Goodwill NOT Landfill

Boston University Move – Out Event

Presented by Bill LaBelle

Director of Operations

Morgan Memorial Goodwill of Boston

Goodwill NOT Landfill history - BU

May 8, 2008 Goodwill Store opens at 965 Commonwealth Ave in Boston – Boston University (BU) Campus

April/May of 2009 BU and Big Brother Big Sister partner for a drive and collect 6.75 tons

November of 2009 Goodwill contacts BU about a drive partnership February of 2010 initial drive planning meeting occurs and Goodwill

becomes the sole drive partner for BU 2010 Goodwill NOT Landfill runs from April 26th to May 19th – 1,762 student

donors and 35.24 tons collected 2011 Goodwill NOT Landfill runs from April 28th to May 26th – 2,060 student

donors and 41.19 tons collected 2012 Goodwill NOT Landfill runs from April 30th to May 23rd – 3,058 student

donors and 61.18 tons collected

How to get started

Contact the Sustainability Department or Recycling Team directly Calling the main desk is only going to get you someone’s voicemail. Do your homework

and seek out an individual.

Set a planning meeting Talk about a “Landfill Diversion” and “Recycling” program. Stay away from using words like

“sales” and “store revenue.” Address the cost saving potential; example – you collect 40 tons of goods that would have normally been thrown out, if the university spends $85 per ton, you just saved them a minimum of $3,400.

Request to be inside the dorms…….then request again Convenience is the key to the success of Goodwill NOT Landfill. Place donation bins in the

common areas of dorms where the students have to walk by. Run a school age drive in a town where you already have a store or ADC. Keep things simple…..no extra effort, just donate.

BU Shelton Hall

BU Shelton Hall bin location

Communications

Get the word out with posters,

flyers, and emails. Set the drive dates Include all locations Note what you want for donation

and what you DO NOT

Start your drive!!!

Show the drive as an event and communicate its success

Develop and report key performance indicators daily (KPI) 1. Total pounds/tons collected 2. Bins Collected 3. Donation Pick-ups made 4. Compare to a benchmark when possible

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TOTAL PICKUPS TOTAL BINS TOTAL POUNDS TOTAL TONS4/28/2011 Bins 1.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 2.0 0.0 1.0 0.5 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 22 8 882 0.44

Pickups 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 2

4/30/2011 Bins 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 24 4.5 725 0.36Pickups 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1

5/2/2011 Bins 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 25 3 578 0.29Pickups 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1

5/4/2011 Bins 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 18 4 514 0.26Pickups 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1

5/7/2011 Bins 1.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.5 1.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.0 20 11 1635 0.82Pickups 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1

5/9/2011 Bins 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 2.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15 7 1491 0.75Pickups 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

5/11/2011 Bins 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.5 1.5 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 17 16 2806 1.40Pickups 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

5/13/2011 Bins 3.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 5.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 17 31 6383 3.19Pickups 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

5/14/2011 Bins 4.0 3.5 4.0 3.5 4.5 4.0 0.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 6.0 3.0 3.0 4.0 0.0 0.5 19 52 8691 4.35Pickups 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

5/15/2011 Bins 6.0 4.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 1.5 1.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 9 34.5 7398 3.70Pickups 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

5/16/2011 Bins 0.0 3.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 6.0 7.0 0.0 1.0 5.0 2.0 0.0 11 33 8409 4.20Pickups 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

5/17/2011 Bins 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 12 19 3911 1.96Pickups 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1

5/18/2011 Bins 1.5 1.5 1.5 0.0 2.0 1.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 15 13 2797 1.40Pickups 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

5/19/2011 Bins 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.5 2.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 15 10 2451 1.23Pickups 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

5/20/2011 Bins 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.0 1.0 4.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 18 8 2208 1.10Pickups 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

5/21/2011 Bins 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 2.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 15 16 3705 1.85Pickups 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

5/22/2011 Bins 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 17 7 1693 0.85Pickups 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 0

5/23/2011 Bins 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 21.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4 27 7132 3.57Pickups 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

5/24/2011 Bins 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 8 45 7792 3.90Pickups 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0

5/25/2011 Bins 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 22.0 14.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3 36 8101 4.05Pickups 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

5/26/2011 Bins 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 6 13 3068 1.53Pickups 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0

DRIVE PICKUPS DRIVE BINS DRIVE POUNDS DRIVE TONS

By Dorm Total Bins 19.5 17.0 21.0 37.0 77.5 48.5 31.5 21.5 17.5 22.0 23.0 13.0 25.5 17.0 5.0 1.5 310 398 82,370 41.19

By Dorm Total Pick-ups 18 17 18 19 25 21 24 19 19 21 21 20 20 22 16 10

NASPA AwardBU Honored for Recycling Program with Goodwill

By Rich Barlow From the Sierra Club to the Princeton Review, bouquets for BU’s environmental efforts are blossoming like spring crocuses. The latest is an award for a partnership with Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries that recycled 35 tons of clothing and housewares last May.

The Goodwill Not Landfill program won a third-place Excellence Award from NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education), an advocacy and development group of administrators from 1,400 campuses worldwide. The six-year-old awards, which recognize innovative services in various areas of student administration, drew 205 nominations this year, says NASPA spokeswoman Kaaryn Sanon.

University sustainability director Dennis Carlberg hopes to run the Goodwill collection program at the end of every semester. (A collection at the end of the fall semester garnered more than three tons of goods, he says.) A list of the items that will be accepted at the end of this semester is here.

“This is the first time that BU’s received an award from that organization,” Carlberg says. “It shows we’re being effective.” He’s not kidding: the 35 tons recycled during last May’s Move Out of students leaving campus for the summer was five times the amount recycled during the 2009 Move Out.

The Goodwill Not Landfill program is the most formal partnership that Goodwill has with a school, says the nonprofit’s spokesman James Harder, although there have been sporadic pickups on other campuses.

Goodwill, founded in 1895 in Boston by Methodist minister Edgar Helms (STH 1893, Hon.’40), provides job training and other services to those facing barriers to employment and runs a network of thrift stores. Under the Goodwill Not Landfill initiative, the University and Goodwill have placed collection bins in dorms and in the George Sherman Union and encourage students, faculty, and staff to deposit unwanted clothing and housewares there.

The award caps a string of honors for BU’s environmental efforts, since President Robert A. Brown launched the Boston University Sustainability Committee in 2008.

The Sierra Club last year put BU on its fourth annual list of “coolest schools” for sustainability initiatives. Last year’s Princeton Review Guide to 286 Green Colleges cited the University as well. And on the latest College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute and surveying 300 campuses, BU earned a B, its highest grade ever. The report card cited the University’s efforts to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and the fact that it has several staff, including Carlberg, devoted to sustainability measures.

BU has also been cited by the Massachusetts utilities group Mass Save for its energy-efficiency program and by the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange for its sustainability website.

This article first appeared in BU Today on February 17, 2011. Rich Barlow can be reached at barlowr@bu.edu.

?????Contact Information:

Bill LaBelle

Director of Operations

Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries, Inc.

blabelle@goodwillmass.org

617-541-1415