The Earth Day 2015 Recycling
Celebration took place on Saturday, April 18th the only day of the week
that it wasn't raining, it was mostly cloudy and partial sunny but no
rain, it was fantastic. Held at Coolray Field, Home of the Gwinnett
Braves in Lawrenceville, the 3 hours recycling event was filled with
several activities including paper shredding, electronics, tires,
cartridges, old sneakers recycling, also playground for kids, and
hundred donors, city officials, partners and volunteers came out to
celebrate with us. Global Paint for Charity (GPC) was committed to
recycling only paint products in partnership with the Gwinnett County
Solid Waste. More than 2600 gallons of paint were properly disposed. The
majority of the donors, who participated in the Earth Day event, were
eager to learn that their unwanted paint donations will be re-used and
re-purposed to transform many communities and family homes around the
world, and enlightened about our tax deductible advantages for their
donation. Many felt that it is quite significant and rewarding to donate
their used paint to us and plan to let their neighbors know about our
programs. One donor took some brochures, and said he would make copies
and pass them around/ to every Home Depot and Sherwin Williams retail
stores in his area.
The Earth Day Celebration provided the
opportunity for the Global Paint team members to work closely with staff
from the Gwinnett County Solid Waste & Recovered Materials Division
and its major partners on raising awareness of recycling in ways to
help preserve our beautiful planet. Our thanks to the greater Gwinnett
County residences and businesses for their wonderful support of our
4th-ever Earth Day Celebration, the Solid Waste staffs and volunteers
for their irreplaceable partnership and continued support. A special
thank you goes out to all Gwinnett County officials who volunteered to
help load all donated containers of paint on our truck, also to all
Gwinnett County Police Officers who made sure the event ran smoothly,
safely and promptly.
Global paint for Charity was founded in
2010; today it is one of the largest paint recycling programs in the
nation and the first public non-profit providers of free paint and
hosting free paint projects in the world. Since 2011, we shipped as
many as 500-to-6000 gallons of paint at a time for projects in Kenya,
Ghana, Uganda ,Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala,
ElSalvador, Mexico, Dominican Republic, also in Atlanta, Miami, Orlando,
New Orleans and Chicago. Last year, Global paint for Charity volunteers
painted 459 family homes, 40 schools and orphanages. We assisted 45
local homeowners and homeless shelters in the Atlanta areas and recycled
over 130,000 gallons of paint from businesses and residences in the
U.S. These numbers add up to $10,790,989 saved in local government
budget to properly manage left over paint disposal each year, and
created a total monetary impact of $2, 400,000 in donation.
Additional information, including the mission and vision statements,
pictures, descriptions of the free paint programs, volunteer and
partnership opportunities, and overall of the organization’s impacts
around the world is available on the official website and social media
sites: www.globalpaits.org,
Facebook and Twitter, /globalpaints. Or contact us at
info@globalpaints.org. Please remember that when you choose to donate to
Global Paint for Charity, you are changing lives and covering the world
with colors, hope and happiness.
Please Take Action Today!
Here are our pictures, please enjoy! If you couldn’t make it to the Earth Day, you can still donate on our Website at http://globalpaints.org/donate.php or email us at info@globalpaints.org for any questions and supports.
Rony Delgarde
In our efforts to serve our donors and
recipients of our products, like so many great organizations in the
United States are committed to learning from their mistakes and
identifying the best way to provide more opportunities for their
communities, we were thrilled to participate at the 2015 Georgia
Logistics Summit this week. The 2015 Georgia Logistics Summit had
something for everyone involved in the movement of goods from here to
there and Rony Delgarde was able to attend the Summit to network and
learn how to work with large manufactures to understand policies, access
information, and logistics and supply chain operations, and build
collaboration that will help provide solutions to persistent concerns.
More than 25 of the top 37 supply chains Executives and 2,500
entrepreneur and large companies mostly from Georgia but also from
nearly every other state and a handful of foreign countries gathered at
the Georgia World Congress Center on both days Tuesday and Wednesday to
learn about issues including infrastructure initiatives, logistics and
supply chain, offshoring and emerging markets and multichannel
e-commerce.
Great group, great speakers including the
honorable Governor Nathan Deal who spoke on transportation, logistics
and supply chain initiatives and career development strategies to
respond to the high demand of career opportunities in both
transportation and logistics in the state. The host Jannine Miller
Director of Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics, Chris Carr
Commissioner of Georgia Department of Economic Development, the keynote
Speaker the Home Depot president and CEO Craig Menear, who discussed
his company’s fast-growing online business with a focus on creating a
seamless, interconnected retail experience” buy it online and pick it up
at the nearest retail store”, Tom Wrobleski and Irv Grossman, both
executive vice presidents with Atlanta-based Chainalytics, Chris Swartz,
director of global transportation and logistics services for AJC
International and many many more,… among the breakdown sessions Rony
Delgarde attended the evolution of e-commerce which is the revolution
into “omni-channel” and multi-channel” options for order processing and
devilry flexibilities like “order it online and go pick it up in the
store a few hours later or express shipping for Same Day Delivery
options or two days or even offering free shipping options…..”
“We always look for innovative ways to learn and grow so it was
rewarding to attend the 2015 Georgia Logistics Summit. It was one of the
greatest opportunities to meet all of the key executives of major
supply chain brands and business partners as well as the international
business people from around the world. And what was a great event to be
to meet, network and develop new partnerships. I had great 1on1 meetings
with some of the best and brightest people in the industry. As the
summits ends, I will get with my team to discuss how we can strengthen
our business strategies to meet our organization’s need. Financial
support will help us continue our work to send paint around the world
together; we will improve lives and solve community challenges, making a
more beautiful world and greener America.” Rony Delgarde,
Founder/President at Global Paint for Charity. He was delighted to
represent and here are our pictures. Please like and share!! For any
questions and supports, please email us at info@globalpaints.org or call
us toll free (855) 853-7772 www.globalpaints.org.
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