)
It would be open on Saturday and one or two evenings during the week. Folks
could borrow up to three tools that would be returned the following Saturday.
We would need money and tool donations to get it off the ground and then,
depending on the cost of space, etc, we'd have pretty low operating costs after
that. Maybe a grant or two a year would fill the gap between dues and
operating costs. Other tool lending libraries in the country have received
help from Home Depot or grants from municipal governments to get things started.
I'm especially interested in talking with anyone who might know of a potential
location that would house the tool lending library.
Thank you very much,
Michael Froehlich
(cell) 215-779-4166
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