tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90928621275021234962024-03-20T12:31:09.554-07:00Creative Reuse WorkshopThis blog is an introduction into what it takes to start a creative reuse center in your region. Stay tuned for our book, an expanded version of this blog, in October 2012.Creative Reuse Workshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142733663070682965noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092862127502123496.post-63370007365691235732012-10-31T10:37:00.000-07:002012-10-31T10:42:42.270-07:00The book is out and selling like hotcakes!<div>
Our book has been out for almost a full month!</div>
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We were able to print a short run just in time for the <a href="http://www.reuseconex.org/">ReuseConex 2012</a>, here in Portland, OR. And we sold out on the second day!</div>
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We are so excited that the book has been so well received and appreciated.</div>
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Thank you everyone for your support! Our hope is that we will start to see more creative reuse centers popping up in every city around the world.</div>
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And as always, please comment here or email us creativereuseworkshop (at) gmail.com if you have any questions, suggestions, feedback, or comments. We'd love to hear from you!</div>
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Creative Reuse Workshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142733663070682965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092862127502123496.post-28702301064192295242012-09-04T12:31:00.000-07:002012-09-04T12:31:00.347-07:00Recommended Resources - Your Suggestions.Do you have any recommendations that we may add to our Recommended Resources page? Please comment to suggest<u> related </u>blogs, sites, or organizations to check out.<br />
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Many thanks!Creative Reuse Workshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142733663070682965noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092862127502123496.post-72426494681615060162012-09-03T16:00:00.000-07:002012-10-31T10:43:14.152-07:00Setting Up the Retail Environment<br />
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In an earlier chapter, <i>The Crazy Reality of a Creative Reuse Center</i>, we touched on the unconventional nature of the retail environment in a creative reuse center. While not nearly as easy to organize as a grocery store, or even a big box craft store, you’ll want your store to be shoppable and navigable as possible. Adding some structure and policies to the following categories can certainly help:</div>
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Creative Reuse Workshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142733663070682965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092862127502123496.post-24508958155819065612012-09-03T10:33:00.000-07:002012-10-31T10:43:33.884-07:00Getting Started - Your Infrastructure<br />
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The opposite of infrastructure is chaos. Setting up a creative reuse center is unpredictable enough by virtue of dealing with donated materials. Having systems in place will save your hide when you’re up to your ears in fabric, bottle tops, paper, and crayons.</div>
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While there are many elements to building capacity in your creative reuse center, we’ll stick to the basics:</div>
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Creative Reuse Workshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142733663070682965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092862127502123496.post-27125259900243605172012-07-30T13:07:00.000-07:002012-10-31T10:43:58.708-07:00Solid Gold - Your Volunteer Team<br />
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That’s what volunteers are to an organization – solid gold. Volunteers can play a variety of roles at your creative reuse center. Depending upon your needs and the volunteers’ skill sets and interests, you can have many of your essential functions covered. Volunteers make it possible to accomplish your mission with little or no initial funding. And, when you’re ready to hire – you’ll have a pool of super stars to choose from that already know the organization, are committed to the mission, and are known to you.</div>
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Creative Reuse Workshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142733663070682965noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092862127502123496.post-29866665892193311592012-07-29T12:42:00.000-07:002012-10-31T10:44:12.888-07:00Risky Business<br />
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Belinda (<i>not her real name</i>) was a super star volunteer. She showed up regularly for her shifts and worked diligently stocking and organizing store sections. During a typical shift, she was cleaning up the wood section which was badly in need of organization. As she was moving varying sizes of wood to make them more salable, a piece with a sharp point fell, penetrated her shoe, and went right through her big toe. Apparently this piece of wood was balanced precariously between two other larger pieces. As they were moved, the sharp piece dropped to the ground. Belinda was new to town, worked as a nanny part time, and did not have medical insurance.</div>
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This unfortunate incident was indeed a wake-up call for us that mitigating risk doesn’t just mean having contracts, liability insurance, and criminal background checks in place. It also means physical safety and well-being for staff and volunteers.<br />
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If you decide to become a for-profit venture, you can look at bank loans, investor capital, Kick Starter, or other ways of getting the money together. Here, the opposite is true; you can’t promise a tax deduction, but you can offer a return on investment or other stake in your company.</div>
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center. They read about it in the local paper. A friend posted on
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Creative Reuse Workshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142733663070682965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092862127502123496.post-20497110641819723872012-05-22T17:07:00.000-07:002012-10-31T10:45:30.507-07:00Stakeholders - It takes a village to support a community-based organizationYour creative reuse center exists within a community. Having strong relationships with your community members is invaluable. The staff, volunteers, neighbors, sister reuse organizations, funders, participants in your programs, users of your services, retail shoppers, early adopters, environmental fans, arts fans, educators, and government officials all make up your village. They are otherwise known as <b>stakeholders</b>. They all have a stake in what you do: They help facilitate your development, are affected by your activities, and/or share the mission.<br />
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So, who specifically are your stakeholders? What are their needs and expectations? One of the first activities you and your advisory board will do is brainstorm an inventory of your stakeholders. You'll make a list of all the people who are invested in the success of your venture. Next, you'll prioritize your stakeholders. Who on the list has the biggest stake in the development of your creative reuse center? Who has influence over its success? Staff, board, and volunteers are likely to be at the top of your priority list. So are funders and investors. <br />
