Maintain Echo Park Trash Club's Truck & Create Hygiene Kits

Goal: Raise $6,500

→ $1,500 for hygiene kit supplies; $5,000 for ongoing Echo Park Trash Club truck needs

It’s that time of year again! Help Echo Park Trash Club (EPTC) raise funds to continue providing compassionate trash clean up services and other resources to our community.

Hygiene Kits

This fall, we’ll start distributing hygiene kits during our clean ups. This will allow us to be more responsive to neighbors who may ask for assistance!

Your donation will help us purchase supplies for our Hygiene Kit Making Party at Groundfloor on Sunday, November 10, 2024 from 10 am to noon. We have a goal to build 200 kits. We’ll keep a portion to distribute during our events, and we’ll donate the rest to another community organization in need of hygiene kits. If you can/can't contribute, please join us!

Here are the supplies you’ll be helping us purchase!

Shampoo, conditioner, & combs

Body soap & lotion

Tissues & toilet paper

Deodorant & wipes

Toothbrushes & toothpaste

Feminine hygiene products

Major thank you to Groundfloor for partnering with us to host this amazing event!

Ongoing Truck Maintenance

Thanks to our amazing supporters, we’ve been able to responsibly use community sourced funds to continuously maintain our beloved EPTC supply truck! You’ve helped pay for insurance, gas, repairs, registration, smog checks, clean up supplies, safety gear, and more.

These needs are evergreen, so we’re replenishing our truck maintenance fund once again! Any amount makes a huge difference, and we appreciate your support no matter what <3

How else can I help?

Come to a clean-up event! Spread the word, donate whatever you can, and SHARE this campaign!

We announce upcoming clean up events (Sundays, 10am-noon) on Instagram and in our Newsletter. Please note we do not have a regular clean up schedule.

We want to thank and acknowledge our community partner, Thunderbolt Echo Park , for their continued partnership since 2020. $2 from the sale of every Echo Park Trash Can beverage is generously donated to Echo Park Trash Club . Cheers!

We also want to thank Council District 13 , LA City Sanitation , Maury’s Bagels , California Donuts , Woodcat , and MASA of Echo Park .

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CLUB FOUNDATION

The Echo Park Trash Club was founded in 2020 by local musician Erin Fein as a grassroots organization of volunteers hailing from Echo Park, CA and beyond. We gather several Sundays a month to collect the mounting trash in our downtown Los Angeles neighborhood bordered by Silver Lake and Chinatown. The Club has inspired volunteer trash clubs in different communities to form, making us proud!

ABOUT THE CLUB

Echo Park Trash Club is a group of community volunteers whose mission is to help keep our neighborhood clean. Due to the sensitive and complicated issue of houselessness in Los Angeles, there is a large degree of trash buildup around encampments in our city.

There is also a significant degree of neighborhood debris separate from encampments.

Our mission is to step in where the city of Los Angeles currently is not and to clean our neighborhood while treating the unhoused folks living here with the respect they deserve.

Echo Park Trash Club was founded in July 2020 by Erin Fein. Today, it is a thriving group of civic-minded individuals who love the neighborhood, and it belongs to everyone who volunteers and the Echo Park community at large.

FROM OUR FIRST GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN

Los Angeles, CA -- Echo Park local musician Erin Fein got tired of passing garbage in the streets and decided to do something about it. With the help of volunteers she enlisted on social media and more than 40+ clean-up events, ECHO PARK TRASH CLUB (EPTC) was born. The streets of LA are cleaner due to Erin's ongoing efforts! Let's help her win the fight again trash and raise much-needed funds to buy a truck (plus cover: insurance, registration, maintenance/gas) to transport clean-up materials (trash bags, shovels, trash pickers, wheelbarrows that she's been paying for out of pocket?!!) to future clean up sites. These neighborhood events happen three times per month in a predetermined area of Los Angeles. Her vehicle is getting TRASHED in her effort to aid this altruistic community beautification project.