Skill Share Registration Open! Jan 21st 6pm - 7:30pm

Next Skill Share is January 21st, 2026 6pm - 7:30pm. We’ll be hearing from DTL members Maira and Rosie about their recent bathroom renovation and Rose about fixing hinged doors. Register now for free!

Skill Shares are free community events where anyone is welcome to meet and mingle with fellow members and tool librarians and learn more about what projects they are working on. Each event features a few short presentations from community members sharing their projects, lessons learned, and inspiration, followed by time to chat and connect over N/A beverages. No tool experience required!

Register for Free

Lucky Cement Mixer Drawing! (Video)

The Share the Tools Fund Giveaway Drawing is finally here!! For everyone who donated to our December 2025 Fundraiser, they got their name thrown into our lucky cement mixer. The three winners each got a DTL Mega Pack, which includes:

Want to know if you won? Watch the video to find out!! (we’ll also be emailing you here shortly).

Thank you so much to everyone who donated!!❤️🩵💛

Now Open: Knowing Your Car Spring Registration

It’s a bit too cold and dark to teach our Knowing Your Car Automotive class w/ Care right now, so the class is still on winter break. However, we just announced new dates starting in March that are open now for registration!

How bad is that noise under my car? What does motor oil do, and can I change it myself? How can I be a part of the conversation with my mechanic? Learn the essentials of car care and maintenance, from understanding major vehicle systems and performing under-the-hood inspections to checking fluids, tires, brakes, and key safety equipment.

Learn more & sign up

We're Hiring: Welding Instructor (Part-Time)

HIRING: Welding Instructor for our Welding I: Essentials, Safety, and MIG Class

Job Title: Welding Instructor (Contractor)

Deadline to Apply: Weds, January 28th, 2026

Job Summary: We're seeking a skilled and passionate part-time welding instructor to teach our Welding I: Essentials, Safety, and MIG Class and potentially other classes / workshops down the road. This position offers good pay, flexible scheduling, and opportunities for growth. If you're enthusiastic about sharing your expertise, we'd love to hear from you! 

Learn more & Apply

Last Chance! Get 15% Off Memberships, Class Packs, Open Shop Until 2026

The Denver Tool Library is having a big 15% off end of year sale, y’all!

And this isn’t that sort of sale where we write some absurdly high price and cross it out and then give you our regular price and call it a sale (that’s called false-reference pricing, boooo).

From now until the ball drops on New Years Eve, actually and for really real get…

🛠️ 15% Off TOOL LIBRARY Memberships

Get 15% off all Gift Memberships.

If you’re a new member, get 15% off any Tool Library Membership for yourself.

Don’t forget to use code SHARETHETOOLS during checkout.

*Sale applies to new members and members with expired memberships of 30 days or more. Discount cannot be applied to active membership renewals. 15% off applies to the first year of membership and renews at full price. Sale ends Dec 31st, 2025 at midnight.

🛠️ 15% OFF CLASS PACKS

Get 15% off of DTL Class Bucks when you buy $200 or more. Create your own custom discount class packs for yourself or as a gift. Gift Bucks don’t expire, so redeem them anytime.

How do I make my own custom discount class pack?

  1. Go to our DTL Class Bucks Page and add to your cart however much you want to buy for yourself or a friend. If you want to buy a certain set of class, just total the amount the classes are worth and buy that much in DTL Class Bucks.

  2. On checkout, enter the code SHARETHETOOLS and you’ll get a 15% discount.

What kind of class packs can I make?

Here are just some ideas for class packs. As long as you buy over $200 in class gift bucks, you will get the 15% discount good toward any of our classes.

🪚 The Woodworker Pack

🪵 The Woodturner Pack

🛠️ The Woodworker Project Pack

⚡ The Welder Pack

🏠 The Contractor Pack

🌈 The Ladies & Gentlethems Pack

🎨 The Block Printer Pack

💍 The Metalsmith Pack

*Sale ends Dec 31st, 2025 at midnight.

🛠️ 15% Off Open SHOP Punch Cards

Get 15% off Open Shop Gift Cards over $100. Don’t forget to enter the code SHARETHETOOLS when checking out.

*Sale ends Dec 31st, 2025 at midnight.

Happy New Year - We Reached Our $10k Goal!!

🎉We did it!! We reached out $10k fundraising goal!!

A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped us cross the finish line of our 2025 Share the Tools Fundraiser.