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We’re often asked if a business plan is absolutely necessary to get a new creative reuse center off the ground. The unfortunate answer is absolutely yes. It’s unfortunate because if your passion is to start a creative reuse center, you're likely to be more tapped into your right brain and taking on a structured business plan may not be your cup of tea. You may feel more comfortable with creative, free-form, intuitive, non-linear thinking. A business plan is about as left brained as a process gets. Think of it as your road map to success. For now, you’ll need to put on your analytical, fact-based, sequential hat. -- at least for much of the work </div>
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Now that you’ve created your Mission Statement, what type of
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There are 3 main venue types we typically see in the world of creative
reuse: Mobile units, brick-and-mortar locations, and online material
exchanges. Most creative reuse
organizations typically utilize some combination of the three. Choosing the right type of venue will help
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The all important mission statement is the most foundational business planning
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your purpose and identity. It will justify your raison d'etre. It
will inform all of your activities and programming. Having a carefully
crafted mission statement will have a significant pay-off for the life of your
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What would be more mortifying than throwing a party and no one came? All the excellent planning and preparation falls flat if no one is interested in showing up. Generally we have good instincts and imagine that if we find something exciting and compelling, others do too. The problem with that logic is what psychologists call “confirmation bias”. People tend to hear or interpret information that supports their own beliefs. If I believe that creative reuse is the greatest thing ever, I may tend toward interpreting ambivalence as a positive response and even subconsciously screen out conflicting information. While creative reuse <i>is </i>the best thing ever, you need to find out if other people in your community agree.</span></div>
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If you are following along at home and read last week's post, you’ve thought about your business structure. If you’re leaning toward organizing as a nonprofit entity, there’s an option you’ll want to consider -- fiscal sponsorship. </div>
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According to the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors, “fiscal sponsorship means a nonprofit organization (the fiscal sponsor) agrees to provide administrative services and oversight to, and assume legal and financial responsibility for, the activities of groups or individuals engaged in work that furthers the fiscal sponsor’s mission.” In other words, you can leave the humdrum administrative and legal tasks up to the sponsor and get right to focusing on establishing your creative reuse center. And raising money. As the sponsor’s project, you will have the benefit of their tax exempt status. This means, right off the bat, you can offer tax exempt receipts for donations you receive from fans, friends, family, foundations and other folks. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here’s where we get all businessy and start talking about establishing yourself as a business. After all, a creative reuse center is a legal entity that must be registered with the government and Internal Revenue Service. Since you’ve had an opportunity to identify your passion to start a creative reuse center, the time to tap into it is when things get a little dry and left-brained. </span></div>
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Creative Reuse Workshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07142733663070682965noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9092862127502123496.post-34773749401970499662012-03-17T20:24:00.001-07:002012-03-23T15:25:18.712-07:00Extra! Extra! Etsy's Recycler's GuildHere's an extra little tidbit I found. (<i>Please note, this will not be included in the book. It's intended to further enhance your creative reuse imagination.)</i><br />
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</tbody></table>I just stumbled upon the Recycler's Guild of Etsy this evening. All of the products and projects they feature on the site are worthy of checking out, but I was especially excited to see that they have a tab dedicated to creative reuse. Follow this link for more...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A creative reuse center (CRC) can be a magical, creative haven--a place where one can wander, dig, and see what their mind imagines. It can also be a place of chaos and unpredictability. Part of the <i>je ne sais quoi</i> of reuse is that it’s hard to imagine the types of materials (and types of people, for that matter!) that will come your way.</span></div>
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At SCRAP in Portland, Oregon (where we both so luckily work!), we receive dozens of emails, phone calls and visits from enthusiastic, spirited individuals who all want to know the same thing; "How do I start a Creative Reuse Center in my town?" They've discovered a website or seen an article about creative reuse. They get the marriage of art/craft and environmental change.</div>
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We soon realized that if we were to coach each passionate and motivated caller to create a start-up Creative Reuse Center, we'd have little time to take care of other business. That's when SCRAP began the SCRAP USA project (see chapter about Fiscal Sponsorships). And, that's when we realized we needed a how-to for establishing a Creative Reuse Center in other communities.</div>
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Like anything, it's easier said than done. There's no satisfactory answer in a brief meeting or phone call. There's no simple 8-step formula. Starting a Creative Reuse Center takes a full-on commitment, hard work, good community relations, resilience and a willingness to explain your mission over and over and over to potential stakeholders. It requires a keen eye for cast-off goodies and doo-dads that manufacturers dump in the landfill. And it means writing grants, holding fundraisers and persuading every friend, every friend's friend and every friend's friend's friend to volunteer, give money or donate materials to the cause.</div>
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There are numerous delights along the way in creating a Creative Reuse Center. It is rewarding and often incredibly fun work. Creative Reuse Centers attract the most interesting creative and resourceful people and businesses in the community. You will discover new partner organizations and civic champions. You'll hear a new customer exclaim, "I love this place!" or a child will squeal with excitement at finding just the right-sized colorful plastic bottle tops for a robot's eyes. Each day will be full of surprises - you never know what donations will come through the door. A jar of vintage buttons in the bottom of a box of random art supplies or a piece of Chinese silk brocade or a set of black and white photographs of a family's 1954 snowy vacation at Mt. Bachelor.</div>
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