What is Recycle for a Reason or “R4R”?

What is Recycle for a Reason or “R4R”?
R4R Regular Schedule for Web

Our History

Recycle for a Reason began in January 2013 with a vision to keep household goods, clothing, sporting goods, and furniture from going to "the dump" and reallocating resources to people in need. Our thought was that it would help save the earth's resources, provide affordable goods to our community, and we could use the funds to support other causes.

In short, we wanted to bless the earth, bless those who are financially challenged, bless those who have good, usable items they'd love to donate, and bless our community and world.

We've held more than 110 collections and sales, excluding time lost for Covid and now taking January's off.

Every month we have our "pay what you want" sale on the 2nd Saturday and preceding Friday from 10am - 3 pm. And we have collection days on the two Saturdays before.

R4R

Our Board

  • Jackie Holmquist UMCC
  • Kay Abrams UMCC
  • Dee Davis The Crossing
  • Lynn Elliot Latter Day St. of Jesus Christ, Wasilla
  • Andrea Hofeling Latter Day St. of Jesus Christ, Eagle River
  • Nancy Bernard St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Eagle River

Our Goals

  1. Create a place to recycle used items. Help save the earth’s resources, the local land-fill and tax dollars.
  2. Reallocate community resources to those in need.
  3. Help the financially challenged stretch their incomes.
  4. Create a portal through which new people can be
    introduced to a community of Christians.
  5. Provide an opportunity for volunteer service to high school students and those needing interaction with others.
  6. Raise funds for community and world-wide missions.
  7. Foster personal relationships in the area.
  8. Bring God’s Kingdom to our corner of Alaska.

 

 

IN THESE 10 YEARS… 

 

188 Organizations have benefited from grants or goods.

$5,088 has been given directly for Eagle Scout projects.

$238,445 has been given in benevolences.

Total given in grants = $233,357

Who have we helped?

We don't always know who needs help.  So, we trust many knowledgeable people and organizations to help us share the goods we receive. These organizations are part of an ever-growing list of partners.
 
Airmen's Attic. Alaska Child and Family. Alaska Native Cultural Charter School. Alaska Fine Arts Academy. Alaska SPCA. Alaska Youth Academy, JBER. Alaska Youth Advocates. Alaska Youth for Christ. Alaska’s Chihuahua Rescue. Alternative Justice System. American Diabetes Association. Anchorage Concert Chorus. Anchorage Rescue Mission. Airman’s Attic, JBER. ASD Extended School Year Special Education. AWAIC shelter. Beacon Hill House. Beans Café. Bible Baptist Church. Birchwood Elementary Classrooms. Bird TLC of Anchorage. Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Birchwood Camp. Bird TLC. Boy Scouts of America, Eagle Scout projects. Boys & Girls Club, Eagle River. Bruce Roberts Memorial Camperships. Campbell Creek Elementary classrooms. Catholic Social Services, Refugee Assistance & Immigration. Chugiak Children’s Services. Chugiak Elementary classrooms. Chugiak Elementary reading program. Chugiak High School Bio-tech. Chugiak High School business-wear closet. Chugiak High School, formal-wear closet. Chugiak-Eagle River Senior Center. Chugiak-Eagle River Senior Center Gift Shop. Chugiak-Eagle River Senior Center, Personal Care Assistant. Church of the Nations, Anchorage. Community Covenant Church. Community Health Fair. Covenant House. Cynthia Sage Lowe Benevolent Fund. Daisy Girl Scout Troop 694. Doctors Without Borders. Eagle Crest Assistant Living. Eagle River Food Pantry. Eagle River Grace Brethren, Christmas choir. Eagle River High, NJROTC. Ebenezer Stone Project. Family Promise. Fire Lake Elementary Classrooms. Fire Lake Elementary Native Youth Olympics. Fire Lake Elementary X-country ski program. First Baptist Church of Eagle River, clothes closet. First Student bus drivers. Friends of K-9s, Bethel. Habitat for Humanity Re-Store. Head Start Families. Heart to Heart Pregnancy Resource Center. Hiland Mountain Correctional Center orchestra. Home-schooled students. Homestead Elementary classrooms. Homework Club at UMCC. Kingdom Air Corps. Kings Way Ministry Center. Kool Kat Rescue. Lazy Mountain Baptist Church, Palmer. Lions Club eye glass recycling. local people in need. Love INC, Eagle River. Love INC, Anchorage. Mac Center Hockey program. Mike’s Music, Instrument rehab. Mirror Lake Middle School disaster victims. Mt. Spurr Elementary Classrooms. New Day Alaska ministry. Newborns in Need. Nome residents without coats. Nunaka Valley Elementary Music Program. P.O.W.E.R. (Peer Outreach Workers Educ. & Referral). Palmer Historical Society. Parish Nurse training. Peters Creek Christian Center. Philippine Poverty Project. Rabbit Creek Elem. shoe drive. Ravenwood Elementary Classrooms. S.A.V.E., ASD Alternative Education Program. ShelterBox International. St. John’s United Methodist Church, Guatemalan mission. The Crossing, ministry to newly freed prisoners. Threads. Tot Time at UMCC. Trail Life U.S.A. Tyson Elementary school. United Protestant Church, Palmer. Whaley Center, Anchorage.
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