January 1, 2020
Happy New Year! We are happy to report that our 24 days of fundraising, which ended Christmas Eve, was a big success! We raised about $11,180 at our table at City Market, and another $7,500 in private donations. With an expected grant of $5,000 in June, and small private donations throughout the year, we feel confident we can answer dire needs for all of 2020 through our Emergency Needs Fund. We are very moved by the generous spirit of caring, alive and well in this community.
Moab Solutions received an honor from Moab Valley Multicultural Center. We were named their nonprofit partner of the year. We have been working together closely this past year, trying to get folks into housing, or keep them in housing they have now.
Working together works, as we can assess, refer, and assist more people together than we can alone. We would love to see ZERO homelessness in Moab, and will continue to work as hard as we can to make that happen.
Happy New Year! We are happy to report that our 24 days of fundraising, which ended Christmas Eve, was a big success! We raised about $11,180 at our table at City Market, and another $7,500 in private donations. With an expected grant of $5,000 in June, and small private donations throughout the year, we feel confident we can answer dire needs for all of 2020 through our Emergency Needs Fund. We are very moved by the generous spirit of caring, alive and well in this community.
Moab Solutions received an honor from Moab Valley Multicultural Center. We were named their nonprofit partner of the year. We have been working together closely this past year, trying to get folks into housing, or keep them in housing they have now.
Working together works, as we can assess, refer, and assist more people together than we can alone. We would love to see ZERO homelessness in Moab, and will continue to work as hard as we can to make that happen.
Good WabiSabi news! Moab Solutions was picked, once again, to be one of WabiSabi's nonprofit partners for 2020. That means that when you shop at WabiSabi, and vote for Moab Solutions, we will get a donation. The thrift has been giving out the awards every month, which helps with all the things a nonprofit needs to do to get through the year. Thank you WabiSabi, a great store in a great community of nonprofits.
We are hoping for good things in 2020, especially with ways we can help heal the environment. Recycling responsibly is one great way to help. We like to say that "recycling is a gift we give the earth that comes back to us". Recycling at our local center, where all items are processed (by type of material) in Moab, and then shipped mainly to Salt Lake City, where a good deal of it stays in the state, is a much better option than single stream recycling, which is shipped to Denver, where a good portion is landfilled by the processor up there. They own a landfill, and a recycling sorting center. They get paid by the waste hauler for the recycling collected here in Moab, so it matters not to them that this messy method of recycling can cause as much as 50% to be landfilled.
We will be promoting an "Opt Out" of single stream campaign soon, as folks in Moab can opt out of the service twice a year, February being the next opportunity. We believe in recycling locally to support many local jobs, a much lower carbon footprint, and a better quality of recyclable materials being reused by the mills who buy the materials from our center to make new materials.
We will be promoting an "Opt Out" of single stream campaign soon, as folks in Moab can opt out of the service twice a year, February being the next opportunity. We believe in recycling locally to support many local jobs, a much lower carbon footprint, and a better quality of recyclable materials being reused by the mills who buy the materials from our center to make new materials.