Collaboration Category
Local businesses and social enterprises
Local entities that can contribute materials, space, logistics, technical support, or funding.
Typical Collaboration Shapes
These examples describe common ways this category can show up in local chapter work.
- in-kind donations
- storage
- event support
Category Notes
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Potential Collaboration Opportunities in This Category
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category_slug matches local-businesses-social-enterprises.
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Current matching opportunities: 60.
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Leftovers Foundation / Rescue Food
Leftovers Foundation's Rescue Food program reduces food waste and greenhouse gas emissions while supporting organizations that meet immediate food needs. Its model includes food rescue, backyard harvesting, volunteer app-based delivery, service-agency relationships, and donor pathways, making it a strong local logistics and food-systems partner for BWB Calgary.
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Local First Arizona
Local First Arizona is a statewide local-business and community-development organization focused on inclusive economic development, local business support, rural and Tribal community connections, community gardens, green business support, workforce development, and local events. It could help BWB Arizona find local vendors, in-kind donors, storage/logistics support, repair or reuse partners, food entrepreneurs, and locally rooted businesses for civic projects.
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Goodwill Central Texas
Goodwill Central Texas operates retail, donation, recycling, job-training, workforce advancement, commercial services, and education programs across Central Texas. Its reuse economy and workforce-development model could support BWB Austin projects needing donated goods channels, reuse materials, job-resource referrals, or event support from a large local social enterprise.
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CERO Cooperative, Inc.
CERO Cooperative is a Boston-area worker-owned organic waste management cooperative started by immigrants, women, and people of color. It provides composting for restaurants, schools, offices, residential properties, events, and special projects, with training, signage, totes, collection, and impact reporting. This is a strong practical partner for low-waste BWB events and neighborhood compost pilots.
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Chicago Furniture Bank
Chicago Furniture Bank is a nonprofit social enterprise that redistributes donated furniture to families in need. It “serves as an intermediary between Chicagoans who have extra furniture and those without it” and explicitly calls for volunteers to help furnish homes.
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Conceptos Plásticos
Conceptos Plásticos transforms recycled plastic into construction materials and circular-economy projects with social, environmental, and economic impact. It is a practical fit for BWB Colombia projects involving creative reuse, temporary infrastructure, benches, shade, storage, classrooms, or repair/build prototypes.
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EatCloud
EatCloud uses technology to connect surplus food with food banks and social organizations, reducing waste, hunger, and emissions. It could strengthen BWB Colombia's food-recovery and event-surplus logistics, especially when BWB gatherings produce usable excess food.
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Scraps Mile High
Scraps Mile High is a Denver composting service with residential and commercial offerings. It may fit BWB Colorado as a practical event partner for compost logistics, food-scrap diversion, and community education around lower-waste gatherings.
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Resource Central
Resource Central is a Boulder-based conservation nonprofit and social-enterprise-style resource provider focused on saving water, reducing waste, conserving energy, materials reuse, garden kits, lawn replacement, sprinkler evaluations, and waterwise education. It could support BWB Colorado with reused building materials, waterwise landscaping education, or climate-resilient neighborhood improvement projects.
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Grow Local South Texas
Grow Local South Texas works to improve access to, education about, and advocacy for affordable nutrient-dense foods. It operates the Grow Local Farmers' Market in Corpus Christi, connects local farmers with the community, supports local food and essentials access, and provides youth, farmer, producer, garden-management, and food-system education.
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Rebel Nell
Rebel Nell is a Detroit social enterprise that repurposes fallen graffiti into jewelry and describes a mission of employment and skill development for women facing barriers. Its material-reuse, art, corporate/nonprofit experience, and social-impact model make it a plausible partner for creative reuse workshops, fundraising products, or community art activations.
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RREUSE
RREUSE is a European network of social enterprises active in reuse, repair, and recycling. It is a strong fit for BWB Europe projects needing reclaimed materials, repair capacity, furniture or equipment redistribution, circular-economy expertise, or social-enterprise partners that combine environmental and social outcomes.
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Funds2Orgs
Funds2Orgs is an Orlando-area shoe-drive fundraising and reuse enterprise that works with schools, nonprofits, families, and CSR groups; its model combines community collection, pickup logistics, landfill diversion, and fundraising by weight. It could be a practical logistics partner for BWB Florida collection drives that also reduce textile waste.
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Empire Store
Empire Store is a practical logistics partner because it is a year-round grocery-and-deli business roughly five miles south of Gerlach, with public-facing evidence that it serves as a key local supply point. For a Fly Ranch chapter, that makes it a plausible partner for small-scale supply staging, locally rooted drives, volunteer meal support, or community notice-sharing.
