WAYS TO DONATE

Why donate to The RE Store?
Donate materials
Donate funds or become a business sponsor
Contribute your time: volunteers, interns, community service hours
Give items we need

Donate to our 2012 Truck Fund Here

Why donate to The RE Store?

The RE Store has two environmentally-responsible retail stores that sell affordable building materials

• Offering quality alternatives to new products
• Stocking inexpensive, unique items
  Examples include cabinets, doors, windows, light fixtures, tubs, sinks, flooring, moulding, hardware, etc...

Our salvage services recover wasted materials for reuse and recycling from Washington State and beyond

• Diverting over 4 million pounds of construction & demolition waste
• Providing quality services and savings builders, home owners and businesses

We promote a green, sustainable culture

• Encouraging value to be created from waste
• Exposing a wide variety of people to sustainable lifestyle options

Customers save over $1.6 million annually through RE Store purchases

• Our sales totaling over 1.6 million dollars each year are based on items priced at 50% or much less than the price of similar new items
• Saving money for our donors on their disposal fees while contributors receive a tax-deductible receipt or a in-store trade credit

Building community by building skills

• Developing individual skills for our 25+ staff on an ongoing basis
• Training people to enter the work force in new ways with our green jobs training program

Connecting with our communities through workshops, events and our Recycled Art Program.

Get the full story on all of our do it yourself resources to help you reuse, save money and be creative.

Find out other ways to get involved with The RE Store.

Donate materials

Save money on disposal, reduce waste and contribute to our community-based non-profit organization. If you are finishing a new construction project, remodel or just cleaning out the garage, let us help! Don't pay money to dump useable building materials or let them rot in the backyard! We accept a wide variety of building supplies, furniture for businesses and homes, and decorative items.

We welcome your building supplies that are in good reusable condition up until 1 HOUR BEFORE CLOSING at both of our stores. We also pick up items, strip out salvageable items, and demolish buildings to recover materials for reuse.

Visit our Donate Materials page to get the details and to see what you get in return.

Donate funds or become a business sponsor

Over 300 people walk through our stores each day, creating opportunities to share information about our partners and sponsors with them. In addition to our stores, our constellation of web-based sites and social media see multiple thousands of visitors each week. Our email newsletter is broadcast to almost 5000 receptive readers as well and that number grows each month.
Visit our Business Sponsor page for more information.

Support our "Keep The RE Store Rolling" campaign to raise 25,000 by December 31, 2012 to buy a truck to replace our dying truck.

Contribute your time and energy

Volunteer to help on projects in the stores, with events, on salvage jobs, organizing and merchandising - what do you love to do?

Become an intern - we have many potential positions and projects available to meet your interests, studies, or career goals.

Fulfill community service hours for infractions against the law.

Discover our current volunteer and intern opportunities.

Give items we need

Consider donating your office equipment, tools, supplies, vehicles or your first born.
The RE Store is in need of equipment that includes:

• Office supplies
• Current computers (most of ours are 5-8 years old)
• Copy machine
• Color printer
• Appropriate printer cartridges
• Printing supplies (recycled paper, envelopes, etc.)
• Newer shop tools (table saw, joiner, planer, etc.)
• Digital cameras (older ones are fine - at least 5 megapixels please!) 

Our Seattle Field Crew could really use the following:

• 15 amp Sawzall(s)
• Still Saw or Sawzall blades
• Multi-tool or Fine Multi-tool
• Burke 'demo' bars
• Generator(s)
• Compressor(s)
• hand truck(s)
• safety gear (glasses, gloves, etc.)

And while we are really dreaming:

• a small, late model pick-up truck
• a 16' box van

Contact the Seattle Store or Bellingham Store to contribute materials for our use. Please specify that they are usable and not for us to sell when you bring them by!

Support our parent organization, RE Sources with in-kind donations as well: 

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Find out other ways to get involved with The RE Store.

Get the full story on all of our do it yourself resources to help you reuse, save money and be creative.