Scraps KC

Reduce the cycle of poverty locally through education, creativity and leadership by:1. Developing skills and education that enable employment and service in the surrounding communities, and also build the confidence of community members to serve joyfully.2. Creating jobs where possible, but always empowering the disadvantaged and homeless by instilling a sense of purpose and support of community through service.3. Providing food, clothing, and survival and dignity items where possible in order to encourage engagement in #1 and #2 above.accomplishments of this program service during the year include the following activities: 1. The homeless provided 1,191 hours of volunteer service in exchange for meals and survival items such as clothing and toiletries.2. Scrapskc served 2,436 meals to homeless individuals.3. Scrapskc distributed 3,263 pounds of clothing and survival goods to the homeless. 4. 219 community members volunteered to serve the homeless with scrapskc on the streets of Kansas city.

Inspire creativity in education by: 1. Providing a creative environment to learn, appreciate, and enjoy the arts, recycling, sustainability and service.2. Engaging youth in outreach in the community with the goal to instill a foundation in service that carries forward into their future.3. Supporting our local educators in Kansas city by providing materials and resources free or at significantly reduced prices to help them offset their own personal cost of their profession. Accomplishments of this program service during the year include the following activities:1. The school supply redistribution program, in its seventh year, involved collecting used schools supplies at the end of the school year; cleaning, testing and sorting these supplies; and then redistributing them to teachers and schools in areas with greater needs. In 2023, scrapskc launched this program as a year-round program for the first time. 55,853 lbs. Of school supplies were collected from the community during 2023, and 13,895 pounds were subsequently distributed to 369 teachers with limited or no school supply budget at their schools. 2. Educational opportunities provided to the community included:a. 18 workshops for girl scout troops on providing for the homeless, recycling and volunteering that engaged 461 scouts and scout leadersb. 83 onsite workshops provided for 985 children and adults

Promoting environmental stewardship through waste reduction and providing onsite and online education for creative reuse by:1. Enabling greater convenience and accessibility to both obtain and dispose of materials and resources all to the benefit of reducing the waste stream.2. Providing onsite and online education about reducing, reusing, upcycling and recycling through creative reuse.accomplishments of this program service during the year include the following activities:1. Over 3,900 individuals donated materials and 199 donations were made by business/manufacturing, school and community partners to help divert materials from the landfill.2. Over 85 tons of materials were diverted from the landfill.3. 39,948 people were served through materials diversion and educational programs:a. 26,293 visitors to the creative reuse centerb. 199 corporate and community materials donors; 3,940 individual donorsc. 4,897 volunteers (11,980 hours)d. 1,446 people engaged in educational workshops, field trips, events and open studio for creative reusee. 397 teachers received free resources for their classroomsf. 2,119 homeless served in the streets of Kansas city