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Bruno's Country Club
Bruno's is one of the most visible and longstanding public-facing businesses in Gerlach, combining food service, hospitality, and attached service amenities. That makes it a realistic local support partner for meals, informal convenings, visiting trainers or artists, and practical town-based logistics during small Fly Ranch chapter activities.
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Groundswell
Groundswell, formerly Galveston's Own Farmers Market, operates a year-round producers-only farmers market and food-community programs in Galveston. Its public site describes food access, MarketMatch for SNAP users, WIC and senior produce supports, Young Gardeners, Victory Gardens, Real Food Project, cooking classes, volunteer pathways, and a community hub mission centered on food, equity, education, sustainability, and resilience.
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Maui Hub
Maui Hub is a nonprofit local-food marketplace and distribution network that supports Maui farmers, producers, families, SNAP/EBT accessibility, food security initiatives, and community resilience. It can connect local producers, buyers, and food-access efforts, making it a practical social-enterprise-style partner for BWB activities focused on local food systems, resilient supply chains, and community support.
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The Sewing Labs
The Sewing Labs is a Kansas City nonprofit/social enterprise focused on sewing training, classes, community projects, volunteerism, in-kind donations, and practical textile production. It could support BWB Heartland projects involving repair, fabric reuse, navigation bags, warmth items, disaster-response sewing, or skill-building workshops.
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Magpies & Peacocks
Magpies & Peacocks is a Houston 501(c)(3) nonprofit design house and social-enterprise-style reuse lead focused on upcycled fashion, reclaimed waste textiles, local production, education, collaboration, community investment, and the MAKR Collective workforce program for survivors of trauma and underserved communities. Its Houston store and public volunteer/donation pathways make it a strong partner for creative reuse, textile diversion, workforce-linked workshops, and in-kind material collaboration.
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Homeboy Industries
Homeboy Industries operates multiple social enterprises alongside free services, workforce development, education, legal, mental health, tattoo removal, and reentry support. Its bakery, cafe, catering, silkscreen/embroidery, electronics recycling, and other enterprise infrastructure could fit BWB projects needing mission-aligned vendors, event support, printing, food, workforce pathways, or in-kind business collaboration.
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Willy Street Co-op
Willy Street Co-op is a community-owned natural foods cooperative in Madison with explicit sustainability, local-supplier, accessibility, community, charitable giving, Double Dollars, community reinvestment, outreach, classes, events, and community-room pathways. It is a plausible local-business partner for food-system education, in-kind support, event space, outreach, and small community-benefit projects.
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Good Cycles
Good Cycles is a Melbourne social enterprise focused on youth employment, bikes, green jobs, and community benefit. It could fit BWB Melbourne projects involving bike repair, sustainable transport, youth pathways, logistics, and practical skill-building.
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Green Collect
Green Collect is a Melbourne circular-economy social enterprise working with reuse, recycling, office clear-outs, and employment pathways for people facing barriers. It is a strong practical partner for BWB Melbourne reuse, materials recovery, and low-waste event infrastructure.
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For Change Co.
For Change Co. is a Melbourne social enterprise that creates paid hospitality training and employment pathways for young people at risk of or experiencing homelessness. It could support BWB Melbourne events through values-aligned catering, venue relationships, or youth-pathway collaboration.
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PetStar
PetStar is a Mexican PET recycling enterprise that describes itself as operating the world's largest food-grade PET recycling plant, recycling more than 3.5 billion PET bottles per year, and supporting an inclusive collection model benefiting waste pickers and urban recyclers. It could fit BWB Mexico projects needing recycling education, circular-economy logistics, materials diversion, or corporate social-impact support.
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Better Futures Minnesota
Better Futures Minnesota operates environmental services that create employment and economic opportunity, including deconstruction, reuse, recycling, appliance recovery, property services, a ReUse Warehouse, and paid workforce pathways. It is a strong local social-enterprise lead for material reuse, waste diversion, project crews, and practical environmental-service partnerships.
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Three Sisters Kitchen
Three Sisters Kitchen is a nonprofit community food space in downtown Albuquerque that combines affordable locally produced food, a local foods shop, a commercial test kitchen, food-business training, community classes, and programming around food traditions. It could support BWB New Mexico projects that need a trusted food-space partner, local-food education, entrepreneur support, community classroom programming, or culturally grounded food access work.
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Glass Half Full
Glass Half Full is a New Orleans glass-recycling enterprise that turns glass waste into sand and gravel for coastal restoration, new glass, event recycling, commercial pickup, residential pickup, free drop-off hubs, and related partner projects. It is a strong practical fit for BWB New Orleans events, burn-adjacent waste diversion, coastal-restoration education, and material-reuse projects.
