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Volunteer For the Baltimore Free Store
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- 30 Mar 2005
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- 30 Mar 2005 06:49:31 PM
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Become a part of an organization whose goals are to provide quality free goods to people who need them while at the same time promoting reuse and the gift economy.
Become involved in the communities in Baltimore City who have been left behind and forgotten by the exploits of a capitalist system that thrives off of racism, fear, and ignorance.
Help to bridge the gap between a majority white activist community and a majority African American impoverished city.
Be a part of the dialouge for change. Help to destroy racist myths that exist on all sides.
The world isn't going to change by holding a sign, it's going to take you creating the change you want to see.
For more information see: www.baltimorefreestore.org or contact us at info-AT-freestorebaltimore.org
Become involved in the communities in Baltimore City who have been left behind and forgotten by the exploits of a capitalist system that thrives off of racism, fear, and ignorance.
Help to bridge the gap between a majority white activist community and a majority African American impoverished city.
Be a part of the dialouge for change. Help to destroy racist myths that exist on all sides.
The world isn't going to change by holding a sign, it's going to take you creating the change you want to see.
For more information see: www.baltimorefreestore.org or contact us at info-AT-freestorebaltimore.org
The Baltimore Free Store Needs Your Help!!
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The Baltimore Free Store will be setting up this Saturday April 2nd at the Collington Square Recreation Center (1409 North Collintong Ave.) located a couple of blocks north of Patterson Park near the intersection of Preston and Patterson Park Avenue. If you would like to help out we need help setting up from 10am to Noon, and then breaking down from 4pm to 5:30pm. In addition, if you have a truck or van we will need help transporting items from our Garage located in Charles Village to the Collington Square Rec Center starting at 9am on Saturday morning. If you can help this weekend please call 410-340-9004. For other volunteer possiblities please see the list below.
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The Baltimore Free Store provides donated or salvaged goods to people within Baltimore City. We target no to low income individuals, but do not deny anyone the right to free items. Many of the items we provide are like ones you would find in a thrift store. Unlike a thrift store, items within the Baltimore Free Store are FREE. Currently, we set up in a space, display the goods we’ve obtained, and give people the opportunity to "shop" around. We don’t want people to feel like they are just being given handouts. Our main objective is to provide free, quality goods to people who need them while giving them the respect they deserve.
The Baltimore Free Store cannot happen without the donation of time and energy by people like you. We need volunteers for every aspect of our organization. Below is a short list of tasks we need volunteers for. If you would like to volunteer please contact us and let us know what you are capable of doing, as well as some sort of time frame when you would be available.
1) Soliciting Donations - We need individuals who can go into the wealthier neighborhoods in Baltimore and distribute flyers asking for donations. This would involve going door to door placing flyers in doorknobs. This could also involve putting flyers up in public places where allowed.
2) Advertising in Set Up Neighborhoods - We need individuals who are willing to go into the neighborhoods we will be setting up in prior to the set up and distribute flyers advertising for the Free Store. This will involve going door to door placing flyers in door knobs. This could also involve putting flyers in public places where allowed.
3) Set Up, Break Down, Transport, Staff - We need individuals who are willing to help transport items from storage to the set up locations, help set up the store, staff the store, and then help break down and take any left over items back to storage. You do not have to be available for all aspects of this process. We mostly need people to help set up and break down.
4) Collect Donations - We need individuals who are willing to help collect donations. Either you are willing to pick up donations with your vehicle, provide your location as a donation spot, or be able to staff one of our donation times at our storage space. Donations at our storage space take place on the weekends during the afternoon hours.
5) Bike Library/Loan Center - Are you passionate about bikes? Are you handy with fixing bikes up? Ever wanted to start a bike collective/library/loan center? Well this may be for you. We are looking for someone who can help head up this portion of our goals. If interested please get in touch with us.
6) General - If you would like to help out in the overall operation of the Free Store we need help there as well. You could help us obtain spaces to set up, make connections with area Non-Profits, generate flyers and web content, and brainstorm on building relationships and better ways to achieve the goals we have set.
7) Your Talent - We are in need of clothes racks to hang clothes on, tables to lay items out on, and storage bins that are easily stackable. If you are talented with tools and would like to build us any of those items it would be greatly appreciated.
