Turning Trash into Treasure One in 5 children

Turning Trash into Treasure

• One in 5 children in El Paso County go to bed every night hungry. • 1 in 7 of people in Southern Colorado don’t know where our next meal will come from. • Our community isn’t the best it can be when people are hungry.

• Like the clients we serve, Care and Share longs to contribute to our own success. • Nonprofits can no longer rely on the generosity of individuals, corporations, and foundations.

• Missions of funding organizations change, but yet, the need to feed people remains. • We cannot rely solely on philanthropists or the government to solve our community’s needs.

The Problem to be Solved • People are hungry and they aren’t getting the food they need to thrive. • More than one third of the food supply in our country ends up in a landfill every year. • That is enough for every person in our country to receive one meal a day, every day, of the year.

A Solution… GOALZERO Recycling Zero Waste for Zero Hunger In September 2016 we launched our social enterprise—GOALZERO Recycling Growth, continual change, and learning

• Our focus originally was to work with businesses that generate large amounts of cardboard, plastic (shrink wrap, foam, etc. ), and pallet lumber waste. • For a fee we removed these materials and would sell them to generate a revenue stream that will ultimately provide meals to people facing hunger.

Milestones • • • A strong reputation in the recycling community Rich customer relationships Nearly 400, 000 pounds of material diverted from landfill Business processes and procedures Strong team Community awareness

Milestones • • • Excellent vendor relationships Community education around recycling Developed greater awareness for Care and Share as well as about the challenges of hunger Engaged community members who weren’t originally friends of Care and Share Increasing brand strength and recognition, strong standing for such a new company

New Opportunity—Free Drop Off Services • • • The concept, what is it? How did we get involved? Who was instrumental in helping us with this opportunity? Why take on the opportunity? How are we operating? What has it meant for our growth?

Benefits and Reactions • Efficiency • What customers are saying • How the recycling community reacted

Time to Pivot Double down on the free, public drop off Very low cost, very high yield opportunity Maintain a few key customer partnerships Grow waste diversion, increasing revenue from key sources • Decrease costs of doing business • •

Care and Share Program • Location remains the same • Operations and processes remain the same • Still engage with same vendors to sell materials • Still process three main materials, plus additional materials • Increase materials we accept, increase diversion, increase revenue with acceptance of additional materials

Care and Share Program • • Create volunteer opportunities Free promotion opportunities Continue community outreach and education, new focus Maintain zero waste mission, potential for revenue stream, and focus on triple bottom line (people, planet, profit)

Exciting Times! • • • Creating community Diverting waste Potential to generate revenue sooner Maintain zero waste mission Continued focus on leading-edge practices

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