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Big Reuse
Big Reuse is a Brooklyn-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating reuse centers and community programs that minimize waste and cultivate a greener, more resilient future. Its site lists material donation, reuse shopping, community composting, curbside composting outreach, street tree care, tree guard projects, volunteer opportunities, corporate volunteering, and measurable annual impact such as tree care, reopened food-scrap drop-offs, and landfill diversion.
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The Industrial Commons
The Industrial Commons describes its work as rebuilding locally rooted wealth, jumpstarting community-owned cooperatives, developing manufacturing enterprises, supporting workforce development, and transforming a brownfield Innovation Campus into space for manufacturing, training, incubation, and collaboration. It could be a strong partner for BWB projects needing materials, worker-owned business knowledge, circular-economy thinking, or practical production capacity.
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Bonton Farms
Bonton Farms is a Dallas social-enterprise/community farm rooted in the Bonton neighborhood, with a market/cafe, coffeehouse, grocery connection, harvest products, wellness center, multiple Dallas locations, volunteer opportunities, and programs framed around education, transportation, financial tools, community, health, economic stability, and housing. Its blend of food, community, enterprise, and volunteer infrastructure makes it a strong local partner for BWB North Texas practical service projects.
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Goodwill of Orange County
Goodwill of Orange County operates thrift, donation, workforce development, disability services, veteran services, hiring partnerships, and community programs, with purchases and donated goods supporting local employment services. BWB Orange County could explore reuse-oriented drives, volunteer-friendly circular-economy education, or material-donation pathways that avoid duplicating established collection systems.
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ReMida Perth
ReMida Perth is a creative reuse center that rescues unwanted materials and repurposes them for education, arts, and environmental activities. It is an unusually strong fit for BWB Perth projects involving creative reuse, public art, low-cost build materials, and waste reduction.
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The Resource Exchange
The Resource Exchange is a Philadelphia creative-reuse organization that sells affordable reclaimed materials, accepts material donations, hosts gallery/workshop activity, and reports diverting hundreds of tons of material from landfill since 2009. It is a strong fit for BWB projects needing low-cost materials, creative reuse expertise, volunteer material sorting, or sustainable making partnerships.
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ReBuilding Center
ReBuilding Center combines a reuse store, repair classes, volunteer opportunities, group team-building formats, and material donation intake. It is an unusually strong match for BWB-style build culture that wants to source materials, teach practical skills, and reduce waste at the same time.
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Free Geek
Free Geek's public mission pairs sustainable technology reuse with digital access and education, and it offers both volunteer opportunities and community technology pathways. It is a strong lead for projects that blend mutual aid, digital inclusion, and reuse.
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Reno Public Market
Reno Public Market describes itself as both an indoor food hall and a community hub, and it actively hosts live music, markets, and family-friendly community events. That makes it a plausible venue partner for visible, low-barrier civic activations, donation drives, resource fairs, or community-building events where BWB Reno needs foot traffic and event support.
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Great Basin Food Co Op
Great Basin Food Co Op is community-owned, promotes the local food system, highlights food justice, and sustains community-oriented efforts like Round Up for Food Justice and Friends of the Foodshed. That makes it a strong social-enterprise-style lead for food-access, educational, and neighborhood-resilience collaborations.
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Reno Collective
Reno Collective is a Reno coworking community for freelancers, startups, remote employees, and independent workers, and it describes monthly socials and community-organized gatherings. For BWB Reno, it is a plausible low-friction partner for meeting space, volunteer recruitment among independent workers, or small civic planning sessions.
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Recology San Francisco
Recology San Francisco can support community-facing sustainability work through special-event recycling and hauling services, public waste-sorting education, and its Artist in Residence infrastructure, including AIR+ collaboration pathways. For BWB, that creates a practical bridge between logistics, reuse, public education, and arts activation.
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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento ReStore
ReStore is a classic social-enterprise partner for creative reuse, building materials diversion, and supply donation logistics. It fits BWB particularly well if the chapter wants to turn salvaged materials into civic furniture, signage, shade, or repair-day resources.
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Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op
Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op is a community-rooted, values-forward local business and could be a practical partner for tabling, food drives, community education, or small in-kind support tied to sustainability and local service. It is especially relevant for projects at the intersection of food, community health, and public participation.
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Goodwill San Antonio
Goodwill San Antonio is a 501(c)(3) social enterprise and workforce organization that combines donation/retail operations with career training, employment placement, business services, reentry services, youth services, sustainability, and corporate volunteer/partner pathways across a 24-county territory. It could be a practical partner for materials reuse, workforce-resource events, volunteer days, in-kind donation routing, and circular-economy education.