Please get in touch with us if you are available for any of the above items. We will not ask too much of you and we are all pretty cool people. The possibilities for growth with this project are limitless. With the amount of stuff that people go through each year, and the amount of stuff people are in need of, this could be a project that expands throughout the Baltimore Metropolitan area and includes multiple locations alongside rotating set ups. Through all of that we will need people who enjoy helping others and are committed to the mission and goal of the Baltimore Free Store.
For more information please see:www.baltimorefreesore.org
**The Baltimore Free Store is run and organized by a group of social and economic justice activists. We are affiliated with no group or organization. Our basic principle is that Capitalism is an exploitative system that produces over consumption, waste, and thrives off of racism, fear, and ignorance to sustain its existence. By promoting reuse and the gift economy we are doing our part to create the society in which we would want to live.
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The Baltimore Free Store will be setting up this Saturday April 2nd at the Collington Square Recreation Center (1409 North Collintong Ave.) located a couple of blocks north of Patterson Park near the intersection of Preston and Patterson Park Avenue. If you would like to help out we need help setting up from 10am to Noon, and then breaking down from 4pm to 5:30pm. In addition, if you have a truck or van we will need help transporting items from our Garage located in Charles Village to the Collington Square Rec Center starting at 9am on Saturday morning. If you can help this weekend please call 410-340-9004. For other volunteer possiblities please see the list below.
******************************************************************************
The Baltimore Free Store provides donated or salvaged goods to people within Baltimore City. We target no to low income individuals, but do not deny anyone the right to free items. Many of the items we provide are like ones you would find in a thrift store. Unlike a thrift store, items within the Baltimore Free Store are FREE. Currently, we set up in a space, display the goods we’ve obtained, and give people the opportunity to "shop" around. We don’t want people to feel like they are just being given handouts. Our main objective is to provide free, quality goods to people who need them while giving them the respect they deserve.
The Baltimore Free Store cannot happen without the donation of time and energy by people like you. We need volunteers for every aspect of our organization. Below is a short list of tasks we need volunteers for. If you would like to volunteer please contact us and let us know what you are capable of doing, as well as some sort of time frame when you would be available.
1) Soliciting Donations - We need individuals who can go into the wealthier neighborhoods in Baltimore and distribute flyers asking for donations. This would involve going door to door placing flyers in doorknobs. This could also involve putting flyers up in public places where allowed.
2) Advertising in Set Up Neighborhoods - We need individuals who are willing to go into the neighborhoods we will be setting up in prior to the set up and distribute flyers advertising for the Free Store. This will involve going door to door placing flyers in door knobs. This could also involve putting flyers in public places where allowed.
3) Set Up, Break Down, Transport, Staff - We need individuals who are willing to help transport items from storage to the set up locations, help set up the store, staff the store, and then help break down and take any left over items back to storage. You do not have to be available for all aspects of this process. We mostly need people to help set up and break down.
4) Collect Donations - We need individuals who are willing to help collect donations. Either you are willing to pick up donations with your vehicle, provide your location as a donation spot, or be able to staff one of our donation times at our storage space. Donations at our storage space take place on the weekends during the afternoon hours.
5) Bike Library/Loan Center - Are you passionate about bikes? Are you handy with fixing bikes up? Ever wanted to start a bike collective/library/loan center? Well this may be for you. We are looking for someone who can help head up this portion of our goals. If interested please get in touch with us.
6) General - If you would like to help out in the overall operation of the Free Store we need help there as well. You could help us obtain spaces to set up, make connections with area Non-Profits, generate flyers and web content, and brainstorm on building relationships and better ways to achieve the goals we have set.
7) Your Talent - We are in need of clothes racks to hang clothes on, tables to lay items out on, and storage bins that are easily stackable. If you are talented with tools and would like to build us any of those items it would be greatly appreciated.
Please get in touch with us if you are available for any of the above items. We will not ask too much of you and we are all pretty cool people. The possibilities for growth with this project are limitless. With the amount of stuff that people go through each year, and the amount of stuff people are in need of, this could be a project that expands throughout the Baltimore Metropolitan area and includes multiple locations alongside rotating set ups. Through all of that we will need people who enjoy helping others and are committed to the mission and goal of the Baltimore Free Store.
For more information please see:www.baltimorefreesore.org
**The Baltimore Free Store is run and organized by a group of social and economic justice activists. We are affiliated with no group or organization. Our basic principle is that Capitalism is an exploitative system that produces over consumption, waste, and thrives off of racism, fear, and ignorance to sustain its existence. By promoting reuse and the gift economy we are doing our part to create the society in which we would want to live.
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