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DONATE MATERIALS

Donation Pause​​​

Since our creative reuse resale shop is not yet open, we do not have items going out the door which means not enough room to accept donations. We will reassess in a few weeks as we begin offering online sales.

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We are ready to accept donations at our bigger space on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays during regular shop hours. Please call ahead to ensure a staff member will be available: 847-250-7185. Our new address is 935 E. Rand Rd, Arlington Heights.

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DO NOT leave donations outside the door if we are closed!

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​Teachers, students, artists, and creative types know how to take used and forgotten items and put them to good use! Check out our list of materials we accept that are clean, safe, and still usable. We may look through the items and let you know if there is anything we are not able to accept. Items can be loose or mismatched! Partial packages and partially used items are all a part of what we are working to save from the landfill and get out into the community to be used. 

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During shop hours we can accept two bags or boxes at a time so we can keep up with donations. If you have more, please call ahead or make an appointment. 

 

Top of our need list items are highlighted in green below. 

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Reach us at 847.250.7185 or info@greener-good.org

Crafts Supplies

ART SUPPLIES

  • Blenders and erasers

  • Calligraphy

  • Canvases (blank)

  • Chalk

  • Clay and related tools

  • Drawing and art utensils

  • Drawing compass

  • Easels

  • Linocut materials

  • Mosaic materials (glass, ceramic)

  • Paint, paintbrushes, related tools

  • Pastels

  • Sketchbooks and paper

  • Stretch canvas (higher quality is in demand)

  • Watercolors and paper

Image by Jas Min

BITS & BOBS

  • Bread tags

  • Colorful, random objects

  • Dice​

  • Fun trinkets

  • Game pieces (they can be incomplete sets and one-offs)

  • Keys

  • Magnets (not refrigerator travel magnets)

  • Old tennis balls for good lil' doggies

  • Paper grocery bags

  • Pinback buttons

  • Printer cartridges (empty)

  • Spools

School Supply

CLASSROOM and OFFICE SUPPLIES

  • Adult coloring books

  • Binder rings and binder clips

  • Big books (preK, tall books)

  • Books (K-12 grade level)

  • Book Bins

  • Metal bookends

  • ​Calculators (from the last 10 years in working condition)

  • Cardstock

  • Classroom items teachers and students use

  • Colored pencils

  • Glue (school, craft, sticks, super)

  • Erasers

  • Fidgets

  • Handheld 1-hole punch

  • Jewelry (including broken and costume jewelry)

  • Legos

  • Highlighters

  • Markers (Sharpies and dry erase only)

  • Math games

  • Padded mailers (in reusable condition)

  • Page protectors

  • Paper clips

  • Pens

  • Pencils

  • Petri dishes

  • Play plastic animals (small)

  • Pocket folders

  • Pony beads

  • Preschool learning items

  • Printer paper (reams)

  • Reinforcement circles

  • Rewards

  • Rubberbands

  • Rulers and protractors - 12 inch rulers needed

  • Science kits

  • Scissors (adult all types)

  • Spanish teaching materials, especially kids books

  • Tape ("Scotch", packing, washi, fun duct tape patterns)

  • Tape dispensers with heavy bottom

  • Wood puzzleboards

Crafts Supplies

CRAFT SUPPLIES

  • Beads

  • Beeswax

  • Charms

  • Collage ephemera and materials

  • Clay (air dry, oven bake, polymer)

  • Dot markers

  • Fabric (1/4 yard or larger)

  • Felt sheets with and without sticky backing

  • Felting materials and tools

  • Glue (hot glue sticks, mod podge, tacky glue, e6000)

  • Googly eyes

  • Leather and vinyl scraps (5"x9" or larger)

  • Marbles (round)

  • Mason jars

  • Pipe cleaners

  • Playdough

  • Pom poms

  • Pony beads​

  • Styrofoam balls and shapes

  • Tempera crayons

  • Velcro

  • Wire

  • Craft supplies not on our Pause list (below)

Image by Darling Arias

NEEDLE ART & SEWING

  • Batting for quilting

  • Blocking boards

  • Buttons

  • Crochet hooks

  • Cutting mats

  • Embroidery hoops, thread, kits

  • Embroidery fabric

  • Fabric - quilting, cotton, (clean, fat quarter or larger) 

  • Grommets

  • Interfacing

  • Knitting needles

  • Leather and vinyl scraps (clean, 4"x6" or larger)

  • Macrame cord

  • Scissors - all types

  • Sewing needles of all sizes

  • Stitch counters and savers

  • String

  • Thread

  • Yarn - especially baby, sport, chunky and wool

  • Zippers

Image by Marc Newberry

SCRAPBOOKING & COLLAGE

  • Bone folder

  • Cricut machines (working) and related materials

  • Used concert and show tickets

  • Dye cut stamps and machines

  • Embellishments (pause on accepting)

  • Maps

  • Postcards

  • Punches

  • Scrapbook paper (pause on accepting)

Image by Tuyen Vo

TOOLS

  • Cutting mats

  • Measuring tape

  • Leather punch

  • Paper cutter

  • Sewing machines (beginner types in working condition)

  • Tile cutting tools (mosaic)

Image by Tuyen Vo

PAUSE ON ACCEPTING
There are certain items we can't accept as we already have a lot

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  • Binders

  • Bulletin borders

  • Calendars (whole or pictures only)

  • Clothes pins

  • Corks

  • Craft foam

  • Crayons​

  • Fabric paint

  • Fabric remnants less than 1 yd

  • Glitter

  • Knitting needles

  • Looms

  • Mechanical pencils

  • Notebooks (spiral, bound, graph, lined, unlined)

  • Organizers

  • Paper (we do need 8.5x11 reams of paper)

  • Perler beads, patterns, trays

  • Permanent markers

  • Popsicle sticks

  • Puzzles (50-1000 pieces)

  • Ribbon

  • Rulers

  • Sandpaper

  • Scrapbooking embellishments

  • Staples, staplers, staple removers

  • Sewing patterns - 1970 and prior years are welcome

  • Stamps (cardmaking-type)

  • Vase gems

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