Priorities:

To resource the local community first, and then, with whatever is left over, help to resource the needs of the global community.

This picture above is just a small portion of the nearly 9000 lbs of usable supplies we collected this year!! I can’t wait to see how much positive change we can bring to our local and global community through these supplies!!

All the supplies are sorted based on function (i.e., clothes, binders, folders, pens, crayons, etc…) and on quality (i.e., new, good, and used) and are ready to be given away.

The LAST distribution days are happening Friday (July, 10th) and Saturday (July 11th) between 9am-2pm. All distribution is on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE basis – hope to see you there!!

Here is the Media alert sent out this week to the local media outlets:

greenLockers to distribute new and slightly used school supplies
and clothes to local charities for FREE

WHAT:
The new and slightly used school supplies, clothes and workbooks collected this year by greenLockers will be available for distribution to local charities. The collection of supplies from 17 local school’s “locker clean-out days” totals nearly 9,000 pounds and has already been sorted and organized based on quality and function. All supplies are FREE for those charitable organizations that come to the distribution days after filling out an application at the Web site www.greenlockers.org under the “wishlist application tab.” Supplies will ONLY be given to individuals representing charitable organizations. Distribution of the supplies will occur on a first come/first serve basis.

WHY:

There is tremendous need right now in our area on many levels and too often that may result in community organizations being under resourced. These distribution days provide an opportunity for local charities, who already are connected with the needs in our community, to get some basic materials for FREE.

WHEN:
Friday, July 10 and Saturday, July 11, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

WHERE:

Our warehouse located at 2600 Marina Drive in Elkhart, Indiana – just West of the intersection of CR6 and CR 15.

WHO:
greenLockers is a non-profit organization that was founded by Dr. Ted Bryant in the Spring of 2006. greenLockers resources students locally, nationally, and internationally through the distribution of school supplies. New and slightly-used school supplies (and clothes) are collected from area schools during their year-end locker clean-out days. In this way, greenLockers not only facilitates education, but it also enables students to help build community, gain courage, and break out of cycles of poverty that they may have been stuck in for generations.

Slogan:

Equipping students…moving the world forward