As we celebrate our SEVENTH year of sharing, connecting, and learning, help us build towards the future!

With your help year eight will include exciting developments like:

🏠 Securing a forever home for CTL
👷 Launching demonstrations and workshops about tool use and safety
🛠️ Hosting even more repair fairs and free community events
💸 Increasing staff pay and benefits and hiring more staff
⏰ Opening more days and hours

Some memorable milestones from year seven:

📓Completing our first Strategic Plan
🏕️ Winning a large capacity building grant from the Nature Conservancy to grow our camping gear program
🎉 Hosting our first bingo night fundraiser party
🌱Giving away 7,761 free seed packets through our seed library
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Hosting our first interns
📈 Growing our board of directors to include 17 incredible CTL champions
💵 Raising $10,000 from our largest tool sale ever
🎥 We were featured on the Today Show!

Other Incredible Ways to Support Us!

New here? Welcome! The Chicago Tool Library is a 501c3 nonprofit on Chicago's West Side. Our mission is to provide equitable access to tools, equipment, and information to allow all Chicagoans to learn, share, and create. We are a forward-thinking organization hoping to help our city reshape its relationship to ownership, consumption, and creativity.

You can learn more about us by visiting our website: www.chicagotoollibrary.org

EIN: 83-3111020

Chicago Tool Library's SEVEN Year Milestone Campaign!

The more we share, the more we have!

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