2. Over 15,000 local students had an opportunity to give back to their community without having to leave school or buy anything new!
3. Meijer came on in a big way by awarding greenLockers a grant for $10,000 worth of school supplies. We will be adding those to our supplies this year!
4. My 3 year search for the perfect containers finally came to an end – thanks to the W.C. Redmon corporation.
5. Many people stepped up, and we were able to raise $8,000 in a little over 2 weeks in order to manufature 1,000 of these new containers for this next year.
6. We finished our new – fully High Definition – video on how greenLockers works
7. We moved into Marshall County in a big way thanks to the Leadership of Marshall County team!
8. Over 40 charities had the opportunity to get greenLockers supplies this year!
Wow – what a year it was last year, and I know I have a post just a few down giving some of the details of the year, but I thought a video recap would be nice. It all started with the county-wide effort to get as many old recycling bins as possible. These 1300 containers were all washed by hand by the Granger Student Ministries missions group from Granger Community Church - THANK YOU!!! We put decals on all of them, and then it was off to the 17 schools (including one in New York) to collect the materials. Over 9000lbs of sorted supplies were gathered and organized for distribution at our warehouse. We partnered with over 30 local non-profit agencies to distribute the supplies to students in need, with some remaining supplies going to India, Mexico, and Columbia. NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE HELP OF MANY VOLUNTEERS, and if you are one of the many that helped out with greenLockers in 2009 – please accept my deepest gratitude for your efforts. Enjoy the video and check out the “get involved link” to find out how you can be a part of the project this year!!
We are now available to be in schools from Elementary schools through college – check out How It Works section on the bottom of the home pageand please email meif you would like your school to be a part of the project – looking forward to partnering with you in 2010.