Your contributions are going directly to work expanding our reach. These funds chip in to replenish the Share the Tools financial assistance program, keep community events like Repair Fairs free, allow us to hire new staff like a community outreach coordinator, and help us prepare for a future move to a larger facility. By giving, you've helped remove financial and physical barriers to access, ensuring that everyone in Denver has the resources to build and repair the life they want. So THANK YOU.

🏆THERE’S STILL TIME TO DONATE & WIN

Afraid you missed your chance to get your name thrown in the lucky cement mixer? Don’t be! You can still donate and be automatically entered into our giveaway (deets below). Every suggested $10+ donation gets you a shot at winning one of three DTL Mega Packs AND helps ensure cost isn't a barrier to building a better community.

🎇Happy New Year

Weather you were able to donate or not - thanks EVERYONE who was involved with the DTL through 2025. If you signed up for a membership, took a class, bought some shop hours, or came in to drop off a six-pack of your favorite beverage - YOU helped provide Denver with the tools they need to fix their sink, patch their clothes, and make their napkin sketches come true.

We’re stoked to show you what we have planned for 2026. Stay tuned, still donate if you can, and Happy New Year!

Donate

The Denver Tool Library is having a big giveaway y’all!

Denver Tool Library is a 501c3 non-profit. Your contributions are tax-deductible.

Donate a suggested $10 or more from now until the end of the year and you’ll automatically be entered into our Share the Tools Fund Giveaway. For every $100 you donate, you’ll get 4 entries. On January 6th, we’ll pull a random entries from our lucky cement mixer. Three winners will get a DTL Mega Pack, which includes…

  • 🛠️ One Year Of Tool Lending

  • 💡 $200 In Class Bucks

  • 🪵 A 10 Hour Open Shop Punch Card

  • 👚 DTL Shirt, Mug, and Sticker

Giveaway Fine Print: No purchase necessary. If your entry numbers are pulled multiple times, you can only win once. If you are already a tool library member with us, you can use your free annual membership toward your next renewal. Prizes you win are transferrable and you can give them away to friends and family. Giveaway prizes do not expire. To enter for free, mail a postcard with your contact info to the Denver Tool Library before 12/31.

Donate

What is the Share The Tools Fund?

People need tools to keep their homes comfortable, functional, and safe. Organizations need tools for community workdays, facility upkeep, and other mission-driven activities. Our Share the Tools Fund gets tools in the hands of the people & organizations who need them most.

How It Works

Every dollar you donate gets added into a fund. This money pays for the tools, space, and staff needed to ensure that underrepresented individuals and financially restricted organizations have access to our programs. 

Your contributions directly support:

  • Expanding our capacity to offer Financial Assistance to individuals and community partners

  • Nurturing partnerships with values-aligned organizations and ensuring diverse voices shape DTL's growth

  • Adding the most in-demand tools to our community collection to best meet member needs

  • Repairing and maintaining the 6,000+ tools that keep Denver DIY-ing

Impact

Since Share the Tools Fund’s inception in 2023, we’ve been able to give big discounts on memberships, classes, and open shop hours to hundreds of people in our community.

  • People Given 25%-50% Off our Programs: 343

  • Orgs Given 50%-100% Off our Programs: 38

  • Estimated Total Savings: $32,875

The Share the Tools Fund allows us to support dozens of organizations and community projects, helping to:

  • Build 29 school garden plots for East Middle School.

  • Repair fences at the Department of Housing Stability.

  • Build infrastructure for food delivery for Denver Food Rescue.

  • Build Safe Outdoor Spaces for people experiencing homelessness, via Radian and the Colorado Village Collaborative.

  • Build weatherproof shelters for Denver Community Fridges.

  • Provide free memberships and classes to fundraise for dozens of organizations, including DUG, DCPA, Bikes Together, DU’s CAPE program, SustainEd Farms, Denver Slow Food, Extreme Community Makeover, WeeCycle, and more.

  • Nurture partnerships and member discounts with local like-minded businesses like Perks Deconstruction, ReStore, ReCreative, Austin Hardwoods, Woodcraft, Rockler, and the Denver Public Library.

Donate

THANK YOU from the WHOLE DTL COMMUNITY!💙🛠️💛

DTL 2025 Impact Report!

Another year has passed, which means we’ve exported the .CSV files and ran the semi-questionable math so we can tell you the highlights of our Impact in 2025!

