North Portland Tool Library Future Planning Workshop

The North Portland Tool Library is planning for the future, and we need your help!

Please join us at the Kenton Fire House for good food, good community, and good conversation as we roll up our sleeves and help plan the future of the North Portland Tool Library.

NPTL Visioning Meetings

1) Sunday, July 28th (9:30 am to 4:00 pm)
  and/or
2) Sunday August 3rd (9:30 am to 4:00 pm)

It has been almost four years since the North Portland Tool Library opened its doors, and community support for our organization has been phenomenal.  The time has come to envision the next phase of the NPTL. 

Are you:
-  a member?
-  a local business owner ?
-  a volunteer?
-  a neighbor?
-  a person interested in the Tool Library?  

If you have ideas about how we can build a better Tool Library and a better North Portland, we want your input!  
-  You can come for both days, one full day, or even a half day if your time is tight.
-  Each meeting will start on Sunday at 9:30 am with coffee and bagels
-  The meeting will end no later than 4:00 pm, with a lunch break  (lunch will be provided).  

Bring your energy and ideas, we will provide the tools, and together we will build an organization and a community that is truly great!

Please RSVP so we are sure to have enough food for everyone:

-  Online at (our evite here) or
-  By phone at 503 823 0209

The Kenton Firehouse is located at 2209 N Schofield Street near downtown Kenton.  Check our website if you need directions. 

www.northportlandtoollibrary.org.

Some subjects to consider for discussion:
-  What can NPTL do better and how?
-  What can NPTL do differently?
-  How can we make the NPTL model more sustainable?
-  How to best keep up with membership growth?  Reduce lines?  Keep costs low?  
-  Ideas about finding a new space to house the Tool Library?
-  Sources of Stable funding (membership fees?  Grant sources?  Become a part of state bureaucracy like the library system? Funding drives, fundraising event ideas? Etc.)
-  How can we better partner with other organizations in North Portland?
-  Better and more: workshops, workshop leaders, tools, space?
-  Other services you would like to see?