by Community Forklift Team | Dec 18, 2025 | Community Building Blocks, Community Giving Programs
Turning surplus new toys into joy for schools and nonprofits Nearly 4,900 new toys found their way to area children through a donation distributed through Community Forklift’s Community Building Blocks (CBB) program. Two local nonprofits and five Title I schools are...
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 celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2025. 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...
