SCRAPS KC INC
3269 Roanoke Rd, Kansas City, MO 64081 scrapskc.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Caring for Kansas City's Environment, Education and Homeless through Creative Reuse.

Program Service Accomplishment One: 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 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 number 1 and number 2 above. Accomplishments of this program service during the year include the following activities: 1. The homeless provided 1,656 hours of volunteer service in exchange for meals and survival items such as clothing and toiletries. 2. ScrapsKC served 2,794 meals to homeless individuals. 3. ScrapsKC distributed 4,162 pounds of clothing and survival goods to the homeless. 4. 415 Community members volunteered to serve the homeless with ScrapsKC on the streets of Kansas City.

Program Service Accomplishment Two: 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 educational and creative materials and resources while reducing the waste stream 2. Providing onsite and online education about reducing, reusing, upcycling and recycling through creative reuse. 3. Created the first portable plastics upcycling center in Kansas City with the goal to lead dynamic education and awareness programs in our community about material upcycling through hands on 'leading by doing'. A plastics upcycling center enables us to significantly increase our volume of plastics intake which will later be upcycled into creative value added products for the community. Our initial leadership with this upcycling model will be expanded to include textiles and much more. Accomplishments of this program service during the year include the following activities: 1. Over 2,000 individuals donated materials and 222 donations were made by business/manufacturing, school and community partners to help divert materials from the landfill, 2. 69.2 tons of material were diverted, 3. 30,418 people were served through materials diversion and education programs: a. 15,701 visitors to the Creative Reuse Center b. 222 corporate and community materials donors; 2,041 individual donors c. 3,333 volunteers (8,271 hours) d. 5,945 people engaged in educational workshops, field trips, events and open studio for creative reuse. e. 306 teachers received free resources for their classrooms f. 2,363 homeless served in the streets of Kansas City g. Funding from a grant was used to purchase/build four portable plastics machines; shredder, extruder, injection and compression machines, along with molds for creative output. h. A position was created that is responsible for producing a wide array of upcycled products from plastic material intake, delivering education in the community through hands-on engagement with plastic shreds, recycled products, and engaging in the recycling process with participants (e.g. helping prepare the markers for shredding; taking out the cartridges, sorting, washing, etc.). i. 707 pounds of plastics materials were collected from the community. j. Finalized a partnership with Shatto Milk Dairy where they provide us with their returned plastic milk bottle lids for use with our upcycling programs. As a result of this production process, we have now been approached by a zero-waste store about wholesale opportunities. k. Collected PLA 3D prints from 8 area fab labs/maker spaces, and the students and makers are experimenting with how they might use sheets of recycled plastic in their products. l. 10 businesses and two schools are collecting K Cups. We are removing the foil tops and coffee grounds from the plastic, utilizing the plastic in our upcycling programs, and using the coffee grounds in our community garden.

Program Service Accomplishment Three: Inspire creativity in education by 1. Providing a creative environment to learn, appreciate, and enjoy the arts, recycling and 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 third year, involved collecting used school 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. 10,841 pounds of school supplies were collected from the community and subsequently distributed to 287 teachers with limited or no school supply budget at their schools. 2. The teacher resource center continued to operate. Full time certified teachers, school staff members, and homeschool parents can come in once a month and fill a bag with school, office and creative supplies for a nominal fee. This resource was being phased out and eliminated by February 2020. There were 142 participants in this program. 3. Educational opportunities provided to the community included a. 64 workshops for Girl Scout troops on providing for the homeless, recycling, and volunteering that engaged 571 scouts and 233 leaders. b. 115 onsite 45 provided for 2,416 children and adults. c. 13 offsite events that engaged 2,027 children and adults. d. 180 open studio events enjoyed by 698 children and adults. e. Hosted field trips for three elementary schools and 64 children participated in plastic upcycling educational programs. f. Shared Creative Reuse and plastics programming with 9 area Mid-Continent Public Library branches.

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