Friends of Spare Parts
To advance reuse and sustainability through creativity and the arts.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
To bring much-needed art programs--specifically to schools serving predominantly children of low-income Hispanic San Antonio families,
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Creative Reuse Educational Programming
Spare Parts takes art and reuse out into the community and provides hands-on demonstrations or make-and-take projects at various community and school programs, festivals, and family educational events around the San Antonio area. This program aims to advance reuse and sustainability through creativity and the arts by utilizing creative reuse materials directly with the general public.
Center for Creative Reuse
The Spare Parts Center for Creative Reuse facilitates the intake of pre-owned creative materials and supplies that would otherwise be thrown away or underutilized and offers them back into the community through our program offerings and storefront.
Arts Educational Workshops
The Spare Parts Workshop program strives to utilize materials already donated to the Center for Creative Reuse and offers a wide variety of educational workshops that span different arts areas. The workshops, which can run between 1 to 3 hours, emphasize sustainability and take place at the Center for Creative Reuse. Experienced and knowledgable facilitators guide participants through an arts project or process. Attendees can expect take their gained knowledge and continue to practice or apply it at home.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Spare Parts program offers affordable, sustainable art education by relying on donated materials, significantly decreasing project operating costs.
Friends of Spare Parts is actively seeking new funding sources to keep instructor fees low and help fund the collection and storage of re-use materials and exhibits in future years
Contract more Spare Parts educators to teach art classes at Charter, private and public schools. There is a need and we can fill it.
Increase Individual donation and grants.
Increase children served in poverty related zip codes in our City.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Friends of Spare Parts
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2024
Martha Vasquez
Andrea Puentes
North East Independent School District
Anna Rudolph Canter
Justin Kah
USAA
Veronica Emery
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Not applicable -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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