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Goodwill Industries of San Diego County
Goodwill Industries of San Diego County combines donation logistics, reuse retail, job-support programming, and a large countywide footprint. It could be a practical partner for material reuse, post-event donation routing, volunteer sorting, and circular-economy education connected to BWB sustainability projects.
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San Diego Habitat for Humanity ReStore
San Diego Habitat for Humanity ReStore accepts and sells donated home-improvement materials and furnishings to support affordable-housing work. It could help BWB San Diego route usable building materials away from waste streams and source low-cost materials for small civic builds or repair events.
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Sealand Gear
Sealand Gear is a Cape Town-born B Corp producing bags and gear from waste and upcycled materials, with public commitments to environmental and social responsibility. It could be a practical in-kind, materials, circular-design, or sponsor lead for BWB South Afrika projects focused on reuse, repair, event waste, or durable field kits.
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Rewoven
Rewoven is a Cape Town circular-textiles social enterprise associated with collecting textile offcuts and repurposing textile waste into recycled materials and products such as blankets, insulation, and filling. This fits BWB projects around creative reuse, emergency supplies, camp-waste diversion, and materials-based mutual aid.
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RAFT
RAFT operates a large San José facility centered on low-cost educational materials, upcycling, volunteer participation, and corporate engagement. It is a strong fit for reuse-based civic projects, youth workshop supplies, and practical material sourcing.
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San José Made
San José Made has a proven model for pop-up markets, maker-facing retail, and public-space activation in downtown San José and nearby South Bay locations. It is a useful lead when BWB wants to combine civic participation with local maker economy support, art markets, or public activation.
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Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas ReStore
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas ReStore functions as a home improvement, thrift, and home store carrying new and gently used cabinets, appliances, home decor, furniture, and other items while supporting local housing work. It offers donation drop-off and pick-up services, making it a practical social-enterprise lead for reused materials, in-kind donation routing, DIY supplies, and circular-economy collaboration.
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The Social Outfit
The Social Outfit is a Sydney social enterprise and ethical fashion label supporting refugee and new-migrant women through training, employment, and textile work. It is a strong fit for reuse-oriented art builds, sewing and mending workshops, banners, soft infrastructure, and dignified paid collaboration rather than extractive volunteer asks.
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Thread Together
Thread Together redirects new clothing from fashion excess to people experiencing hardship through charity and social-service networks. It could align with BWB Sydney projects involving disaster recovery, clothing insecurity, dignity kits, event surplus logistics, or textile-waste reduction.
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Community Wood Recycling
Community Wood Recycling is a nationwide network of social enterprises that collects and reuses wood while creating work and training opportunities. BWB UK could use this network for reclaimed timber, build materials, wood-reuse education, and circular-economy collaborations.
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Library of Things
Library of Things is a community-powered social enterprise that helps people rent useful items such as DIY tools and household equipment, while promoting practical skills, repair, saving money, and reducing waste. BWB UK could use it for tool access, local skills sessions, or lending-model inspiration.
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Spice Kitchen Incubator
Spice Kitchen Incubator supports New American, refugee, immigrant, and low-to-moderate-income food entrepreneurs in Salt Lake County with technical assistance, market access, catering, food trucks, special events, and community-building programming. It could connect BWB Utah events with local food entrepreneurs while supporting inclusive small-business ecosystems.
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Recycling Alternative
Recycling Alternative is a Vancouver company with explicit social-purpose language, community partnerships, and experience supporting festivals and events with waste diversion. It is a natural fit for BWB projects that need practical zero-waste logistics, sorting systems, or circular-economy event support.
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United We Can
United We Can is a Vancouver-based environmental social-enterprise-style nonprofit whose depot and community partner programs create income opportunities for marginalized collectors in the Downtown Eastside. It fits BWB Vancouver particularly well for refundable-container drives, depot partnerships, and projects linking environment with dignity and livelihoods.
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ShareWares
ShareWares is a Vancouver-based reusable-container business built for venues and events. Because BWB chapters often host volunteer gatherings and fundraisers, ShareWares is a strong local lead for replacing single-use serving ware with a visible circular-economy system.
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Busboys and Poets
Busboys & Poets is a DC-based café-bookstore and cultural hub that “uplifts racial and cultural connections” through events. Its spaces and audience-focused programming (poetry nights, talks) make it a natural venue or co-host for community gatherings aligned with BWB’s values.
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Ballard Reuse
Ballard Reuse is a Seattle used building-materials retail warehouse with salvaged and reclaimed materials, drop-off pathways, salvage services, and licensed, bonded, insured salvage crews. It could be useful for BWB Washington State projects that need affordable reused materials, deconstruction referrals, small build materials, or circular-economy education around keeping useful materials out of the waste stream.