Over 2,000 recipient organizations in 20 countries have received surplus items through the work of ANEW. We are proud to serve the needs of the community by stewarding perfectly good surplus resources that would otherwise go to landfill. The following success stories highlight both the stewards and the recipients.
Surplus Stewardship® – The Causal Sequence ANEW partnered with Kitchen Angels Santa Fe, stewarding many items of corporate surplus furniture and carpet tiles to their Siler Road building. We’re especially gratified that we could furnish their entire board room because, as executive director Tony McCarty mentions in this video clip, for 17 years board meeting […]
Surplus Stewardship® – The Causal Sequence When a company engages ANEW to steward its surplus furniture, fixtures and equipment back into communities, the immediate effects are that (a) local organizations receive much-needed items which help them continue their good work in the community, and (b) the surplus is diverted from its most common destination, landfills. Once the surplus items […]
Our case studies illustrate the depth & breadth of our Surplus Stewardship® program, and the many ways corporate donors help strengthen their communities by working with ANEW.
ANEW works with Mazda North American Operations to steward their surplus furniture and equipment to community organizations.
ANEW helped HUB International in Bothell, WA transform over 30 tons of surplus furniture into valuable community assets.
Rose Tourje had wandered into the Earthships Visitor’s Center and met Alayne Meade. Alayne became as interested in ANEW as Rose became interested in the Earthships. Rose asked what was needed at Earthships and Alayne quickly told her they needed chairs for students to use in the Academy class. ANEW did what it does best: It repurposed two truckloads of chairs, furniture and office supplies and delivered them for use at Earthships.
We’re pleased to announce the completion of the LA to Santa Fe Project, a project that we’ve wanted to do for some time:
steward a truck full of furniture, fixtures & equipment to a Native American community in northern New Mexico.
When a company relocates, what happens to all their old furniture, fixtures and equipment? Working together, PIMCO and ANEW created a sustainable surplus stewardship solution – one that benefits the community, the environment & both organizations. The PIMCO/ANEW Project is complete, and the results are impressive. Watch the video…
We’re very happy with the results of our recently completed project with Kaiser Permanente Oakland. The recipient organizations listed below received thousands of surplus items from Kaiser through ANEW.
The Sustainability Without Borders community partnership represents a strong collaboration between WIJABA, ANEW and USGBC-LA. These three non-profit organizations joined their efforts and individual missions to maximize resources, achieving what no individual organization could: a project to build 15 libraries in the state Chihuahua, Mexico.