Give us your Surplus
We’ll do the right thing and give it an encore.
It's easy to get started. Contact us at info@anewfound.org or call 213.943.4400.
Strengthen the base of your business community with ANEW. Your office furniture, appliances, supplies and building materials will be matched and stewarded back to your communities, serving local schools, non-profits and public agencies. Doing good reaps benefits for your employees, for supporting community organizations and for the triple bottom line (People, Planet, Prosperity).
More and more companies are becoming aware of climate change and its effects. Leading companies are making environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria their priority by embracing responsible and transparent practices in their business model, translating to corporate brand and culture.
Equally, when ANEW started back in 2005, ESG was not yet evolved however, ANEW lead with CSR (corporate social responsibility), an ESG predecessor. ANEW lead the discussion around the issue of office surplus and its value to the community. ANEW went on to lead a practice regarding verifiable stewardship of these items for positive community impact vs. harmful landfill practices. Today companies of all sizes are learning about the importance of ESG and implementing its ethical practices.
When your surplus office items are assessed and stewarded by ANEW:
- you increase the positive impact on the community where your project is based, and you prioritize sustainable efforts to fight climate change; these two components avoid unnecessary waste to landfill;
- your good stewardship is rewarded additionally by receiving a detailed tax receipt for the donation of items to ANEW and a sustainability certificate highlighting the verifiable and transparent landfill diversion metrics, GHG emissions saved as certified by Climate Smart ® through reuse, resale, repurpose, and recycle;
- And, your company’s brand and culture can attract and retain top personnel for committing to social, environmental sustainable practices.
As an ANEW client you will receive:
- a Certificate of Social and Environmental Sustainability which includes the landfill diversion rate and other metrics of Surplus Stewardship®
- a Tax Receipt that details the community organizations that received the surplus items
- an Independent Audit to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards
- a Case Study document that summarizes the project outcome through stewardship, waste minimization, and community impact. Data tracked, documented and independently audited.
Greater good gets even better: By engaging ANEW and Surplus Stewardship®, your company will inspire change with having ESG level reporting. That’s doing what’s right.
Good Stewards
Chris Scheirer (Facilities Manager, PIMCO) talks about how ANEW helped them distribute their surplus to over 50 organizations.
Companies who practice Surplus Stewardship by donating their surplus items. ANEW keeps these items in circulation through reuse, by matching the items with non-profit organizations. (The following is a partial list)
- AARP
- Alliance Bernstein
- AECOM
- Aetna
- American Family Insurance
- Arcadis
- Buchalter
- Bryan Cave LLP
- Capital Group
- Capital One
- CBRE
- Charles Schwab
- Citizens Financial
- Colony Capital
- Deloitte
- Disney
- FDIC
- Fireside Bank
- First American Corporation
- Flagstar
- Fluor Corporation
- Gensler
- Gold Circle Films
- Google, Inc.
- HNI Global
- Hoag Hospital
- Hodel Briggs Winter LLP
- Home Depot
- Honeywell
- Howard Building Corp.
- Hub International
- Humanscale
- Huntington Bank
- HSBC – North America
- Humana
- Johnson Controls
- Kaiser Permanente
- Knoll Inc.
- Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Mazda North America
- Murphy Oil - Canada
- Neenan Archestruction
- Nestle
- Northrop Grumman
- Oracle, Inc.
- Paramount Pictures
- PIMCO
- Raytheon
- Red Bull
- RLI Insurance
- Scantron
- SC Johnson
- Shaw Communications - Canada
- So Cal Gas Company
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Stanley Black & Decker
- Teknion
- The Bank of China
- Toyota
- Turner Construction
- Verizon
- Warner Bros.