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Just wondering if any of you have donated solid surface work to any charity fundraiser. We have one upcoming in our area, and I was thinking about donating a kitchen job. Not sure of all the pitfalls to protect myself with as far as tear-out if replacement, plumbing ect. Just wondering if any of you have done this and if it went well. It would be a great PR event, that is why I’m thinking about it…..
KC
KC,
Cutting boards, coasters and the like for Church, social, and Rotary -type groups mostly.
We participated in the Fab 4000 program with DuPont. 39 vanity tops, I tink.
If it sounds worth doing, do it. But do it because you believe in the cause, not for publicity, tax wrtie-offs, etc.
Just my opinion.
Tom
Tom, I have always believed in and supported this Charity. I just thought it was time to kick the donations up a notch at this event.
It’s is for Ronald McDonald House…. 🙂
That sounds like a very worthwhile cause, as far as I can see. We have helped them in the past.
You might want to check with yuor supplier. For national charities, they may have a material donation program.
Tom
Have your supplier donate the material and you the labor. That way you both get recognition for the project. If you are doing it for the publicity, you may be dissappointed. Countertops are typically not really mentioned in the mix when it is time to talk about who supported the project. For some reason the skip right over the CT people.
I agree with Tom, do it cause you want to and hopefully the icing will be a job or two.
no, I’m not doing it for the PR, that is just something that comes along with it.
I have already contacted my Avonite supplier, probably will my Staron rep. has anyone ever received any material from a supplier for National Charities?
KC
We are thinking about doing this for the local Habitat House, if you have any luck with suppliers I would be interested to hear.
Thanks
Chris
Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if the FabNet community could shame them into it.
But seriously, I doubt that some of your suppliers will have a problem with a nationally recognized charity.
Chris,
Be careful about doing SS for a Habitat house. Our community did one and people/volunteers commented about such a “luxury” for those homes…… soon the rumor was those houses was getting granite tops..
Kelsey, the Ronald McDonald house is an awesome group to give to. What they do for a community is priceless.
My experience with Habitat for Humanity has been excellent. We have actually built and donated conference room tables for the conference room here in Omaha. We build vanity tops every now and then and donate them. We have had great support from the manufacturers and from the people at Habitat. We have gotten alot of mileage out of them and several referrals.
Mory
Had a new slant on the Habitat house donation today. The neighbor of a client, who was in the home while we were discussing her tops. Said she had no probloems with her current Corian, she just hated the color. It came with the house.
She asked me if we ever took anything as a kind of “trade in” I told her no, but that it might be a neat opportunity to work with Habitat, if the tops could bee re-worked to fit.
Maybe, maybe not. But atleast something to think about.
Chris
We used to build Habitat tops during our Solid Surface training classes. I felt it was better than building tops and throwing them in the dumpster. It stopped when they began to complain about not getting the color they wanted. I told them upfront the color was based on what I had laying around not the whole 72 colors we offered. I guess getting free tops was not enough. It is a shame, it was nice program for a while.
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