Cangles

Our new friends at Cangles make creative, and innovative jewelry from aluminum cans. This is a very creative way to use recyclable material directly for a new product. Feel free to stop by their website. They are very friendly and their site also contains good links to other earth-friendly organizations.

Cell phones, iPods, PDA's, laptops, and cameras

Recycling for Charities will be processing the donation of cell phones, iPods, PDA's, laptops, and cameras for us. This is another great way to help support our mission. Click here to contribute.

Website Changes

Some changes have been made to our main website. I decided to move the buttons to the left hand side, add a couple more pages, and take advantage of the extra space available for people who run higher resolutions on their displays.

This won't be the last update since there will be further changes once we have our new logo and color scheme, but this will do for now.

Created Wishlist on Amazon.com

There are a few items we need (other than a pickup truck) that will be used in our operations. We created a wishlist on Amazon.com to let people know what some of our needs are.

Registered with Volunteer Center of Greater Milwaukee

Recycling For Food, Inc. NOW LISTED WITH Volunteer Center of Greater
Milwaukee

Volunteer Center of Greater Milwaukee: This volunteering website
allows volunteers to quickly find the perfect volunteer
opportunity through a unique search engine. Use by volunteers
is free of charge. Please visit Volunteer Center of Greater Milwaukee today
at
http://volunteer.truist.com/vcgw to find out more.

First Batch of Recyclables Redeemed

Many thanks to a couple of generous donors, we were able to take in some scrap metal, copper wiring, an electric motor, an aluminum tv antenna, lead ventilation pipe, and some cast iron pipes. All of these items have been safely turned over to a recycler, and will not take up space in a land fill.

The Giving Effect

To help promote our mission, I registered and set up a "cause" with The Giving Effect's website. I like their site and their setup. It was easy and right to the point.

Business Cards

Currently, we are planning on changing our logo, but we still need to have some business cards. I was planning on waiting until we had our new logo finished, but it might take a bit longer. Jim Gottfried has graciously offered to work on this during his spare time.

In the mean time, I ordered some cards from Vistaprint with the American flag on them. They have an offer to generate 250 business cards for only the price of shipping and handling. For a small extra fee, I increased this to 500. The card was a bit limited because I could not put our tag line "Preserving Tomorrow, Feeding Today" on it without overlapping my name. I'm looking forward to how these cards will look.

Dealing with Grants

We have come across some unexpected issues recently. We have our 501(c)(3) status, but it has not been updated in the IRS's database yet. Some companies and foundations have automatic verfication checking built into their websites, and we can't get past this without the database being updated. This has proven to be a bit frustrating, but it is just one more challenge we need to deal with.