TPT MN Re-airs Car Donation Documentary “Restoring Hope One Car at a Time”, a documentary produced in 2009 collaboratively by Twin Cities Public Television and Free to Be, Inc with funding from the McKnight Foundation and the following sponsors: Gold Sponsor, John’s Auto Parts; Silver Sponsors, Building Sites Inc, Cotten’s Napa, and Sannerud, Savarese & [...]

Free To Be, Inc. was honored to receive a $5,000 check from Sam’s Club on November 30 through the Walmart Foundation Event Volunteerism Always Pays (Event VAP). The Event VAP program awards grants when a group of at least five associates volunteers 25 hours collectively with an eligible organization. Team leader Benjamin Wolff’s team, consisting [...]

Twin Cities North Chamber of Commerce held their 2012 Roaring 20s Annual Gala on Friday, March 2, at Vadnais Heights Commons. In the running were five nonprofits from Minnesota who were judged by various chamber executives across the country. Each nominee was ranked one through five, and Free To Be, Inc. received the highest ranking [...]

Free2B! recipient of Eleven Who Care Donation – Jeff Matt owner Victory Auto Service & Glass - Eleven Who Care Winner Jeff Matt, owner of Victory Auto Service & Glass and Free2B! Board member received the 2011 Eleven Who Care Award. Jeff named Free2B! to be the recipient of the donation.  To see the story on [...]

Thanks to Free2B! and the volunteer labor by Ultra Tech of Coon Rapids and Hooze 4X4 in Ham Lake, two single fathers from Anoka are able to care for their children and get to work.  They both received a donated car at the Car Care Saturday held at Victory Auto Service and Glass in Ham [...]

Mary T. recently donated a handicapped access van to Free2B!  This van, a 1994 Chevrolet G-20 van was equipped with a wheel chair ramp making it possible for people with limited mobility to again be mobile.  Ron Nordin, Property Manager and Community Developer for Mary T. made the arrangements for the vehicle transfer to Free2B! [...]

St. Paul’s Catholic Church of Ham Lake frees nine families from transportation barriers by sponsoring a Free2B! Car Care Saturday at Victory Auto Service and Glass in Fridley.  Five families received donated cars and four families had their cars repaired by the Free2B! volunteers.  A 1996 Chevrolet Lumina had some body damage that was repaired [...]

Five lucky ladies received cars from Free2B! at the Car Care Saturday in Ham Lake.

Northmetro TV produces a news segment on Free2B!  To see the story please vistit the following link: http://northmetrotv.com/news/newsitem.aspx?newsid=748&newsitemid=5020

Hooze 4 X 4 repaired the 1997 Saturn SL1 for Free2B! which was then donated to Tiffany Vititoe of Anoka. As a One-a-Month provider for Free2B!, Hooze repairs up to one vehicle a month without charging for labor for their services. Hooze did an oil change, replaced an O2 sensor, a cam shaft sensor, did [...]

Mary T. Inc. expanded their support to the Community by donating one of their maintenance vehicles, a 1997 Ford heavy duty truck, to Free2B! Family owned and founded on a history of care inspired by grandmother Rosa Camille, Mary T. Inc. provides enhanced lifestyles for people through affordable rental housing, apartments for seniors, residential living, [...]

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When David Dutcher of Blaine brought his car in to Victory Auto Services and Glass in Fridley to be evaluated for repairs by Free2B! volunteers, he did not feel too lucky. When Victory Auto evaluated his car, they decided that it was not worth repairing, and that it was an unsafe vehicle to be on [...]