Tossed & Found™
reclaim, recycle, rebuild, replicate, rejuvenate
Tossed & Found ™ is a social enterprise program designed to empower poor and homeless individuals to rebuild their lives to self-sufficiency, by teaching marketable vocational skills, such as carpentry and construction, through the production of artistic functional furniture made from reclaimed hurricane debris and salvaged building materials.
While clients are actively learning employable skills, their self-confidence, self-respect and sense of dignity increase, making them feel proud and important for the work they are doing. Click here to view Tossed & Found ™ client stories. |  |
- Salvaged materials are collected from hurricane affected sites & transported to the Outreach Center workshop.
- University architecture students design & create multi-line prototypes of artistic functional furniture from the recycled materials.
- Poor and homeless participants replicate artistic & functional items developing employable skills.
- The value-added products are marketed & sold, providing ongoing program funding.
- Participants are employed while gaining transferable job skills and self-sufficiency.
- University students gain valuable hands-on experience while serving the community and honing professional skills.
- Hurricane debris is returned to the commerce stream leaving positive environmental impact.
- Retail customers purchase high quality products & promote a noble enterprise.
- Community benefits from positive economic & social impact.
Coffee Table - reclaimed cypress window sash with glass, formed birch |  |
Lighted Curio Cabinet - reclaimed cypress window sash, birch, galvanized pipe |  |
FULL CATALOGUE LISTING OF PRODUCTS AVAILABLE SOON!
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