Crayon Collection

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HOW (HABITSOFWASTE.ORG)- THIS PROGRAM FOCUSES ON CHANGING HABITUAL BEHAVIORS OF THE MASSES THAT ARE NEGATIVELY IMPACTING THE ENVIRONMENT. IN MANY CASES, THAT MEANS CHANGING SYSTEMS LIKE WE DID WITH #CUTOUTCUTLERY WHICH CONVINCED THE FOUR MAJOR FOOD DELIVERY APPS GRUBHUB, UBEREATS, POSTMATES AND DOORDASH TO CHANGE THEIR DEFAULT SETTING TO PROVIDE PLASTIC CUTLERY ONLY UPON REQUEST. POSTMATES REPORTED THAT IN UNDER A YEAR THEY WERE ABLE TO SAVE 122 MILLION PACKS OF CUTLERY, WHICH EQUATES TO A $3.2MM SAVINGS FOR RESTAURANTS, FROM ENTERING THE WASTE STREAM. THIS WAS CRITICAL INFORMATION TO HELP PASS LEGISLATION IN THE STATES OF WASHINGTON AND CALIFORNIA MAKING SINGLE-USE FOOD SERVICE ITEMS AVAILABLE BY REQUEST ONLY. IN ADDITION, OVER 25 CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE SIGNED ON TO MAKE (CON SCH O) CUTLERY BY REQUEST ONLY ORDINANCES. WE CREATE EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGNS INFORMING THE PUBLIC OF THE CHALLENGES, WITH SIMPLE ACHIEVABLE ACTIONS THAT THEY CAN TAKE TO MAKE AN IMPACT. OUR FOCUS IS ON SOLUTIONS AND EMPOWERING THE INDIVIDUAL TO TAKE ACTION. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ALL OR NOTHING, SMALL CHANGES CAN MAKE A BIG IMPACT WHEN DONE COLLECTIVELY IN SOCIETY. HOW CREATES CHANGES IN SOCIETY INCREASING ECO-CONSCIOUSNESS WITH A CALL TO ACTION ON PLASTIC STRAWS, CUTLERY, BAGS, PALM OIL, FOOD WASTE, ENERGY, MEDIA, WATER, AND AIR POLLUTION AND PROMOTING A PLANT-BASED DIET. HOW SHINES LIGHT ON HABITUAL BEHAVIORS OF WASTE AND OFFERS WAYS INDIVIDUALS CAN TAKE ACTION TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE NEEDED FOR THE PLANET TO SURVIVE. IN 2021 WE INTRODUCED OUR LATEST CAMPAIGNS SHIP NAKED TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF UNNECESSARY EXCESS PACKAGING IS SHIPPED AND LIGHTS, CAMERA, PLASTIC? (LCP) TO REMOVE SINGLE-USE PLASTIC FROM THE SCREEN (TV AND FILM) AND REPLACE WITH REUSABLES TO ESTABLISH A NEW NORM.