Thanks to all of you who have supported the Denver Tool Library in any way big or small. The impact we make can only happen because you’re spending some bucks, donating some tools, or just DMing us to tell us what a cool concept we are (it keeps morale high). Because of YOU we’ve managed to break our records again this year in terms of financial assistance given, classes taught by local makers/artists, and the sheer volume of tools that has gone in and out of our door.

Your Impact in 2025

Here is a look at what we accomplished together this year:

  • You Saved Over $1,032,000 this year. That is money staying in your pockets and circulating in our local economy.

  • You Reduced Waste: By sharing our inventory of 5,000+ tools, we diverted over 20.6 tons of tool waste from the landfill.

  • You Built Skills: We hosted 497 classes for 3,615 students. That represents thousands of hours of people learning to weld, woodwork, sew, and repair their homes.

  • You Shared the Tools: Thanks to our Share the Tools Fund, we provided over $25,200 in financial assistance to 203 individuals and 5 organizations. This ensures that cost is never a barrier to building a safe home or a creative life.

This year with your help we’ll break all of our records again, so be sure to pick yourself up a membership, take some classes, make a donation, or drop off a six-pack of your fav beverage during open shop hours.

Donate

What Are Your New Year’s Resolutions?

Having a hard time thinking up New Year’s Resolutions because you’re perfect? “How can I possibly get even better??” you say.

We understand the struggle, so we came up with some definitely non-bias New Year’s Resolutions from us: be more creative, save money, be more social, get the tools and education to finally do that project you’ve wanted to do forever.

Coincidentally, it just so happened that the DTL can help you achieve all of these things! Here’s our recommendations:

  1. Pick yourself up a super affordable annual Tool Library Membership starting at just $150 so you can check out practically as many tools as you want for a whole year.

  2. Sign up for a few of your favorite classes that will show you how to use those tools to do things like fine woodworking, home renovation, sewing, welding, artsy stuff, and more.

  3. Need some bigger tools for your woodworking project? Take our Shop Safety & Certification class, pick yourself an Open Workshop Punch Card, and use our Open Community Workshop Hours to build that project with assistance from our all pro shop monitors.

Happy New Year! 2026 is going to be your year! An early cheers to all, and we’ll see you next year!

Updates! Share the Tools Fundraiser Giveaway: $10,000 Goal

A huge thanks to the 50 amazing people who have supported our Share the Tools Fundraiser so far! We are officially nearing the halfway mark of our $10,000 New Year goal. Your odds of winning a DTL mega pack are still quite good, so donate today to get your name thrown in the lucky cement mixer!

Your contributions do much more than buy drills and saws - they fund equitable access for hundreds of neighbors and local orgs who rely on these resources for essential repairs and projects. By donating, you’ve helped ensure that cost is less of a barrier to building, repairing, and creating a better Denver community.

If you haven’t donated to the Share The Tools Fundraiser yet - don’t worry - we still have until the end of the year to make our $10,000 goal (we’re almost half way there!).

Donate

The Denver Tool Library is trying to raise $10,000 by the end of 2025, so we’re having a big giveaway y’all!

Denver Tool Library is a 501c3 non-profit. Your contributions are tax-deductible.

Donate a suggested $10 or more from now until the end of the year and you’ll automatically be entered into our Share the Tools Fund Giveaway. For every $100 you donate, you’ll get 4 entries. On January 6th, we’ll pull a random entries from our lucky cement mixer. Three winners will get a DTL Mega Pack, which includes…

  • 🛠️ One Year Of Tool Lending

  • 💡 $200 In Class Bucks

  • 🪵 A 10 Hour Open Shop Punch Card

  • 👚 DTL Shirt, Mug, and Sticker

For giveaway fine print, scroll to the bottom of this page.

Donate

What is the Share The Tools Fund?

People need tools to keep their homes comfortable, functional, and safe. Organizations need tools for community workdays, facility upkeep, and other mission-driven activities. Our Share the Tools Fund gets tools in the hands of the people & organizations who need them most.

How It Works

Every dollar you donate gets added into a fund. This money pays for the tools, space, and staff needed to ensure that underrepresented individuals and financially restricted organizations have access to our programs. 

