By Ronak Darji | Marketing Intern
For starters we were recognized once again for our multi-faceted Green operations model, first as a semi-finalist and honorable mention for Dr. Randall Pinkett’s Campus CEO Challenge thanks to an impromptu submission made by our Vice President and Co-Founder Nasir Uddin.
Nasir was also selected this month on behalf of em[POWER] as a winner for the2012 Henry P. Becton Volunteer Impact Awards through the generosity of Becton, Dickinson and Company. This award will grant em[POWER] $5,000 towards the goal of better implementing our sustainable model to improve the lives of millions affected by unacceptable conditions in landfill environments. We are happy to announce that Becton, Dickinson and Company plans to match donations from our fundraising initiatives! As if this was not enough to make our month, another generous organization will also be donating $10,000 to em[POWER] through Global Giving in the coming weeks. Nike has officially included us in their employee giving and volunteering program through Benevity.
We are honored and humbled for the recognition and resources that have been coming our way, yet most importantly we are further energized to build on this momentum towards future phases of our rigorous mission. Giving to em[POWER] will be even easier for donors, already having the option of GlobalGiving.com, and now with the added option GivingSomeThing.org.
Nasir attended the sixth-annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting in St. Louis from April 5th to the 7th as a Waste Management Mentor representing em[POWER]. Where he formed many great partnership and relationship as well having the chance to talk and meet with Chelsea Clinton, Matthew Perry and many more ambassadors of well-known NGOs around the world. There were over 70 countries represented at this conference.
On the other side of the world, our project continues to grow. We will be sending out an update to everyone very soon. Here are some images of the site as it progresses: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.643181059040681.1073741827.263865670305557&type=3
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