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Give + Go Green

Moving Out?

Donate Your Stuff!

Eco-Reps, in conjunction with Housing & Dining, Salvation Army, City Harvest, Rock and Wrap It Up!, Wearable Collections, Artist Society, and Per Scholas have organized a campaign to help make donating your stuff to local charities easy during Move-Out.
Simply bring your unwanted items to a drop-off location instead of throwing them in the trash.

We'll take care of the rest.

In the SPRING 2007 Students donated 700 lbs of food for City Harvest and filled 3 2/3 26-ft long Salvation Army trucks with donations. Way to go! This year we can do even better.

 

SPRING 2008

DROP-OFF LOCATIONS

12pm-4pm

May 14:College Walk
May 15: Wien Court/Street
May 16:114th and Broadway

ITEMS TO DONATE

  • New this year!! toiletries
  • New this year!! art supplies
  • all clothing in good condition (please bag),
  • New this year!! clothing in any condition will go to Wearable Collections
  • unopened canned and packaged food (no perishables) will go to City Harvest
  • kitchenware,
    • including refrigerators, toasters, etc.
  • appliances,
  • linens,
  • shoes,
  • accessories
  • small furniture will go to Salvation Army*
  • books
  • large furniture: Please fill out a work order ticket to have very large pieces of furniture (two-seater, couch, table, etc.) removed prior to May 6th. They will be brought to a local charity.
  • computers will be donated to Per Scholas, a local nonprofit organization that brings computers to low-income children and families and provides environmentally responsible recycling of end-of-life computer equipment.

*Salvation Army will provide tax-receipt slips at the drop-off locations for those who want them.

OTHER INFORMATION

If you miss the drop off days you can still turn your trash into someone else's treasure. Try Freecycle or Craigslist before heading to the dumpster.

If you have any questions, call the Hospitality Desk at 212.854.2779.

Thanks for helping Columbia go green.


Scenes from last year's Give + Go Green.



Thanks for helping Columbia go green.

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118 Hartley Hall - (212) 854-2775

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Hartley Lobby - (212) 854-2779

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