Your contributions directly support:

  • Expanding our capacity to offer Financial Assistance to individuals and community partners

  • Nurturing partnerships with values-aligned organizations and ensuring diverse voices shape DTL's growth

  • Adding the most in-demand tools to our community collection to best meet member needs

  • Repairing and maintaining the 6,000+ tools that keep Denver DIY-ing

Impact

Since Share the Tools Fund’s inception in 2023, we’ve been able to give big discounts on memberships, classes, and open shop hours to hundreds of people in our community.

  • People Given 25%-50% Off our Programs: 343

  • Orgs Given 50%-100% Off our Programs: 38

  • Estimated Total Savings: $32,875

The Share the Tools Fund allows us to support dozens of organizations and community projects, helping to:

  • Build 29 school garden plots for East Middle School.

  • Repair fences at the Department of Housing Stability.

  • Build infrastructure for food delivery for Denver Food Rescue.

  • Build Safe Outdoor Spaces for people experiencing homelessness, via Radian and the Colorado Village Collaborative.

  • Build weatherproof shelters for Denver Community Fridges.

  • Provide free memberships and classes to fundraise for dozens of organizations, including DUG, DCPA, Bikes Together, DU’s CAPE program, SustainEd Farms, Denver Slow Food, Extreme Community Makeover, WeeCycle, and more.

  • Nurture partnerships and member discounts with local like-minded businesses like Perks Deconstruction, ReStore, ReCreative, Austin Hardwoods, Woodcraft, Rockler, and the Denver Public Library.

Donate

THANK YOU from the WHOLE DTL COMMUNITY!💙🛠️💛

Giveaway Fine Print: No purchase necessary. If your entry numbers are pulled multiple times, you can only win once. If you are already a tool library member with us, you can use your free annual membership toward your next renewal. Prizes you win are transferrable and you can give them away to friends and family. Giveaway prizes do not expire. To enter for free, mail a postcard with your contact info to the Denver Tool Library before 12/31.

Last Minute Gift Getters! 15% OFF

Get 15% off class packs & MEMBERSHIPS until the end of 2025

Alright, so you missed signing up for a handmade holiday class, and now you’re typing into ChatGPT “Gifts for Artistic Daughter” and you’re tempted to click that arrives in two days button on some junk you’re not even sure if she likes.

STOP! THERE’S A BETTER AND EVEN LAZIER WAY!

Be smart - make your artistic daughter do all the work and make whatever she wants.

From now until the ball drops on New Years Eve, get…

🛠️ 15% Off TOOL LIBRARY Memberships

Get 15% off all Gift Memberships.

If you’re a new member, get 15% off any Tool Library Membership for yourself.

Don’t forget to use code SHARETHETOOLS during checkout.

*Sale applies to new members and members with expired memberships of 30 days or more. Discount cannot be applied to active membership renewals. 15% off applies to the first year of membership and renews at full price. Sale ends Dec 31st, 2025 at midnight.

🛠️ 15% OFF CLASS PACKS

Get 15% off of DTL Class Bucks when you buy $200 or more. Create your own custom discount class packs for yourself or as a gift. Gift Bucks don’t expire, so redeem them anytime.

How do I make my own custom discount class pack?

  1. Go to our DTL Class Bucks Page and add to your cart however much you want to buy for yourself or a friend. If you want to buy a certain set of class, just total the amount the classes are worth and buy that much in DTL Class Bucks.

  2. On checkout, enter the code SHARETHETOOLS and you’ll get a 15% discount.

What kind of class packs can I make?

Here are just some ideas for class packs. As long as you buy over $200 in class gift bucks, you will get the 15% discount good toward any of our classes.

🪚 The Woodworker Pack

🪵 The Woodturner Pack

🛠️ The Woodworker Project Pack

⚡ The Welder Pack

🏠 The Contractor Pack

🌈 The Ladies & Gentlethems Pack

🎨 The Block Printer Pack

💍 The Metalsmith Pack

*Sale ends Dec 31st, 2025 at midnight.

🛠️ 15% Off Open SHOP Punch Cards

Get 15% off any Open Workshop Hour Punch Cards and . Code must be applied in-shop only. Just tell your shop monitor SHARETHETOOLS next time you’re in!

*Code must be applied in-shop only. Sale ends Dec 20th, 2025 at 3pm.

Get 15% off Open Shop Gift Cards over $100. Don’t forget to enter the code SHARETHETOOLS when checking out.

*Sale ends Dec 31st, 2025 at midnight.