Eleven Arizona FastFrame Franchises Team Up to Build a Picture-Perfect Home
The Valley’s Leader in Custom Framing Use Their Handicraft Skills for a Good Cause
Phoenix, AZ, June 01, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Eleven stores in the Arizona Market Area of FastFrame, a national franchise of high-quality, custom framing done in 24 hours or less, is teaming up to help Habitat for Humanity. On June 9, 2007, beginning at 6:30 a.m. FastFrame will lead a build day for the selected family, primarily focusing on landscaping and the finishing touches to the home.
In addition to the build day, each Valley FastFrame store will host a ‘Home Goods Drive’ from May 24-June 9. The stores will each involve surrounding community members, customers, other business owners or family and friends to bring in used or new home goods. They will be accepting items ranging from furniture to large appliances to home repair tools.
“We all have those things in storage or the back of the closet that we know we are never going to use again, yet are still hanging onto them,” said Kate Matsler, owner of Store # 310 on Camelback Rd. and 32nd Street in Phoenix. “The ‘Home Goods Drive’ is going to a great way to organize for summer while helping out a worthy cause.”
Those who donate items to the FastFrame Home Goods Drive will also receive special discounts and/or gift certificates as a thank you for their contribution.
To help welcome the homeowners into their new house, FastFrame has hired a professional photographer to take family portraits the week following the build. During the ‘Dedication Ceremony’ of the house, the family will be presented with their photographs—which will all be custom framed by the FastFrame experts.
The collaboration of all eleven Valley stores for an event is the first of its kind for the franchise owners.
“Even though we separately own each store, we are still all part of the FastFrame family,” explained Greg Stewart, owner of store #2109 on Chandler Blvd. and 48th Street in Phoenix and #3109 on Val Vista and Baseline in Mesa. “We really wanted to extend our abilities and service to the community and invite this family into ours.”
For more information on the Home Goods Drive or about the Habitat for Humanity service event, contact mollie@onyxpr.com or log on to www.fastframe.com for each store location. FastFrame store owners are available for interviews.
About FastFrame:
FastFrame was founded in 1986 in Thousand Oaks, California. The Company has grown to over 300 locations throughout the United States and internationally FastFrame is located in the UK, Japan, Australia and Brazil. FastFrame stores offer quality picture framing craftsmanship to consumers, art collectors, interior designers and commercial clients around the globe. They carry a wide variety of custom framing materials and mouldings. Each store also carries an assortment of prints and fine art in easy to view catalogs, and on the newly released website fastframeprints.com. FastFrame stores are owner operated, providing personal design and quality picture framing services for the home or office. Their stores offer immediate turnaround using state of the art, on-site custom framing capabilities. FastFrame stores offer a 30-day Design Guarantee and a Lifetime Guarantee on the Craftsmanship of the product.
About Habitat for Humanity:
Serving metropolitan Phoenix since 1987, Habitat for Humanity Valley of the Sun is a grassroots ecumenical housing organization whose mission is to eliminate substandard housing. The mission is to build affordable housing and community partnerships that promote spiritual values and individual responsibility. The Valley of the Sun affiliate is one of the most active of the Habitat affiliates and is responsible for the building of more than 400 new homes. Currently the affiliate is active in South Phoenix, as well as Chandler, Glendale, Guadalupe and Apache Junction.
Habitat for Humanity International, based in Americus, Georgia, is an ecumenical Christian ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing. Habitat dedicated its 200,000th house last summer and has more than one million people living in Habitat homes they helped build and are buying through no-profit, zero-interest mortgages. Visit their website, http://www.habitataz.org.
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In addition to the build day, each Valley FastFrame store will host a ‘Home Goods Drive’ from May 24-June 9. The stores will each involve surrounding community members, customers, other business owners or family and friends to bring in used or new home goods. They will be accepting items ranging from furniture to large appliances to home repair tools.
“We all have those things in storage or the back of the closet that we know we are never going to use again, yet are still hanging onto them,” said Kate Matsler, owner of Store # 310 on Camelback Rd. and 32nd Street in Phoenix. “The ‘Home Goods Drive’ is going to a great way to organize for summer while helping out a worthy cause.”
Those who donate items to the FastFrame Home Goods Drive will also receive special discounts and/or gift certificates as a thank you for their contribution.
To help welcome the homeowners into their new house, FastFrame has hired a professional photographer to take family portraits the week following the build. During the ‘Dedication Ceremony’ of the house, the family will be presented with their photographs—which will all be custom framed by the FastFrame experts.
The collaboration of all eleven Valley stores for an event is the first of its kind for the franchise owners.
“Even though we separately own each store, we are still all part of the FastFrame family,” explained Greg Stewart, owner of store #2109 on Chandler Blvd. and 48th Street in Phoenix and #3109 on Val Vista and Baseline in Mesa. “We really wanted to extend our abilities and service to the community and invite this family into ours.”
For more information on the Home Goods Drive or about the Habitat for Humanity service event, contact mollie@onyxpr.com or log on to www.fastframe.com for each store location. FastFrame store owners are available for interviews.
About FastFrame:
FastFrame was founded in 1986 in Thousand Oaks, California. The Company has grown to over 300 locations throughout the United States and internationally FastFrame is located in the UK, Japan, Australia and Brazil. FastFrame stores offer quality picture framing craftsmanship to consumers, art collectors, interior designers and commercial clients around the globe. They carry a wide variety of custom framing materials and mouldings. Each store also carries an assortment of prints and fine art in easy to view catalogs, and on the newly released website fastframeprints.com. FastFrame stores are owner operated, providing personal design and quality picture framing services for the home or office. Their stores offer immediate turnaround using state of the art, on-site custom framing capabilities. FastFrame stores offer a 30-day Design Guarantee and a Lifetime Guarantee on the Craftsmanship of the product.
About Habitat for Humanity:
Serving metropolitan Phoenix since 1987, Habitat for Humanity Valley of the Sun is a grassroots ecumenical housing organization whose mission is to eliminate substandard housing. The mission is to build affordable housing and community partnerships that promote spiritual values and individual responsibility. The Valley of the Sun affiliate is one of the most active of the Habitat affiliates and is responsible for the building of more than 400 new homes. Currently the affiliate is active in South Phoenix, as well as Chandler, Glendale, Guadalupe and Apache Junction.
Habitat for Humanity International, based in Americus, Georgia, is an ecumenical Christian ministry dedicated to eliminating poverty housing. Habitat dedicated its 200,000th house last summer and has more than one million people living in Habitat homes they helped build and are buying through no-profit, zero-interest mortgages. Visit their website, http://www.habitataz.org.
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