ReStore — Shopping for New & Used Building Materials & Tools

• Tool drives are held to collect new and used hand tools, power tools, landscaping equipment and other tools.
• Many tools are placed directly into service on our job sites. All other tools are sold through the ReStore, providing income to support our mission to eliminate poverty housing.
• Tool Drive Flyer
• Tool Drive Information Sheet

• As the tool drive organizer, post materials and pictures about Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity, promote the tool drive, publish and distribute our "needs list”, and provide barrels, bins or boxes for collecting donations.
• The needs list provides a “shopping list” for the folks who will purchase one or several new tools to donate, depending upon their means.
• At the same time, you encourage folks to go through their workbench, tool kit, and garage looking for duplicates, items they haven’t used in years, and that perfectly good power tool that has been collecting dust ever since they got a newer, better version for Christmas or Father’s Day!
• This is also a great opportunity to put a departed loved one’s treasured tool set back into good hands, for the benefit of the community.
• Once the collecting is completed, you arrange to transport the donations to us at a pre-determined time, help unload the materials into our intake garage, take lots of pictures, and celebrate! For larger collections, Habitat may be able to arrange a pickup. Contact us by email: restore@clevelandrestore.org or call: 216.429.3631 ext. 238.

• A typical needs list includes items such as: hammer, pliers, tin snips, ratcheting screwdriver with multiple bits, 20 foot tape measure, framing square, carpenter's pencils, adjustable open-end wrench, cat's paw, buddybar, exact-o knife, drywall knife, drywall rasp, keyhole saw, wire brush, chalk line set, extension cords,carpenter's level, cordless drill/driver, reciprocating saw, circular saw, DeWalt driver bit set, Contractor Series paintbrushes and rollers, gas-powered edger/line trimmer, etc.

Recent Donors

• Below is a list of a number of the groups and organizations that have coordinated Tool Drives that have supported Habitat and our mission efforts
  • EDS
  • Gesu High School
  • Cleveland State University Rec Center
  • Cleveland State Univerity - American Planning Association (APA) Chapter
  • Baldwin-Wallace College
  • John Carroll University
  • St. Joseph's Youth Group (Avon Lake)
  • St. Paul Lutheran Church
  • East Shore United Methodist Church
  • Church of The Saviour
  • Trinity Cathedral
  • eBlueprint
  • Amanda Hassan - Gilmore Academy
  • Ohio Electronic Life Safety & Security Association (OELSSA)
  • Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

"You wouldn't imagine how many people came by with tools in hand for our tool drive - it was a great way for us to give back to our community."

-- Erin Aleman, Graduate Assistant
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs Cleveland State University

Ohio Electronic Life Safety & Security Association Tool Drive