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Here’s a list of potential projects for volunteers during 2010. These ideas will evolve. We’d love to see individuals or groups take ownership of these ideas and run with them, creating new excitement for Buffalo ReUse and the potential of building reuse, job training, and community development. If you’d like to DEVELOP any of the projects listed below or have ideas of your own, please contact us at volunteer@buffaloreuse.org and we can brainstorm, recruit collaborators, and plan a strategy for bringing your ideas to life.

Special Projects/Activities

  • Art installations with pieces created exclusively from reused building materials. Could be incorporated into an art walk or a similar festival.
  • Furniture design contest/furniture design exhibition. Furniture pieces would be designed from reusable building materials, with the end goal being to create a product line that we could then train youth to manufacture.
  • Architectural Design Exhibition. The end goal being to introduce reusable materials into designs that could be affordably recreated to enhance community environments…greenhouses, gazebos, park benches, bus shelters, fountains, etc.
  • Establishing an art gallery of reused material art exhibits.

Entrepreneurial, Community, and Youth Development

  • Author a youth job training curriculum manual/youth development manual that can serve as the primary resource for our future youth development initiatives.
  • Create a proposal for a small business mentoring program to strengthen community development efforts and create grassroots entrepreneurial ventures based in the communities in which we work.
  • Develop a community resource manual that can provide technical support to community groups that would like to organize and create new assets in their neighborhoods, such as community gardens, parks, etc.

Promoting Recycling Locally

  • Identify sources of grant funding, identify key collaborations, and propose the research and development of efforts to expand recycling efforts in WNY.
  • Research on-line equipment and technology to enable Buffalo ReUse to perform recycling activities on-site.
  • Research other efforts domestically and internationally to recycle construction and demolition waste.