New Orleans ToolBank

The New Orleans ToolBank is a lifeline for groups working every day to strengthen our city. By maintaining a shared inventory of high‑quality tools and equipment, we ensure nonprofits, neighborhood groups, and volunteer teams can access what they need without the high cost of purchasing or maintaining it. For pennies on the dollar, partners borrow drills, saws, ladders, pressure washers, and disaster-response gear, allowing them to focus every resource on their mission, not their equipment. We can only continue to provide this critical access with your financial support, which keeps these tools in the hands of those who need them most.

Through our Tools for Change program, this equipment becomes a catalyst for transformation, rebuilding homes, restoring parks, revitalizing community spaces, and empowering organizations of every size to meet urgent needs with dignity. Every tool that leaves our warehouse strengthens resilience, promotes equity, and fuels shared progress. Your investment ensures these life‑changing projects can continue and grow across New Orleans.

The ToolBank is a promise: when people have the tools they need, they rise. To keep that promise alive, we urgently need your partnership. Please support the ToolBank today and help us continue our mission of empowering those who build a stronger, more resilient New Orleans.

Testimonials

I value the service and resources ToolBank brings to our community. HandsOn has saved both money and time. As our tools age, ToolBank's low fees allow us to have everything we need without having to make expensive replacement purchases. This is huge in the current economy. The range of tools also allows us to supplement and surge numbers when we host large teams of 75+ volunteers. Overall, ToolBank is a friendly, easy, super low-cost welcome addition to New Orleans. Their work supports the backend of nonprofits who are making amazing differences in our neighborhoods. Definitely recommend their services!"

Christopher Cameron
Executive Director, HandsOn New Orleans

"Without the New Orleans ToolBank, we wouldn't have been able to complete our neighborhood tree planting project -- plain and simple. They had tools that we wouldn't have been able to afford within the limitations of our budget and their convenient location + easy logistics made it one of the most seamless parts of an otherwise challenging project to achieve. In a city shaky on resources, the NOTB serves a truly critical function."

Ryan Harms
Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association

Co-Founder, Culture of Cleanliness

Desha Greely
New Orleans East Matters