I would love to see you jump on the band wagon and tell your members about a not for profit/non profit grassroots group. Freecycle members pay it forward each day by giving their unwanted or unneeded items to those who can use them.

We are now international as well; as more and more groups open each day. We now number at nearly 200,000 members with over and 900 groups. Pretty amazing since we have no budget for advertising, no money for anything.

We have done this by just word of mouth, as I hope telling you about it will do. The readers of your newsletters and web site will love this idea. The reason it works is the complete simplicity of it. Our mantra is " Keep It Free, Legal and Appropriate for all Ages" That is pretty much it in a nutshell.

We hope that by reusing, recycling and freecycling our unwanted items, we can do our part to help take the huge load off of our landfills. Freecycle has been featured and mentioned in places such as People, Time, Newsweek just to name some of the bigger publications.

We hit local papers each day all over the world. This was started by a man from Tucson, named Deron Beal. He works for a recycling company there, and saw the tremendous amount of items that still had life in them hit the trash dumps.

With so many on tight budgets, this does more than that; though not a charity, we see so many random acts of kindness every day.

Check out a google search or just look at the press releases on the main site located at http://www.freecycle.org/ People can find a group near them to join, if no group exists simply contact the moderator of the one nearest to you and ask about forming a group in your town. . Right now we operate mainly through yahoo groups, as they are free, so just within our budget of zero dollars. All groups are ran by local volunteer moderators, we have a mentor group that helps new groups get up to speed.

You may reach me via Email or by phone. Thanks

Charlotte Hess List

Owner/Moderator

Brevard County Freecycle