Habits of Waste

“A draft return was reviewed by the board chair, president, treasurer, and organization's accountant. Any comments will be discussed with outside CPA and any necessary changes will be made to the return prior to filing.”

“The starting point in determining the president's compensation was the compensation paid to the former executive director who left Crayon Collection in 2017. When such executive director was hired in early 2016, the board at that time based her salary on information they obtained on comparable organizations compensation of executive directors. The current president and board agreed to a lesser amount of compensation than the former executive director. Line 15(b) of Part VI is answered no as there were no other officers or key employees as defined in Form 990 instructions who were compensated.”

“The organization's governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available upon request.”

“The mission of Crayon Collection is to use the collection and reallocation of gently used crayons to inspire a commitment to environmental consciousness and infuse art education into underfunded schools. Our model is simple but powerful: we ask restaurants and hotels that offer free crayons to children when they dine, along with community-based groups, to collect gently used crayons and then we redistribute them to the most vulnerable schools across the U.S. Given that teachers spend an average of $900 out of pocket for basic supplies, our repurposed crayons meet a crucial need for both classroom supplies and art resources, and help redirect millions of crayons from landfills. Through the simple act of saving a crayon, we seek to create a new "eco-normal" consciousness that inspires families and communities everywhere to be stewards of the environment and nearby communities in need. We take the crayons one step further by challenging professional artists to offer us deep thinking project ideas using the crayon as the main tool. Next, our volunteer educators create lesson plans using these projects so that teachers in underserved classrooms nationwide can download and teach these art projects that have lined up with the STEM curriculum. We have further expanded our environmental efforts after spearheading the plastic straw and cutlery ban in the City of Malibu so that we can continue creating new systems within society to teach and advocate for environmental consciousness. Through our HoW program, we are able to teach inner city youth and work with more cities to ban single use plastics.”

“In 2018, the organization started the Habits of Waste (referred to as HoW) program. See Sch O disclsure under Part III, line 4(d) for more details.”