ARTS IN EDUCATION PROGRAM- CRAYON COLLECTION SEEKS TO RE-INFUSE ART EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS AROUND THE NATION. WE DO THIS BY INVESTING SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES IN OUR ARTS IN EDUCATION PROGRAM, WHICH IS A TWO-FOLD PROGRAM SUPPORTING THE ARTIST INSPIRED EDUCATION SERIES AND THE ARTIST ROTATION INITIATIVE. OUR ARTS IN EDUCATION PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO SUPPLEMENT THE FREE CRAYONS WE DONATE TO HEAD START CENTERS, TITLE 1 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND ENSURE ACCESS TO FREE, STANDARDS-BASED, BEST IN CLASS ART EDUCATION RESOURCES FOR OUR CLASSROOM PARTNERS. WORKING TOGETHER WITH TEACHERS WE NOW HAVE 16 ARTIST INSPIRED PROJECTS ON OUR ROSTER AND EACH PROJECT MEETS OR EXCEEDS COMMON CORE STANDARDS AS WELL AS SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING. THIS YEAR WE EXPANDED OUR REACH BY PARTNERING (CON SCH O) WITH THE GETTY TO BRING THE ART EDUCATION TO OVER 30,000 KIDS. WE ADDED TWO ADDITIONAL ARTISTS TO OUR ROSTER AND UPDATED CURRICULUM TO INCLUDE THE BENEFITS OF SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TO SUPPORT THE CHILDREN DURING THIS VERY DIFFICULT AND STRENUOUS TIME. THE ARTIST INSPIRED EDUCATION SERIES ENGAGES LOCAL ARTISTS IN DEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES THAT ARE UNIQUELY DESIGNED FOR CHILDREN WORKING WITH OUR REALLOCATED CRAYONS, WHILE COMPLYING WITH NATIONAL AND STATE STANDARDS FOR THE VISUAL ARTS. THESE RESOURCES TAKE CRAYONS TO ANOTHER LEVEL BEYOND SIMPLE COLORING; IN FACT, OUR ARTISTS DESIGN AND DEVELOP INTERESTING PROJECTS UTILIZING THESE GENTLY USED CRAYONS TO SUPPORT LEARNING, CREATIVE EXPRESSION, AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. THIS ARTISTIC MENTORING PROCESS ADDS A DEEPER LEVEL TO ART EDUCATION USING A VALUABLE AND RELATABLE RESOURCE, CRAYONS, THAT WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE BEEN THROWN AWAY. WE HAVE A FORMAL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE REGION 9 HEAD START ASSOCIATION, WHICH HAS GIVEN US ACCESS TO THEIR CLASSROOMS SO THAT WE COULD TEACH OUR PROGRAM TO THEIR STUDENTS AS WELL AS THEIR TEACHERS SUPPORTING US BY APPLYING NEW ARTIST PROJECT IDEAS TO EARLY LEARNING HEAD START STANDARDS. THE ARTIST ROTATION INITIATIVE ENGAGES HIGHLY QUALIFIED U.S. BASED ARTISTS AND CULTURAL AMBASSADORS FROM A VARIETY OF BACKGROUNDS TO VISIT OUR CLASSROOMS AND OFFER CHILDREN ACCESS TO A DIVERSE RANGE OF ART EXPRESSION. PRIOR TO COVID-19, OUR VOLUNTEER ARTISTS ROTATE CLASSROOMS EVERY FEW MONTHS. THIS INITIATIVE ALLOWS FOR ARTISTS TO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME IN A MEANINGFUL AND MEASURABLE WAY THAT CONNECTS STUDENTS WITH PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS WHERE THEY WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE NO ART EDUCATION DUE TO LACK OF PUBLIC FUNDING.

