A membership library to borrow all kinds of tools, the Chicago Tool Library is a community nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide equitable access to tools, equipment, and information to allow all Chicagoans to learn, share, and create.
Circular Economy
FreeGeek Chicago
A not-for-profit community organization that recycles used computers and parts to provide functional computers, education, internet access and job skills training to those who want them.
Rebuilding Exchange
A nonprofit social enterprise that repurposes building materials and provides job training while creating a market for reclaimed building materials.
The WasteShed
The wasteshed is a creative reuse center that collects reusable art and school materials that would otherwise be thrown away and make them available to teachers, artists, & anyone who needs them, at low cost.
Working Bikes
Working Bikes rescues discarded bicycles and gives them new life by redistributing them as tools of empowerment in local and global communities.