There mission: “to build a global gift-building movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our countries while helping our members strengthen the greater community.”
The Freecycle Network is a grassroots and completely non-profit movement for people and people to get stuff for free in their towns. Started by one person, Deron Beal, on May 1, 2003, he started this organization with 40 members to friends and some local non-profits. /a>. This time there was little profit that recycling made for people in the Tucson AZ area. Mr. Beal and the other members of the crew after a time saw many good things that were perfectly seen as discarded items and found themselves taking the items and going around to various charities and non-profits to see if they could use them. However, they knew they couldn’t do all that running, which is when freecycle.org did it.
His concept of free giving and receiving has spread to more than fifty countries in a thousand local groups and more than a million members. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer, so to see if your group has a town, go to the site and search or browse through the groups. If there isn’t a group in your town, you can start one. I was thinking of starting one in my town, since there isn’t one.
For questions about starting a circle, you can email them to [email protected]. You will also be able to offer more than just group control such as Mentor Mods Team Member (MMods), Member Graphics, New Group Approver Team Member (NGA), Group Outreach and Assistance Team Member (GOA), Trademark Member (TM Team), Interim Mod Team Member (IMod Team). The website has more details about these volunteer positions.
Use Freecycle after you’ve signed up and join a local group. Depending on what you want to do, or allow, you will need to send an email to your yahoo groups. Find the email or password “Masons” on the group site and click on it.
This network of giving without strings attached is a great way to restore the sense of generosity that has been diminished. our communities. Thanks to the efforts of Freecycle, they estimate that fifty tons of (perfectly good) garbage a day will not end up in landfills. This is also good for our communities.
Freecycle is incorporated in Arizona as a non-profit, their application for federal non-profit status, 501(c) 3 ruling, is still pending, this media at the time all donations made to the Freecycle Network are not tax eleifend Of course, if you have kept the necessary papers, your donations made after July 2004 could be cured tax deductible Once the IRS approves its non-profit status. If you plan to do this check with Freecycle and the IRS to make sure you can.
There are some rules, and I suggest following them if you want to stay in the group. You kick after two strikes. The rules are:
One: The item must be free, Legal and Appropriate for all ages, Two: No Posting the same “wanted” Posting More than once a month, Three: No Politics, No Spam, No Money, No Personal Attacks/Rubbishness, No Proselytizing/Religion, Four: No Business, There are a few, but these are the basics.
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Network™, P.O. Box 294, Tucson, AZ 85702