CRAYON RECYCLING PROGRAM - THE CRAYON RECYCLING PROGRAM PROVIDES A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTION TO RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS THAT OFFER FREE CRAYONS TO CHILDREN WHEN THEY DINE. INSTEAD OF THROWING THESE CRAYONS AWAY AFTER EACH MEAL, OFTEN AFTER A SINGLE USE, WE ESTABLISH A COLLECTION PROCESS FOR EACH LOCATION AND ENSURE THESE GENTLY USED CRAYONS ARE DONATED TO A LOCAL SCHOOL IN NEED OF SUPPLIES. WE PAIR THE SCHOOLS WITH THE RESTAURANTS. UNDER THIS MODEL, CRAYON COLLECTION ACTS AS THE LIAISON BETWEEN IMPOVERISHED SCHOOLS AND A LOCAL RESTAURANT COLLECTION PARTNER; WE TRAIN RESTAURANTS, HOTELS, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ON HOW TO COLLECT GENTLY USED CRAYONS. WE THEN IDENTIFY AND PARTNER WITH SCHOOLS IN NEED. FROM THERE, WE CONNECT RESTAURANTS AND BUSINESSES TO THEIR LOCAL IN-NEED SCHOOLS. WE THEN MONITOR (CON SCH O) THE PROCESS AND ENSURE THE GENTLY USED CRAYONS ARE APPROPRIATELY REALLOCATED ON A MONTHLY BASIS. THE PROCESS IS HIGHLY LOCALIZED AND YET SUPPORTED NATIONALLY BY CRAYON COLLECTION IN ORDER TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OUR COLLECTION PARTNERS AND THE SCHOOLS WE PAIR THEM WITH, WHICH ARE HEAD START CENTERS & TITLE 1 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. TO DATE OUR IMPACT HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT: OVER 20 MILLION CRAYONS WERE REDIRECTED FROM LANDFILL AND DONATED TO SCHOOL PARTNERS SINCE OUR INCEPTION, AND WE HAVE SERVED OVER 2 MILLION CHILDREN AS CRAYON RECIPIENTS. AGAIN IN 2021, WITH THE PANDEMIC OUR MODEL HAD TO SHIFT. AS THE YEAR CONTINUED RESTAURANTS THAT HAD COLLECTED CRAYONS GAVE THEM TO US TO DISTRIBUTE TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVED CHILDREN AS SCHOOLS HAD CLOSED. ADDITIONALLY, GROUPS AROUND THE COUNTRY STARTED CRAYON DRIVES AND WE WERE ABLE TO DONATE THOSE CRAYONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR CITY TO CITY AS GUIDELINES EVOLVED AND SCHOOL WAS IN SESSION IN MOST CITIES. SINCE 2009 (FOUNDER SHEILA MOROVATI OPERATED THE PROGRAM ON HER OWN BEFORE CRAYON COLLECTION WAS OFFICIALLY FORMED AS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION IN 2013), WE HAVE ACHIEVED THE FOLLOWING:.1) REDIRECTED OVER 22 MILLION CRAYONS FROM LANDFILL AND DONATED TO SCHOOL PARTNERS SINCE OUR INCEPTION.2) SERVED OVER 2 MILLION CHILDREN AS CRAYON RECIPIENTS. 3) OVER 2,500 TITLE 1 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CONNECTED WITH A RESTAURANT COLLECTION SITE NATIONWIDE.4) OVER 11,000 HEAD START CENTERS HAVE RECEIVED CRAYONS. DUE TO THE PANDEMIC THE PROGRAM HALTED TEMPORARILY AS REMOTE LEARNING CONTINUED AND THERE WAS A DELAY IN ORGANIZATIONS ACCEPTED GENTLY USED MATERIALS, HOWEVER WE WERE STILL ABLE TO FORMALLY ESTABLISH A PARTNERSHIP WITH REGION 9 HEAD START, A DISTRICT THAT SERVES 4 STATES AND SUPPORT OVER 200 AGENCIES AND 130,000 CHILDREN IN 2020 AND IN 2021 WE STARTED DISCUSSIONS WITH THE MIDWEST REGION FOR EXTENSION IN 2022. 5.) SET A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD BY DONATING 1,009,500 CRAYONS TO 700 LAUSD TEACHERS IN AN EFFORT TO RAISE AWARENESS.

