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Resource Depot 3680 Investment Lane Riviera Beach, FL 33404 (561) 882-0090 resourcedepot

Our mission is to collect and distribute safe, reusable materials to community partners for creative learning experiences while preserving the environment.

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Resource Depot 3680 Investment Lane Riviera Beach, FL 33404 (561) 882-0090 resourcedepot

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  1. Our mission is to collect and distribute safe, reusable materials to community partners for creative learning experiences while preserving the environment. The Resource Depot is a not-for-profit 501c3 organization and all contributions are tax deductible to the extent provided byfederal and state law. Resource Depot is funded by grants from Resource Depot 3680 Investment Lane Riviera Beach, FL 33404 (561) 882-0090 www.resourcedepot.net “Like” us on Facebook... www.facebook.com/TheResourceDepot 2 2 Choose Reuse Create Educate *

  2. 2011 Learn Green Conference Resource Depot • Who we are… • Resource Depot is a non-profit agency that distributes safe and reusable materials to community partners for creative learning experiences. • We actively promote our mission by offering and attending: • Student and teacher workshops / field trips • Special events throughout the community • “Shopping” of donated materials for teachers and non-profit organizations • Parties and group events Presenters Carolyn Vickey, Executive Director Introduction & Operations Walter Drew, Ph.D The Concept for Resource Centers Connie Christman, Education & Event Coordinator Partnerships & Program Integration 2 2 Choose Reuse Create Educate *

  3. At Resource Depot… • Shopping • FREE materials for teachers, non-profits and community • organizations, child care centers • Become a Super Green Member • Donations • Clean, safe & reusable materials from businesses, offices • and individuals Celebrating 13 years of serving Palm Beach County! Take the R3 Pledge • Partnerships • Palm Beach County Cultural Council, • Sunfest, Palm Beach County School • District, teaching artists • Grantors • Solid Waste Authority , Childrens Services • Council • Website • Go to www.resourcedepot.net for • contact info, directions, news, special • events and to take the R3 Pledge • Facebook • Timely news, project and • item photo galleries

  4. Dr. Walter Drew "When I play my mind opens up to new possibilities, I see things differently, rendering moments of reverie and intense art-making that send my spirit soaring. So it is with children, refreshing their spirit, allowing them to feel the flow of inner power, the capacity to create harmony and order…amazing as it seems, simply fiddling with objects focuses the mind and leads to self-discovery!"     Dr. Drew teaches how self active play with open-ended materials inspires creative contemplation, naturally engaging our Hands, Hearts and Minds through invention and Self discovery. In this way, we awaken our creative potential, which is the mission of theInstitute for Self Active Education (ISAE). Founded in Boston in 1980 by Walter F. Drew his wife Kitty, the Institute imparts knowledge of play and the inner creative spirit through direct hands-on experience. Author, artist, early childhood educator, Dr. Drew is one of the founders of the Reusable Resources Association (RRA), established in Florida in 1998. He has pioneered the development of reusable resource centers as a sustainable community building strategy that provides materials for creative reuse to promote quality early childhood education and art-making in the lives of children and adults alike.Since 1982, he has been a member and presenter of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and working to establish statewide Play, Policy, and Practice Interest Forums within AEYC state affiliates. He is a member of The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) Dr. Drew’s Discovery Blocks were chosen Best Toy of the Year in 1982 by the Parent’s Choice Foundation and won the Childhood Resources Institute Classic Toy Award in 2007. Find Dr. Drew… www.drdrewsblocks.com www.reusableresources.org

  5. Workshops & Field Trips School field trips integrate art and environmental issues into class curriculum. Workshops and on-site field trips include a presentation, age-appropriate activities and a project using recycled/reused materials. On-site field trips (up to 15) also include a tour of Resource Depot. Building Learning Communities Through Art & Culture at Roosevelt Middle School BLC: Last year, Mesopotamia…this year, Egypt and How A Bill Becomes A Law Community Events Classroom Programs

  6. I pledge to: Renew my personal commitment to recycling, and Reduce my personal waste by increasing the recycling efforts at home, school and work, then Relay the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling to encourage others to recycle by serving as an example in my community. We challenge you to take the R3 pledge. Take a pledge card here or at www.resourcedepot.net

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