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EVERY YEAR

Businesses generate

300,000 tons of waste

90% is USABLE

And did you know:

99.5% of teachers spend out of their own pocket for supplies for their classrooms and students

Personal expenditures by TEACHERS account for half of the $3.2 billion spent for classroom supplies & materials

Unfunded mandates straining school budgets

GROWING NUMBERS

OF CHILDREN ARE

ON FREE &

REDUCED LUNCH

IF THEY CAN’T

AFFORD LUNCH,

THEY CAN‘T

AFFORD:

A PENCIL…..

A CRAYON…..

A BOOK…..

PAPER…..

Now there is a solution…

THE GREEN SOLUTION

Not cost effective to

find a secondary user

UNTIL NOW!

One call and you can

RECYCLE SURPLUS

AND

HELP SCHOOLS

in your community COMPANIES TO CLASSROOMS

A store for teachers

Even Oprah thought it was a good idea!

Founder

Cary Weatherby

featured in

Oprah Magazine

as having

An Idea

That

Could

Change

The

World!

COMPANIES TO CLASSROOMS

transforms corporate waste

into:

A hands-on

Math

exercise

A lesson for an ESL student

Self-esteem

and

confidence

when having

the right

school

supplies

in Science

Class

“I love Companies to Classrooms--I use it

every year, for those things we really

need but have to purchase on our own

because our school can’t provide them.

They are a big help. Our entire team

office is furnished with chairs and other

furniture from C2C”

~ Tim—7th Grade Teacher

Oak Grove Middle School

Letters from Teachers:

Students achieving higher scores on spelling tests

to receive a light-up pen

Front-office staff shocked by only spending $2.36

on supplies for 1 year

Elastic bands create a Phy Ed lesson that not

only provides students with a Chinese jump

rope that they can take home but incorporates

lessons in culture, math and learning across

several grade levels

Since March 2006

$4,000,000

SUCCESSES

$4,000,000 worth of supplies & equipment recycled into local schools including:

22,073 calculators

168,287 3-ring binders

225,234 pencils

58,775 books

155,414 pens

PLUS backpacks, calendars, paper, stickers, art supplies, frames, markers, pens, rulers, flashcards, white boards, paper clips, staplers, pencil sharpners, masking tape, file folders, index tabs, sports equipment, t-shirts, boxes, tables, 2-pocket folders, erasers, tape recorders, portfolios, overhead projectors, envelopes, file cabinets, notepads, note cards, lamps, spiral notebooks, cameras, microscopes, egg cartons, cushions, transparencies, colored pencils, games, post-it notes, scissors, fans, filler paper, tape dispensers, binding machines, easels, wrapping paper, white-out, rubber bands, banks, keychains, nametags, kleenex, lanyards, magazines, play money, hand sanitizer, posters, poster board, binder clips, stamps, ink pads, glitter, hats, costumes, maps, room decorations, mailing labels, popsicle sticks, glue sticks, page protectors, hanging file folders, baskets, CDs, step stools, business card holders, pocket charts, bookshelves, chalk, pencil cups, tracing paper, ribbon...

OTHER SOURCES OF SUPPLIES

Retired teachers wanting to reuse lessons

collected over years of teaching

Local citizens realizing the value of

recycling/reuse and making sure all

children can learn

New Supply Drives by business partners

End of school Recycling

From an article in the Baltimore Sun in 2015—

person observes in a dumpster behind a school

Over 50 like-new books

Over twenty CD’s: Disney, and National Geographic, etc.

Storage bins and crates

Educational materials

Dozens of pens, pencils, crayons, and markers (several in their

original boxes)

Reams of paper (many unopened)

Notebooks and folders

Over twenty educational board games (with all of the pieces)

Musical instruments (a guitar in a new case)

Flash cards

A working laminator ($315 retail)

Crayola Experience MOA

Need to plan ahead and make sure all

personnel are informed on procedures

Label sorting bins

Set a schedule for pick-up

THE FACTS

Corporate waste of 300,000 tons annually—90% usable

Teachers spend $750 or more yearly out of their own pocket for student & classrooms supplies

Unfunded mandates straining school budgets

Increasing numbers of students on free-and-reduced lunch—Bloomington, over 30% and Richfield, nearly 50% of all public school students

Moved to 8301 Grand Ave. S.

How do we pay store operating

expenses if we don’t sell anything?

Education Foundation of

Bloomington

Richfield Bloomington

Credit Union

The Donaldson Foundation

Xcel Energy

Towers Watson Worldwide

Thomson Reuters

American Legion Post 550

AmVets

Thrivent Financial

for Lutherans

Josten’s

Richfield Education

Foundation

SPONSORS & GRANTS

Grainger

Toro Company

Richard M Schulz

Family Foundation

Otto Bremer

Foundation

WIN-WIN

for our Community

Free & reduced lunch students are equipped with school supplies at no cost to the teacher or the school

Additional supplies are available to our schools without increasing taxes or education funding

Local businesses have an easy way to turn their waste into supplies for students and receive tax benefits

Schools receive valuable community support from local businesses

More items are being recycled and kept out of

our landfills

Companies to

Classrooms

Benefitting YOUR community by turning corporate waste into learning

Join us in this mission