Spring Fundraiser for Sustainable Energy Distribution
Monday, March 6th, 2006 (Events)
The Forest Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit registered in North Carolina recently purchased Carolina Biodiesel, Inc. (a non-profit started by Bo Lozoff and Human Kindness Foundation), acquiring a 2800 gal., GMC Top-kick tanker truck in the deal. The tanker, having previously resided in up-state New York (brrrr…!), has found warmer climes for its home and is in desperate need of repair, having suffered from salt damage and neglect. The Foundation will be conducting a fundraiser over the next month to have the tanker truck repaired (specifically sandblasted, primed and painted), so that it can continue its life in service to the organization’s sustainable livelihoods mission, distributing biodiesel fuel in the Triangle.
The Foundation will be working with Chapel Hill High School environmental studies students and mechanics class to have a mural painted on its side, as a part of our effort to teach about sustainable energy and develop a curriculum on the subject of biodiesel. We need your help to raise approximately $5,000 and hope to have the tanker sandblasted, repaired, primed and repainted by Earth Day 2006. We are offering space on the tanker truck for businesses that want to advertise and will honor donors with their name on our website and in our marketing literature. Also, we are doing a number of events, tabling at conferences and festivals in the area over the next few months, and will be selling and raffling off several beautiful Mercedes diesel cars ready to run biodiesel (including a beautiful 300CD Coupe and 300D Sedan both with low miles and near mint bodies).
If you are interested in helping, donating or participating in the fundraiser or raffle and diesel sale, contact us at:
info@theforestfoundation.org
or
919.957.1505
Thank you and “may the lard be with you!”