Responsible Fundraising

Our picture promotion brought in some great pics of our fundraiser’s being creative and having fun with their fundraising! 

Our first two are some great posters from PAWS – OK, a pet adoption service out of Oklahoma. (click on through for more pics) 

Here is a student at Williams Township School showing off what they collected. 

A couple of guys test out some phones that were donated to Hamilton Holmes  Elementary. 

Marion County 4-H sent us a picture of a few of their members along with their great looking collection box.

These recyclers are from Northview High School and they know that the responsible way to fundraise is by collecting phones!

Thanks to everyone who sent in photos! Keep up the great work fundraisers! If you want to show of your fundraising efforts, send in your pics and we will post them.

Cnet’s green tech blog sent one of it’s writers on a mission to live a greener life for a year. It is probably safe to say that everyone on staff at an eco-blog makes efforts to be more green all the time, regardless of assignment, but what made this different is that he participated in the Energy Smackdown. This competition is a “Community Outreach Program to Reduce Carbon Emissions.” While participating, Martin LaMonica learned just how much running an extra fridge in the house can cost ($50 a month), what a blower door is, and just how much of a difference you can make just by using a caulk gun.

Read his account here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10221933-54.html?tag=rtcol;inTheNewsNow

Welcome Phoneraiser partners! Looking for a way to be more green or celebrate earth day today? Visit the Earth Day Network: http://earthday.net/search/node

Why use dangerous chemicals in your daily household cleaning when there are more natural and non-toxic options sitting in your fridge and pantry? Baking soda, borax, lemon juice, and others are all much less toxic and can be combined or used on their own to create powerful cleaners.

For example, use baking soda and white vinegar to clean stainless steel appliances and surfaces. Apply the baking soda with a damp cloth to clean the majority of the surface and white vinegar to clean spots.

More info and cleaning “recipes”:

http://www.thegreenguide.com/home-garden/cleaning/diy-cleaners

A paper and plastic recycler out of Michigan has recently partnered with Phoneraiser to offer cell phone recycling. In addition to their current services of paper, plastic, can, and metal pickup and recycling, they will now be offering recycling of used cellphones. All phones collected by Paper Dragon will in turn be recycled by Phoneraiser. If you are in the Wixom, Novi, Commerce Twp, Walled Lake, Farmington, Farmington Hills, Milford, Wolverine Lake, Livonia and surrounding areas and have cell phones you would like to drop off for recycling, contact Paper Dragon at 248-345-5244 or visit their website, http://www.paperdragonrecycling.com/Paper_Dragon_Recycling.php.