Community Forklift: a lending library for your home!

Community Forklift: a lending library for your home!

Do you use Community Forklift as a lending library for your home? We really hope you will! Home improvement spending has risen steadily over the past decade. Americans love to redesign their homes and change out materials like cabinets, furniture, and lighting...
Meet Andrew in the Lighting Department

Meet Andrew in the Lighting Department

Keeping thousands of lights out of the landfill — one fixture at a time. Did you know that in 2020, Community Forklift redistributed 3,819 light fixtures to the community? That’s a lot of lights saved from the landfill — ceiling fans, sconces, lamps,...
Nominate Community Forklift for BEST GREEN BUSINESS!

Nominate Community Forklift for BEST GREEN BUSINESS!

Your favorite local salvage warehouse needs your help defending our Best Green Business title in Washington City Paper’s annual poll! You’ve named us Best Green Business every year since 2014 and we’d love it if you did so again! This year’s...
An Earth Day Thank You

An Earth Day Thank You

Sitting outside on a cold and windy April Day at Community Forklift, I spy cardboard tumbleweed as the breeze picks up detritus from someone loading building materials into their truck. The ground cover here is a mix of industrial odds and ends and bits of leaves,...
Join our Board of Directors!

Join our Board of Directors!

PLEASE NOTE: Applications for our Board of Directors are now closed. Thank you for your interest! March 15, 2021 Community Forklift is seeking extraordinary people to join our Board of Directors to guide us into our next era of success and community empowerment....