Community Impact
2020 Highlights and Annual Report
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Highlights:
- The Big Move! We opened our new Creative Reuse Center in the Windsor Park neighborhood of Austin in March 2020. The new space is 7 times the size of our original store and offers new ways to explore, conserve and create with ACR.
- Diverted 262k pounds of donated materials from the landfill
- 97% diversion rate
- 355 tons of materials diverted to date – that’s 13 full-sized, fully-loaded school buses
- Piloted our Closed Loop School Supply Program with two elementary schools
- Named a platinum-level Austin Green Business Leader
- Nearly 10,000 volunteer hours
2019 Highlights and Annual Report
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- We diverted over 153,000 pounds of material from the landfill
- 224 Tons of materials have been diverted by ACR to date
- The Austin Chronicle Voted Best of Austin: Best Arts and Craft Store 2018
- Over 6000 volunteer hours
2018 Highlights and Annual Report
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- We diverted over 125,000 pounds of material from the landfill
- Led professional development programs for 3 schools
- Installed reuse centers in 5 schools
- Awarded Platinum Level Membership With Austin Green Business Leaders
- We were the first organization in the history of the Austin
Green Business Leaders (AGBL) program to receive a
perfect score for Community Stewardship!
- We were the first organization in the history of the Austin
2017 Highlights and Annual Report
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- We’ve expanded open hours from just 8 hours per week to 36 hours per week.
- We diverted over 84,000 pounds of material from the landfill
- Over 6200 volunteer hours
- Offered 5 Art of Reuse workshops to the community with over 100 participants
- Participated in 70 community events
2016 Highlights and Annual Report
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- We opened Austin’s first creative reuse center!
- We diverted over 38,000 pounds of material from the landfill, more than 2.5x our previous annual record.
- 5269 volunteer hours
- 65 community events
2015 Highlights and Annual Report
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- We accomplished all our goals and in 2015 we’ll be opening our first ever permanent community and retail space!
- Over $13,000 raised during our Raise the Roof campaign
- 965 volunteer hours
- 30+ community events
2014 Highlights and Annual Report
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- We partnered with the City of Austin, Reuse Alliance Texas, and Austin Resource Recovery to make October 20th Austin Reuse Day!
- 8,200 pounds of materials diverted from the landfill
- 264% increase in funds allocated to program activities
- 1,500+ volunteer hours
- In our second Educators Material Drive, we served 4,400 Austin area students, distributed 75 pre-paced educational kits and three hands-on, TEKS aligned classroom lesson demonstrations.
2013 Highlights and Annual Report
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- 1000+ volunteer hours
- 13,950 pounds of materials diverted from the landfill
- Participated in over 25 events
- In our first ever, Educators Material Drive, we collected over 7,400lbs of materials and reached over 3,200 kids.
- Received a $1,000 booster prize in I Live Here, I Give Here’s Amplify Austin program, a community-wide challenge to raise $1 million in 24 hours. Austin Creative Reuse received over $3,800 in donations!
