by Community Forklift Team | Oct 13, 2025 | Community Building Blocks, Community Giving Programs
Community Forklift is probably best known for giving a second life to surplus and secondhand building materials, from tile to appliances to windows and lighting. In 2024 alone, nearly 12,000 pieces of furniture were saved from meeting their end in a landfill, and...
by Community Forklift Team | Oct 3, 2025 | Community Building Blocks, Donating Materials, Events at Community Forklift, News
Having opened its doors in November of 2005, Community Forklift celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year. It’s fitting as part of the milestone commemoration to highlight some of the people, organizations, and businesses that have been essential in the growth and...
by Community Forklift Team | Aug 21, 2025 | News
Millions of tons of building materials are sent to the landfill every year. Fortunately, salvaging and repurposing construction materials is gaining traction as an eco-friendly and cost-effective alternative. Using salvaged building materials in construction and DIY...
by Community Forklift Team | Aug 7, 2025 | Community Giving Programs, Donations, Donor Spotlight, Home Essentials Program
For over four decades, family-owned ABW Appliances has been a go-to resource for homeowners throughout Northern Virginia, DC, and Baltimore looking to spruce up their home. But they aren’t just selling high-quality appliances to renovation-ready homeowners. They’re...
by Community Forklift Team | Jun 26, 2025 | Community Building Blocks, Community Giving Programs
3,013 homes. That’s how many houses Clinton, Maryland-based nonprofit Christmas in April has supported with home improvement help since their founding in 1989. Over the past 36 years, this organization has set out to help the most vulnerable in Prince George’s County....
