Mission: 
To empower educators, children, and the community to connect, inspire and create visions and knowledge, through the creative reuse of open-ended materials while simultaneously promoting environmental responsibilities.


Vision:
To collaborate with businesses, educators, children, families and the greater community to instill a culture of environmental responsibility and playful learning through using our collective resources in creative ways. 

Who Benefits from Tinkering and Reusing Varied Materials?

WHO BENEFITS? (Reusable Resource Center)


What's in it for the children? 
Research and common sense says children learn best through self active "hands-on" experiences.  Self esteem and social competence are advanced through concrete cooperative learning.  Children are out most valuable resource and will be the creative problem solvers of tomorrow.  They can create something no one's ever seen before! Reusing clean donated materials gives children an opportunity they might not otherwise have.  It also teaches a respect for the environment


What's in it for schools?
A consistent, urgent call from teachers nationally is for an on-going supply of creative hands-on materials to implement the new educational standards and curriculum frameworks! Teachers need material resources to implement change! Due to low budgets they often cannot provide the needed resources unless they are donated.


What's in it for businesses?
Businesses everywhere generate an abundance of unwanted solid waste products, overruns, rejects, obsolete parts, and discontinued items; and it cost businesses a lot of money to dispose of their discards.  By donating materials, not only do they help their bottom line, but they also help their own community.


What's in it for the environment?
Less materials will be headed for the landfills without being reused first.
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