What we take
Jewelry
Do you have jewelry that's just sitting around collecting dust?
We work with local partners to help your jewelry get a second life bringing joy to others in your community!
About our partners
How we keep your Jewelry out of landfills.
We partner directly with innovators who transform hard-to-recycle materials into new products—so you can see exactly where your items go and what they become.
Featured Partner
Austin Creative Reuse
Austin Creative Reuse believes that every object has a social, economic and environmental impact, and that the creative reuse of these objects can spark creativity, awareness and exploration.
The mission of Austin Creative Reuse is to foster conservation and reuse through creativity, education and community building. Through its creative reuse center, ACR collects, processes and re-sells gently used creative materials donated by individuals and businesses; educates the community about how to reduce, reuse and create in responsible and fun ways; hosts events, activities and classes to bring people together to build awareness around conscious consumption, sustainability and art; and promotes awareness of like-minded organizations to reduce overlap and increase awareness of city resources. To date, ACR has diverted more than one million pounds of usable creative materials from the landfill, hosted hundreds of workshops and community events to promote creative reuse and supported thousands of local educators and students with affordable classroom materials and lesson ideas.
Featured Partner
Hope Family Thrift Store
The Hope Family Thrift Store was created to provide financial support to the Austin Disaster Relief Network. They provide a clean, organized distribution center for disaster survivors to receive free clothing, shoes and goods and offer gently used quality merchandise at affordable prices to the local community. 100% of their net profits support the mission of Austin Disaster Relief Network. This service is accomplished by volunteers, organizations, community groups and businesses that partner with the store by donating their time and resources to ensure any community and families affected by a disaster are fully supported during such an unsure time of their life.
Featured Partner
Bella Boutique
Bella Boutique provides free formal gowns, shoes, jewelry, and accessories to students in financial need to enhance self-image and break down societal barriers to formative experiences. Since 2014, Bella Boutique is 100% volunteer led and run and has dressed more than 2,200 teens with over $330,000 worth of free formal gear. Students come in through the foster care system, with social workers, guardians, teachers or parents. While their boutique site is located in the Denver-Metro area, students come to Bella from all over the state of Colorado, as well as surrounding states. Bella Boutique breaks down financial barriers to milestone events so all students can celebrate among peers.
Featured Partner
Dress for Success Denver
Dress for Success was established to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. Since 2006, Dress for Success Denver has transformed the lives of over 19,000 women and distributed more than $1,000,000 in clothing and accessories. Materials provided by Ridwell members will help Dress for Success support and provide more opportunities for women in our communities.
Featured Partner
The East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse
Founded in 1979 by two Oakland public school teachers, the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse is a non-profit organization whose mission is to divert waste materials from landfills by collecting and redistributing discarded goods as low- or no-cost supplies for art, education, and social services in their retail store, while educating the public about the environmental benefits of reusing materials. Your donations of quality reusable materials are sorted and made available to customers through their retail store. In addition, several times throughout the year, they host free community giveaways of specific items.
Featured Partner
The PROP Shop of Eden Prairie
The PROP Shop isn't just a resale store full of beautiful clothes, household items, books, and furniture — they are a nonprofit serving local families. The PROP Shop sells new and gently used items to everyone in the community and offers a separate Family Service Center, which provides free clothing, housewares and furniture to referred families and individuals in need in Chanhassen and Eden Prairie. Since 2007, they have served over 3,000 local families and have given out over 146,000 bags of items.
Featured Partner
Boma Jewelry
Boma Jewelry is a Seattle-based family business with a sustainable approach to jewelry craftsmanship. They are a Social Purpose Corporation and are one of ten certified B-Corp jewelry companies in the USA (the only one in Washington State!). For decades BOMA has worked with recycling precious metals - they only use recycled precious metal in order to limit environmental impact. They believe in a fully-integrated, circular approach to sustainability where they repair, restore, replace, refuse, reject, and rethink the products they use and the processes they implement. Through Boma Jewelry, your old jewelry will get another chance to shine!
Featured Partner
Rose Haven
Rose Haven is a day shelter and community center providing resources, emotional support, and community connections to more than 4,000 women, children, and marginalized genders experiencing homelessness and poverty each year. As a low-barrier shelter, they provide access to basic needs, such as a safe mailing address, food, supplies, showers, and laundry paired with long-term empowerment activities including one-on-one advocacy, support groups, financial assistance, and more. Their vision is "a community where everyone has safety, stability, love, health, and home", and items donated by Ridwell members help Rose Haven fulfill it.
Featured Partner
Women's Shelter Jewelry Project
The Women's Shelter Jewelry Project collects jewelry donations to support women's shelters throughout Seattle. With the help of volunteers, they sort, clean, repair, and remake the pieces they receive. The finished pieces get donated to women's shelters and non-profits that support underserved women in the community.