COLOR KINDNESS PROGRAM- WHILE OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH NATIONAL RESTAURANT AND HOTEL CHAINS OFFER TREMENDOUS IMPACT AND SCALE, ALLOWING US TO SAVE MILLIONS OF CRAYONS FROM LANDFILLS EACH YEAR, WE ALSO BELIEVE IN A GRASS-ROOTS COLLECTION MODEL THAT ENGAGES FAMILIES, CHILDREN, AND COMMUNITIES IN ENVIRONMENTALISM AS WELL AS PHILANTHROPY AND EMPATHY. THE ELEGANCE OF THE CRAYON COLLECTION MODEL LIES IN ITS SIMPLICITY AS ANYONE CAN BEGIN A COLLECTION THROUGH THEIR LOCAL SCHOOL, LIBRARY, NEIGHBORHOOD GIRL SCOUTS/BOY SCOUTS CLUB, OR FAITH COMMUNITY AND ENSURE THESE LIGHTLY LOVED CRAYONS REACH THE HANDS OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS IN THEIR LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. IN 2021 WE CONTINUED THE PROCESS OF COLLECTING CRAYONS AND HAD TREMENDOUS SUPPORT FROM CHURCHES, YOUTH GROUPS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS LOOKING TO SUPPORT OTHERS (CON SCH O) DURING THE PANDEMIC. WE HAD CORPORATIONS COLLECT CRAYONS TO GET INVOLVED IN GETTING BACK AND DISTRIBUTING TO LOCAL SCHOOLS IN NEED. WE SET A WORLD RECORD WITH OUR PARTNERS AT GISH TO DELIVER NOTES OF KINDNESS TO FRONTLINE HEROES AS PART OF OUR COLOR KINDNESS PROGRAM. OVER 5,000 NOTES OF KINDNESS WERE WRITTEN WITH RECYCLED CRAYONS AND DOCUMENTED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIAL. INFORMATION BELOW PERTAINS TO ALL PROGRAMS DESCRIBED IN PART III, LINES 4(A)-(C) AS WELL AS THE ABOVE PROGRAM DESCRIBED IN SCHEDULE OPROGRAMMATIC STRUCTURESIN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE GRASS-ROOTS CRAYON RECYCLING PROGRAMS, PARTICULARLY AMONG FAMILIES AND CHILDREN, WE INVEST SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES IN SOCIAL AND DIGITAL MEDIA STRATEGY AND OUTREACH, IN ORDER TO FACILITATE VIRAL PUBLICITY AMONGST OUR SUPPORTERS. SOME OF OUR NOTABLE CAMPAIGNS HAVE INCLUDED NATIONAL CRAYON DAY, NATIONAL CRAYON COLLECTION MONTH (EVERY AUGUST), A NATIONAL BACK-TO-SCHOOL CAMPAIGN, OUR NATIONAL ART EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT IS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE FOR FREE. PLUS, UNDER THE HOW PROGRAM WE HAVE THE NOW WIDELY RECOGNIZED #CUTOUTCUTLERY CAMPAIGN THAT CONVINCED MAJOR FOOD DELIVERY APPS TO CHANGE THEIR DEFAULT SETTING TO PROVIDE PLASTIC CUTLERY ONLY UPON REQUEST. IN 2021 WE WERE ABLE TO INCREASE OUR HOW PROGRAMS WITH 8 MEALS, SHIP NAKED, AND LCP. OUR COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS ARE FOCUSED ON INSPIRING COMMUNITIES EVERYWHERE TO DO THEIR PART AN EFFORT TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUPPORT A LOCAL SCHOOL IN NEED, BY PROVIDING CRAYON AND ART EDUCATION RESOURCES PLUS LESSONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP. AMBASSADOR VOLUNTEERS OUR AMBASSADOR VOLUNTEER RANKS BRING TOGETHER VOLUNTEERS, PARTNERS, AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT CRAYON COLLECTION PROGRAMMING NATIONWIDE. THE AMBASSADORS WERE CULTIVATED OUT OF A DESIRE TO CREATE A NETWORK OF PASSIONATE INDIVIDUALS THAT WILL SERVE AS A PRESENCE FOR CRAYON COLLECTION IN THEIR COMMUNITY, TASKED WITH SUPPORTING OUR MISSION BY SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT OUR WORK, HELPING TO EXPAND CRAYON COLLECTION PROGRAMS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. MANY COMPANIES HAVE REACHED OUT TO US THROUGHOUT 2021 TO FIND OPPORTUNITIES TO BRING THEIR EMPLOYEES TOGETHER TO VOLUNTEER FOR OUR CAUSE. MANY PACKED CRAYONS AND WROTE NOTES OF KINDNESS TO BOTH CHILDREN IN NEED OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES AS WELL AS FRONTLINE HEROES IN HOSPITALS.