Sharon Jackson-Pincham is the Corporate Relations Director in charge of donor relations and product procurement for The Storehouse of World Vision Chicago. The Storehouse is a nonprofit organization created to improve housing for families and rehabilitate community facilities in Chicago's low-income neighborhoods. Donated building supplies are received from corporate partners, and are then made available to qualified nonprofit groups and individuals. Sharon joined World Vision Chicago in January 2000, and brings a strong background in sales, quality, marketing and operations. She has, for two years, served on ReDO's Donations Program Steering Committee, and has been active in working with various trade associations to heighten their awareness about alternative avenues to distribute obsolete inventory. Prior to coming to The Storehouse, Sharon enjoyed an 11-year career at Mobil Oil Corporation in various management positions: marketing, operations, quality control, and sales in the Lubricants and Plastics Division. Sharon also has a background in medical research. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees from Jackson State University in biology, chemistry, and environmental science. She also received a concurrent honors scholarship from the National Institutes of Health Research Training Program for her academic and research achievements. She has co-authored several scientific and medical articles and serves as board member for the Park Manor Christian Church Credit Union. Sharon has one daughter, Christina.

Vice-President: Leslie Kirkland
Executive Director
The Loading Dock
Baltimore, Maryland

Leslie has ten years experience working with The Loading Dock in a variety of capacities. She joined the organization in 1989 as the Office Manager, later became Assistant Director, Co-Director, and Executive Director in 1996. Leslie directs all aspects of operating and managing this growing reuse enterprise. The Loading Dock is one of the premier building material reuse centers in the country, and has been the site of a variety of workshops and training courses in the industry. The organization accepts all types of building and refurbishing materials: from doors to windows, from cabinets to flooring, from shingles to caulking -- that is then provided to low-income people at a small handling fee. They receive donated materials from manufacturers, distributors, contractors, homeowners and landfills throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania and the Washington D.C. area. The Loading Dock redistributes over 7,000 tons per year of recovered building materials. The Loading Dock also provides their customers/clients with information on using the materials from the facility through monthly home repair workshops on plumbing, roofing, landscaping and lead abatement. Leslie has been an active participant in ReDO's Donations Steering Committee and believes that a national network for redistribution will greatly assist the individual, non-profit reuse centers.

Treasurer/Secretary:
Dee Dee Diccicco-Craft
Director
ERC Community Warehouse
Hoosick Falls, New York

Dee Dee Diccicco-Craft has worked in the environmental field for nine years, formerly as owner of Environmentally Yours, a recycled office products and discard management consulting company. Her involvement with the Reuse Development Organization began in 1995, when she helped coordinate the Chemical Bank Conference on Reuse in New York City. Dee Dee is currently Director of the Eastern Rensselaer County Solid Waste Management Authority and the ERC Community Warehouse, a non-profit reuse center located in a rural section of Upstate New York. The Community Warehouse accepts donations of reusable discards; home and office furnishings, appliances, computers and electronics, housewares, building materials, even exercise and sports equipment; and resells them at low cost to those who need them. Low-income residents, schools, government agencies, non-profit groups, college students and small business owners are among those who benefit from access to materials provided through the Community Warehouse. Donors, who benefit by avoiding waste disposal fees and earning tax deductions for their donations, include individuals, businesses and institutions from New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. With two full-time and two part-time staff members, the Warehouse diverts an estimated 150 tons a year from waste disposal, and generates nearly $100,000 of economic activity.

