Hi All,

 

This week is your last chance to donate coats to iEat Green’s Coat Drive for our neighbors in need. The coats will be picked up on Wednesday, December 22nd and donated to Brooklyn’s JCCA Repair the World, Child by Child organization. Please drop off any coats, sweaters, blankets and winter items to the iEat Green Homestead.

As in the past, we are also doing a Jewelry Drive! We will help you unload all of the jewelry hanging in your closet or jewelry box that you don’t wear. For the past few years, we have been collecting second hand, beautiful jewelry to offer as gifts, for a loved one to wrap up and give as a holiday gift to a teenage girl, young mom, girlfriend, wife, mother or mature women. This is a great way to clean out your jewelry box and know you’ve made someone happy! If you can put it in a gift box before dropping it off, that would be helpful!

If you have any questions, please email me at Bhavani@iEatGreen.com

 

Katy Franklin serves as Operations Director at ReFED, a national nonprofit working to end food loss and waste by advancing data-driven solutions to help businesses, funders, innovators, policymakers, and more address the problem. She supports ReFED’s organizational development and strategy and designs systems for effective program implementation and management. Previously, Katy managed operations at Sustainable America, where she gained a deep understanding of successful food waste reduction programs with consumers, food service providers, private firms, and at major events. Katy has authored industry and academic research on food waste and opportunities to solve this global challenge. Katy also helped develop Further with Food, a public-private partnership convened to address food loss and waste.

During the holiday season, while so many people are struggling with food insecurity, it’s good to know that others are working to reduce food waste.