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Binners' Project

Binners’ Project (BP) fosters social and economic inclusion, builds community resilience and stronger networks, and engages on sustainability issues. We operate social enterprise programs that provide fee-for-service waste sorting and education to ensure proper diversion of discarded items. Through our programs, we empower binners as part of the circular economy, building a community from the bottom up. Our initiatives aim to: : • Build community capacity• Raise awareness of binners’ role in the community• Create employment programs.Binners’ Project works with binners, some of the most marginalized people in our community, many of whose livelihoods stem from refunds received from used containers collected from bins. An essential priority for BP is to ensure the voices and perspectives of the population we serve remain at the core of our work even as our work continues to grow. Binners’ Project has been in operation since 2014 and has been on an incredible journey. We are at a key moment of growth and evolution, and we are proud to have launched into a Strategic Planning process to help steward the next phase of our work. This Strategic Plan has been designed to help steer our direction, explore opportunities to scale our operations, and ensure our values and community-focus remain central throughout. In order to develop this plan, we began by engaging directly with binners to ensure their voice was central in the design of our next phase. We explored community needs and visions, and dug into tensions that can arise with growth. We also explored market needs, and how we could help serve clients working to reduce waste. Lastly, we engaged with the BP steering committee and staff. Through these collective efforts we developed priorities for the next 3 years of operations: 1. Strengthen the community 2. Build capacity in the binner workforce 3. Strengthen Binners’ Project operational foundation 4. Build a sustainable social enterprise model 5. Strengthen the voice of Binners’ Project regionally and nationally.

Report

eng

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0416614

Non UBC

Unreviewed

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