Giving Back

Creating Community Through Sharing Boxes

As part of our commitment to the communities we serve, a portion of all sales are used for building Community Blessing Boxes and partnering with churches, non-profits and whoever wants to provide a home for them.

We have a confession, we have a motive for building these boxes. That motive is creating community. For this reason, we call the boxes we build “Community Blessing Boxes.”

What are they?

Community Blessing Boxes bring communities a tool for neighbors to help their neighbors, as well as create an opportunity for the community to express their neighborhood’s personality through artwork and symbolism on the outside of the box.

Boxes are completely white when they are given to a new host unless they request we place some type of art on the box ahead of time. The name of the box is completely up to the host location, and there is a space for you to establish your own branding for your box. Additionally, we help make cleaning the box easy by designing the shelves be removable.

How This First Got Started

There is a really neat article on our website that shares part of the story. In 2015 we put up Little Free Library in Manson, Iowa at a local Ford dealership. The sign read “Take a Book, Leave a Book.” From there we learned from Jessica McClard that we could do the same thing with food or really anything, with a sign that reads “Take what you need, Leave what you can.” On February 8th, 2017 we built our very first box. Then in March on St. Patty’s weekend we installed it next to the sidewalk outside The Rising Church in Arvada, CO.

This wasn’t the first time in my life I used a box to share things with the people I care about. When I was in fourth grade I participated in the annual “invention convention” and my father and I invented a device that sat on our kitchen countertop, we called it a “Treat Tree.”

The idea behind the Treat Tree was simple. People could take anything out or put anything in the tree, but it was mostly just for my immediate family. A Treat Tree is exactly like a Community Blessing Box, but instead of sitting on your kitchen countertop it sits in your neighborhood.