SCRAP Creative Reuse was founded in Portland OR in 1998 by a group of teachers who wanted to find a home for their leftover classroom materials. They brought these materials to A Teacher’s Space, a resource center for Portland Public School teachers, and left them on a table for others to use. In 1999, an innovative teacher named Joan Grimm got together with a handful of her peers and received a grant from the Department of Environmental Quality to open a small creative reuse center for the community.
SCRAP became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1999. SCRAP Creative Reuse is a network of grassroots creative reuse centers around the country. From that first creative reuse center in Portland, we developed a model that could be shared in other communities in other places.
SCRAP Creative Reuse is a national network of creative reuse centers. We are a shared-services network where each SCRAP site is fully supported with administrative, financial, human resource and legal services. New creative reuse centers, start-ups, educators, and community groups also join us on our creative reuse journey by connecting with us for technical services, assistance, and consulting. Our vision is that there would be a creative reuse center in every city, town, business, school and home. We believe that by providing an administrative hub, SCRAP site staff can focus on the business of the creative reuse mission and we get ever closer to our vision.
It’s tough to contain a great idea. Communities all over the U.S. are recognizing the value of having access to an organized creative reuse center. SCRAP Creative Reuse Network has a sustainable business model of creative reuse service delivery that lends itself to replication by all communities. Dedicated and passionate creative reusers in other parts of the country have taken up the mantle and are establishing SCRAPs in their communities. Pay attention to the creative reuse love coming out of Portland OR, Baltimore MD, Richmond VA, and Ann Arbor, MI.
If you are interested in learning how to start a creative reuse center of your own, please check out the Getting Started page on our SCRAP Creative Reuse Network website.
Inspire creative reuse and environmentally sustainable behavior by providing educational programs and affordable materials to the community.
We count on your generosity as an individual, foundation, corporate sponsor, or partner.
How it works: You feel the creative, environmental, and educational love from SCRAP. You return the love by adding to our resources so we can share with others. It becomes a circle of love
that keeps giving – to you, to us, and to the entire community.
SCRAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Federal Tax ID 93-1270807.
Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.
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SCRAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Federal Tax ID 93-1270807.
Donations are tax deductible as allowed by law.
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