Leadership (8)
- Ann May Woodward
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Executive Director
ann@scrapexchange.org - Phoebe Brush
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Operations Manager / Volunteer Coordinator
operations@scrapexchange.org - Julia Gartrell
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Retail Store Manager
store@scrapexchange.org - Nicole Hogan
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Retail Store Assistant Manager
store2@scrapexchange.org - Rowan Martell
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Events Coordinator
events@scrapexchange.org - Daniel Bagnell
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Collections Coordinator
collections@scrapexchange.org - Ruth Warren
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Marketing and Promotions Coordinator
onlinesales2@scrapexchange.org - Ruth Eckles
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Office Support
office@scrapexchange.org
Topics
Scrap Exchange Named Green Plus Nonprofit of the Year
March 9, 2011
The Institute for Sustainable Development announced its 2011 Green Plus Award winners during a ceremony held in RTP on February 25th. The Scrap Exchange, a creative reuse center in Durham, NC, received the 2011 Green Plus North American Sustainable Enterprise Award for Nonprofit of the Year. Green Plus awards are given to smaller enterprises in the U.S. for excellence in triple bottom line sustainability, and are presented annually at the North Carolina Research Triangle Park Foundation by GlaxoSmithKline. Award winners are chosen for the example they set in balancing business, community, and environmental best practices, for their innovation in sustainability and their efforts to teach their communities and their peers about the topic.
“Green jobs are a key to our long-term prosperity," said Chris Carmody, Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development. "They will come from clean tech companies, but they will also come from traditional American businesses that produce bottom line savings and top line growth through sustainable business practices," Carmody continued. "This year’s Green Plus Sustainable Enterprises are setting an example for employers throughout the country of how sustainability is critical to competitiveness in the 21st century," Carmody concluded.
The Scrap Exchange is a creative reuse facility whose mission is to promote creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse. Since its inception in 1991, the Scrap Exchange has achieved the illusive win-win-win by diverting over 6,000 tons of waste from the landfill; providing affordable materials and reuse workshops to artists, crafters, nonprofits, the Durham Public School system, and local prisons; and providing donors with a tax deduction for the fair market value of items donated.
The Scrap Exchange actively coordinates and convenes reuse activities in the broader community through its leadership in the Triangle Reuse Alliance, a group working to expand the awareness and practice of reuse in the NC Triangle. Through the resale of reused materials and artwork, The Scrap Exchange covers 90% of its operating budget, creating triple bottom line value in the community almost entirely independent of donations and grants.
"Receiving the Green Plus Certification in our 20th year is a significant achievement; from vermicomposting to utilizing reusables as our office supplies, to promoting workplace sustainability, The Scrap Exchange endeavors to adhere to the standards set by the program, and looks forward to the next 20 years," said Ann Woodward, Scrap Exchange Executive Director.
For more information on the Green Plus Institute for Sustainable Development, including a list of other 2011 Green Plus Award winners, go to http://www.gogreenplus.org/.
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