Birdhouses Wanted for Auction Fundraiser to Benefit Nonprofits

Photo Caption: Buy a pre-made birdhouse at a craft store to decorate and embellish, build your own, or buy one already assembled and detailed, to donate to our auction.

(West Hartford, CT) — Real Estate Agents Recycle (REAcycle) is looking for individuals and groups to flex their creativity and imagination with birdhouse creations for our feathered friends to enjoy outside or humans to admire inside.

For its first annual fundraiser, REAcycle is calling out to the community to donate birdhouses to be auctioned off on Tuesday, April 24 in our Birdhouse Auction, sponsored by United Bank. The auction event will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Pond House in West Hartford. A live band will perform during the event.

Individuals, including artists, town officials, teachers and students of all ages, and groups, including schools, clubs, or businesses, can donate birdhouses, which will be auctioned off in three categories: teacup auction, silent auction and live auction. Several weeks before the auction, birdhouses will be featured at local businesses in West Hartford and in The Pond House gardens.

How To Participate in Birdhouse Donation

• Birdhouses can be any size, shape or dimension
• Wooden birdhouses can be purchased at craft stores to be decorated or embellished
• Birdhouses can be built from scratch by a skilled tradesperson
• Birdhouses can be small enough to fit on a table top or big enough for families of our feathered friends
• Birdhouses will be categorized by REAcycle for the teacup auction, silent auction or live auction
• Please send an email to info@reacycle with your contact information (name, phone and organization if applicable) if you plan to participate
• If your business creates a birdhouse, you can include business card to be displayed with your birdhouse.
• Birdhouses should be dropped off or shipped between March 20 and April 10 to: 6 Briarwood Road, West Hartford, CT 06107. Pickup can be arranged in special circumstances. Please email or call REAcycle.

Event proceeds will benefit two programs, Community Partners in Action Culinary Program and Real Estate Agents Recycle, a philanthropic group of real estate agents creating jobs for the underemployed, keeping gently used and recyclable items out of landfills, and helping to end homelessness. For more information, call REAcycle at 860.785.3461.
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Based in West Hartford, REAcycle is a philanthropic group of real estate agents creating jobs for the underemployed, keeping gently used and recyclable items out of landfills, and supporting local efforts to end homelessness. Home sellers participating in the program with their realtors have the option to donate and recycle their items through REAcycle. Coordinators organize the items into three categories (reuse, recycle, dispose) and trained laborers handle the logical coordination and delivery to local non-profits who accept donated household items.