The Welman Project
The Welman Project
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
2109 S. Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76110
Fort Worth nonprofit creative reuse center. We rescue surplus materials from local businesses, fabric and textiles included, and give them free to educators. Also home to a public makerspace, community store, free bookshop, and classes. Fill a classroom, not a landfill.
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- English
- Scale
- 20+ people
About the practice
The Welman Project is a creative reuse nonprofit in Fort Worth, Texas. Since 2015 we have connected two problems with one solution: businesses throw away usable materials, and teachers pay for classroom supplies out of their own pockets. We collect surplus and discarded materials from local companies (fabric, textiles, and upholstery samples alongside paper, art supplies, and furniture) and give them away free to educators through our Educator Warehouse, the only free creative reuse resource center for educators in North Texas and the largest in Texas. To date we have served more than 20,000 educators from over 3,700 schools, partnered with 885 companies, given away more than $16 million in resources, and kept over 337,000 cubic feet of material out of landfills. In 2026 we moved into the historic Kimbell Milling Company building on South Main Street, a 26,500 square foot home that also holds a public makerspace with classes and camps, a community reuse store, a free community bookshop, and the Buttermilk Gallery for local artists. Materials that teachers don't take find new life in our store, workshops, and makerspace.
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