The Tool Library

Friends, neighbors, green thumbs, and tool heads! We are teaming up with the incomparable Pelion Outdoor Classroom at City Honors School this summer for a paid intership opportunity! 🛠🌿🍑

The intern will work directly with both The Tool Library and Pelion on hands-on community improvement, food access, and volunteer management projects.

Please share far and wide!

PAID INTERNSHIPS ARE RARE! This opportunity was made possible from a grant via New York State Department of Ag & Markets. Know someone home from college or one who stayed local? Know a person whose student loans are kicking in while they're waiting to find that job in degree field? Know a gramma that's spry and patient with GenX and Millennials? All should apply. This does not have age or income limitations. The best candidate will want to learn from BOTH collaborating organizations and will need reliable transportation.

You Screen I Screen We all learn how to repair our window screens at The Tool Library! 😎🤙

Our second Screen Repair Workshop is scheduled for Next Tuesday, June 9th from 6-8PM

Right now we don’t have ANYONE registered and we rrrreally don’t want to cancel this workshop, because we know there are LOADS of people with ripped and torn screens out there!

Is that you?! Then sign up for your seat today: https://givebutter.com/diy-workshop-window-screen-repair-june-2026 (🔗 link in bio)

Is that someone you know?! Then share this post with them!

Cost a barrier? We have scholarship seats available. Just email us at [email protected]

Tool Library Bingo is BACK, baby! 💥💃

We had SO MUCH FUN at our inaugural event, we’re doing the dang thing again.

🗓️ Date: Thursday, June 18th
⏰ Time: 5:30 - 7 PM
📌 Location: Jack Rabbit, 1010 Elmwood Avenue 
💸 Price: $20 for four (4) rounds of BINGO and an ink dauber, $5 for additional sheets

Join us for a fun-filled bingo night at , where good times meet a great cause!

Grab your friends, enjoy delicious food and drinks, and get ready to shout BINGO as you compete for prizes throughout the evening.

Every ticket sold directly supports The Tool Library, helping expand community access to tools, workshops, and repair. 🛠️

🎟️ Tickets available online: https://givebutter.com/tool-libraryjack-rabbit-bingo-copy-2rwfcs (🔗 link in bio) 

Please note tickets MAY sell out and due to capacity, we may NOT be able to offer tickets at the door.

And remember, B 4 you start your next DIY project don’t forget to sign up for a membership to The Tool Library!!!

Our friends at the Winslow Ave F/K Block Club are looking for some extra hands to help in their community garden this weekend!

All flourishing is mutual 🤝🌱🌸

Screen Repair Success! 🪟✅👍

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our first window screen repair workshop and stretched, splined, and spliced their way to over a dozen fully operable screens. 

Special thanks to our board member and screen splining expert Eric for sharing his time and skills. 

If you missed May’s workshop, we’re back on June 9th for part two!

🎟️ Reserve your spot here: https://givebutter.com/diy-workshop-window-screen-repair-june-2026

There’s a strong possibility you’ve already met Nick at one of the Tool Library’s Dare to Repair Cafes, but we wanted to take a moment to introduce him as the newest addition to our staff as our In-Shop Repair Tech! 👨‍🔧🛠️👋

What is a Repair Tech, you ask? Well, in Nick’s words:

“I have held many titles in my career (mechanic, technician, service engineer) but at the end of the day we are fixers. Someone who is curious, observant and willing to learn. As the repair tech for the Tool Library I see my role as someone to keep the tools in the library in rotation. But additionally, to build systems to make the tool library even more sustainable! I will be working with Maddie and Darren to combine my experience of maintaining healthcare technology into a healthy self-sustaining tool repair program.”

We are grateful to Nick and all our volunteer fixers for keeping this community resource up and running. ♻️🧰

Special thanks to our friends at Lutheran Charities of Western New York for supporting our repair program and making this part-time position possible!

You can read more about Nick on our website:
https://thetoollibrary.org/this-months-spotlight-nick-cullis/