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The Healing Powers of Donating
Making a donation of money or materials is an act of altruism – a way of connecting to others and helping to ‘repair the world’. An unforeseen outcome of donating is how therapeutic it can be. This is not surprising … Continue reading
CRAYONS….lots of them!
DONOR SPOTLIGHT: David Stark Design and Production Since 2008, David Stark Design and Production has been donating some of the most inspiring, imaginative and useful donations to MFTA. From feathers, fabric and faux flowers, to glitter, sand and bales of … Continue reading
Rise up for MFTA
The MFTA Nation is a large and energetic one. We love hearing good news stories about our recipients and donors and are always happy to share their work with our friends. Recently, we received a check through Crowdrise an online … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Spotlight, Education Center, Recipient Spotlight
Tagged arts, creative reuse, Crowdrise, fundraising, Project Based learning, schools, teachers
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Trace, Iron, Cut, Repeat
It was just another Thursday night at Materials for the Arts – that is if you consider 17 volunteers sorting, creating iron on patches and preparing 200 donated ski jackets for donation to the Administration for Children’s services, AHRC and … Continue reading
Giving Thanks
In a Thanksgiving spirit, we are thankful for the many donors who always keep the MFTA Nation in mind. Special thanks to October and early November donors who made our warehouse look like a treasure chest: Metalliferous, one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Spotlight, Warehouse Updates
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Designing a better world
Over the summer we received donations from several world renowned NYC institutions. These included The Frick Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum and the MoMA. These renowned institutions also happen to be MFTA recipients! In sync … Continue reading
A new vantage point on vintage clothing
Just a few blocks away from our warehouse, on a dead-end street, inside a non-descript building, is home of Helen Uffner Vintage Clothing LLC (HUVC). Helen Uffner, the unassuming, affable and good-humored owner of one of the largest (and most … Continue reading
The recycle circle
Before Craigslist and Freecycle, before the advent of the internet allowed for e-commerce, MFTA has had a service that linked people who had things with people who needed things. On Direct Donations (DD) donors can create a post on-line and … Continue reading
The MFTA Nation
We are always interested in how our donors find out about us and the MFTA Nation really does have less than ‘six degrees of separation’. We’d like to welcome on board a new donor – Irena Peer– a fabric designer. Irena … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Spotlight, Events, News, Recipient Spotlight, Warehouse Updates
Tagged Carnegie Fabrics, creative reuse, MFTA donor, sustainability
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Donors in the Warehouse: Recap of our 7/20 Lunch + Learn
Last Friday we hosted our fourth Lunch + Learn at the MFTA warehouse for our materials donors. Donors from Arrows Up, Wallauer’s, Marc Jacobs, Film Biz Recycling, and Aronson’s Floor Covering all visited and toured the warehouse. While many of these donors have been donating to … Continue reading
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