Sustainable Sandhills

“The tax return was made available for the board members to review prior to submission to the irs.”

“Written policy is reviewed annually”

“The public is able to view the tax return in the office of sustainable sandhills.”

“Sustainable sandhills collaborated with the nc department of health and human services (nc dhhs) on their building resilience against climate effects (brace) program. The organization worked with vulnerable populations in four counties to increase awareness about and mitigate the adverse public health impacts of heat and wildfire/prescribed burn smoke. Nc dhhs also selected sustainable sandhills to increase program capacity in the region and add flood mitigation to the scope of work. Sustainable sandhills is in the process of developing a curriculum and materials for a series of educational workshops on heat, smoke and flood mitigation that team members will present to communities in bladen, hoke, sampson and scotland counties in early 2022.”

“Sustainable sandhills partnered with the city of fayetteville on a litter abatement, illegal dumping prevention and recycling program. Throughout the course of the two-year contract with the city, a dedicated sustainable sandhills team member will coordinate projects and programs such as electronic waste dumping abatement and recycling, business recycling, composting, waste to energy initiatives and city-wide beautification events. She will also build relationships with city agencies by encouraging them to enforce waste regulations and with city residents by empowering them to adopt more sustainable waste management habits. Sustainable sandhills strived to improve water quality and sustain water accessibility in the sandhills. The organization continued its work with the north carolina department of environmental quality, the north carolina pfas testing network, north carolina state university and other stakeholders statewide to hold industries accountable for water pollution in the cape fear river and encourage more transparency about levels of fluorinated chemicals in agricultural and consumer products. Sustainable sandhills also worked to educate property owners with wells affected by genx about the impacts of fluorinated chemicals on public health, property values and natural resources. Sustainable sandhills continued its eighth year of the go green initiative in cumberland county schools. Over 80 schools are currently enrolled in the initiative focusing on energy resilience and efficiency, water conservation, recycling and waste management and sustainability education. Three cumberland county schools are sites for sustainable sandhills carbon banks, a project that improves air quality and serves as a living learning laboratory for students. The academy of green technology at douglas byrd high school used the carbon banks to apply their studies such as measuring carbon sequestration values of trees and using drones to create aerial maps of the carbon banks. The carbon banks sequestered a total of 15 tons of carbon from year 1 through year 3 of the project.”