BRING Recycling granted $250,000 for new building.Byline: Scott Maben The Register-Guard A private family foundation has given BRING Recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. $250,000 to help the nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. build a new center in Glenwood. The money from the Gray Family Fund, part of the Oregon Community Foundation, is the largest gift in BRING's 33-year history of promoting recycling, conservation and sustainable living Sustainable living might be defined as a lifestyle that could, hypothetically, be sustained without exhausting any natural resources. The term can be applied to individuals or societies. . A challenge grant, it's intended to spur matching donations from people, businesses and small family foundations by the end of next May. "For a grassroots nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. like BRING, this is a huge contribution," Director Julie Daniel said Wednesday. "It's a very generous lead gift to make this badly needed project a reality." BRING wants to raise $1.8 million for its Planet Improvement Center, a new home for the organization's used materials sales yard, education program and offices. The three-acre site is on Franklin Boulevard between Eugene and Springfield. The Gray Family gift brings the campaign tally to just more than $700,000 - halfway toward the $1.36 million needed to complete the center's first phase, which will allow BRING to move from its cramped, flood-prone Seavey Loop Road compound to the Glenwood site late in 2005. The first phase also calls for a completed front-office building and education center, a new used-materials showroom, covered storage and a receiving-processing station. Before construction can start, basic site improvements such as parking, a stormwater handling system, sewer connections and utility relocation must be done. Other major donors so far include the Meyer Memorial Trust, Evergreen evergreen, term commonly used as synonymous with conifer and applied also to all those broad-leaved plants that bear green leaves throughout the year. Of the latter, most are plants of the tropics, subtropics, and other areas where the growing season is prolonged (e. Hill Education Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, the U.S. Forest Service and the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation. So far, 180 individuals and businesses have donated more than $200,000 to the project. BRING pioneered recycling in the Eugene-Springfield area and continues to encourage sustainability and resource conservation through the reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. , reduction and recycling of materials. BRING also received $68,000 from the Kresge Foundation Kresge Foundation (krĕs`kē), fund established (1924) by retail chain store owner Sebastian S. Kresge (1867–1966) as a broad-purpose philanthropic institution. recently to help pay planning costs for "green" or sustainable construction in the new center. CAPTION(S): BRING Recycling hopes to move to its proposed new building in Glenwood in late 2005. |
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