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 | 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....
by Community Forklift Team | Jun 19, 2025 | Community Building Blocks, Community Giving Programs
YARD SALE incorporates upcycled salvaged materials from Community Forklift Art Enables resident artist Eileen Schofield loves a yard sale find. “I go to yard sales on Saturdays. I’ve been doing that every Saturday I can for years. That’s my favorite thing to do,” she...
by Community Forklift Team | Jun 12, 2025 | Community Building Blocks, Community Giving Programs
Pi Day (March 14) this year had an extra slice of hands-on learning for students at Piney Branch Elementary School: a Take-It-Apart event! Supported by volunteers from the Takoma Fixit Clinic, groups of students dismantled a variety of small appliances, tools, and...
by Community Forklift Team | Mar 27, 2025 | Community Building Blocks, Community Giving Programs
When The Mandala School, Inc. opened in 2020, they had a vision for a different kind of learning environment. They believed in an immersive, engaging, and individualized educational experience focused on project-based learning in science, technology, engineering,...
