Yearly Chris, Lucy and I give what we are able to to a wide range of charities. And we’re choosy. We do our analysis. And take a look at the data that charities file annually (right here’s a primer).
The next woodworking organizations are ones now we have supported with each time and money. In case you are taken with supporting charitable woodworking organizations, listed below are some to contemplate.
There isn’t any political message in these selections. We do our greatest to assist those that wish to enter the worl of woodworking. The easiest way to make sure the survival of our craft is to widen the web.
Chris has supported this basis, which is affiliated with the Marc Adams College of Woodworking, for greater than 20 years. The inspiration funds a wide range of scholarships, from strictly need-based to navy to younger woodworkers.
Primarily based within the U.Ok., Pathcarvers presents hands-on coaching for a wide range of college students, together with these in drug and alcohol rehabilitation, these utilizing psychological well being providers, low-income households and prisons. You possibly can assist fund their work by the Kieran Binnie Fund for Craft, a fund that we helped launch with the oraganization.
Run by Rob Cosman, the Purple Coronary heart Mission gives woodworking coaching to wounded veterans. You possibly can donate by way of this web page. All donations go one hundred pc to assist veterans.
A Baltimore-based workshop program that gives coaching and help for woodworkers who’re ladies or non-gender conforming. WOO presents all kinds of programs and Open Store Hours. You possibly can donate right here.
This Los Angeles-based group gives coaching and work for individuals experiencing homelessness or poverty. Folks in this system make a wide range of objects on the market within the Would Works retailer. You possibly can donate right here.
This group helps help new chairmakers and toolmakers who’ve historically been excluded from the craft due to their gender, race or different components. We have now sponsored a number of scholarship courses at our store, and can maintain two extra in 2025. You possibly can donate cash or instruments right here.
Pals of the Florida College of Woodwork
This charity funds a wide range of woodworking scholarships based mostly on monetary want or different components. You possibly can donate right here.
Port Townsend College of Woodworking
Donations to this non-profit woodworking college assist help scholarships for a various inhabitants of tremendous woodworking college students. You possibly can donate right here.
— Christopher Schwarz & Megan Fitzpatrick