Steve Hoffmann
Market Manager
Earth Square
Milliken & Company
LaGrange, GA

Tom Kacandes
TKM Materials, LLC
New Palz, NY

Tom Kacandes has been involved in solid waste issues since before the garbage barge, starting with the New York State Legislative Commission on Solid Waste Management in 1985. While there, he helped make an award-winning documentary on solid waste, and ran what were then the largest SW policy conferences in the country. During that time, the Commission wrote all the law governing solid waste in NY. He also spent 14 months managing the NYS office building recycling program. Since 1989, Tom has served as "public-service consultant" for the NYS Department of Economic Development's award-winning Office of Recycling Market Development (ORMD). He helps administer $6 million a year in Recycling Investment Program funds and helps clients in business planning, financing, and marketing. His office presently funds six reuse and two remanufacturing projects in the state. He convened some of the first meetings of reuse enterprises in 1993, and was principal organizer of the February 1995 Chemical (Chase) Bank Conference on Reuse. He is a founding member, former Secretary, and current President of the Reuse Development Organization, Inc. (ReDO). He recently completed his MBA degree and has started a new recycling venture for construction waste, such as asphalt shingles and drywall.

Tom Polk
Director
Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta
Atlanta, GA

Tom Polk is founder of the Furniture Bank of Metro Atlanta in 1988. Tom remains with the Atlanta, Georgia, organization as the executive director, where is responsible for all management issues, the development of materials and programs, and grant writing. He also represents the agency in public relations, fund-raising, and in soliciting in-kind donations from corporations, wholesalers, retailers, hotels and hospitals. Prior to starting the furniture bank, Tom was the business administrator for Sandy Springs Christian Church, in Sandy Springs, Georgia, where he recommended and provided oversight in the area of budgeting and cash flow, and conferred with city, county and state agencies on regulatory requirements or problems. He was also the Polk County Youth Director and Assistant Director for Iowa Comprehensive Manpower Services in Des Moines, Iowa from 1980 to 1984. Tom has always been active in community programming for the homeless and disadvantaged. He continues to be involved in a variety of community-based organizations, and in addition to the ReDO Board, serves on the boards of Sandy Springs Christian Church and Straight But Not Narrow. Tom brings many skills to the ReDO Board, including grant writing, public relations, personnel administration, and problem solving. Tom is leading a national effort to link the approximately 50 furniture banks across the country into a single unified effort called the National Association of Furniture Banks. Tom is chairing ReDO's Donations Program Steering Committee as a means of expanding the direct donations program to include furniture and household furnishings.

Fred Struever
Project Manager
Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse
Baltimore, Maryland

Fred served as a project manager for Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse projects during the early years, and currently manages all project superintendents and all construction sites. Fred, and his brother Bill Struever were raised in Rochester until they moved to Baltimore in 1974 and started Struever Bros. Eccles, Inc. Both Fred and Bill have played key roles in the city's revitalization through passion, creativity and commitment to rebuilding Baltimore communities.  Their vision for the future is to help Baltimore lead the country in urban revitalization, adaptive reuse of economically obsolescent industrial buildings, brownfields development and the development of Baltimore's "Digital Harbor," a hub of activity for Internet-based companies and new economy start-ups and one of the largest private urban redevelopment of projects in America. Fred leads many large projects, including Tide Point, a 400,000 s.f., $67 million renovation project of the old Proctor & Gamble Soap Factory which is now a technology park; National Museum for Civil War Medicine, a $1.5 million historic renovation of a Civil War era building will double the size of the existing museum and will include a meeting and lecture room and a research library; American Can Company, a $19 million historic renovation opportunity to promote Smart Growth by transforming it into a vibrant retail and office center. The project included restoration of the industrial steel windows; meticulous repairing and repainting of the brick walls; salvage and restoration of virtually all distinctive stacks, ventilators, and monitors on the roofscape. Fred has lead building reuse in the Baltimore area. He also serves on the board of Civic Works, a community service program that rehabs low-income housing, builds community gardens and parks, and tutors and mentors children; and Historic Charles Street Association, Baltimore's oldest business association.

Tiffany Wilmot
Principal, Wilmot & Associates
Nashville, TN

Tiffany Wilmot is the principal officer of Wilmot & Associates, Inc. (W&A), a waste prevention and recycling company located in Nashville, TN. She serves as the project director for W&A and is the primary client contact person. Her background is in solid waste management, recycling planning, reuse and reduction projects, and communications. W&A does consulting and project management work, and has had some high-profile clients, including Saturn Corp.