DiscarDisco: Rags to Riches! Pair of Tickets Giveaway Contest Rules

Enter to win a pair of General Admission tickets to DiscarDisco, The WasteShed’s annual Trash Fashion Show Fundraiser and Party to take place on Saturday April 15th at The Chicago Athletic Association. To learn more about the show please click here.

How to Enter

Enter the Giveaway by making a donation or by submitting your first and last name, home address, email address and phone number on this form. Entries may be made by making a gift of any amount at donorbox.org/discardisco-2023 or clicking here to enter drawing without making a gift. No purchase or pledge necessary.

Eligibility

Anyone 18 years of age or older can enter the Giveaway except employees of The WasteShed and its related organizations, and family members currently living in their household. Void where prohibited by law.

Selection and Notification of Winner

One winner will be awarded 2 General Admission Tickets. Winners will be selected by a random drawing within 5 days of the contest deadline (April 3rd) and notified by email. One winner per household. If confirmation or additional contact information is requested from winner and the winner does not respond by the deadline indicated in the email notification, the prize will be released to another winner. The chances of winning are dependent upon the number of entries. A list with the winners' names will be kept on file at The WasteShed and are available by emailing volunteer@thewasteshed.com.

General

By participating in this Giveaway, participants agree to the Official Rules, and that The WasteShed, its agents and employees will have no liability whatsoever for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind resulting from their use of the prize or their participation in the Giveaway. Prize is nontransferable and cannot be exchanged for cash. There can be no substitutions for a prize. The WasteShed may use winners’ names for publicity purposes without further compensation. Taxes and expenses as a result of winning each prize are solely the responsibility of the winner. The WasteShed will not disclose any address, phone number, or email contact information without permission from the contest entrants unless otherwise noted in the Giveaway description.

Chicago Store Move Update: The Chicago location on Kimball Ave is now OPEN! Store hours are Tuesday—Sunday 11am-6pm. Come check us out!


Due to additional unplanned closed dates, we continue to ask for your support by donating to our fundraiser to help us recover lost sales, and cover our payroll.


The story so far:

Volunteers and staff worked tirelessly over the holidays to close up shop at our Chicago Ave location. All was packed away in tidy little boxes, furniture was dismantled expertly by volunteers, donations from yesteryear crawled out from their hidey-holes, our beautiful WasteShed sign was unscrewed from on high.

While we worked inside, dozens of people flocked to our FREE pile to help rid us of hundreds of pounds of materials and all the while, all across the internet, our supporters rallied to help us BEAT OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL! The movers showed up early! Things were looking good!

We were all ready to move into our new Kimball location early on New Years Eve, with two trucks full of our HQ in tow. Only to discover that our space wasn't quite ready!

Our new storefronts still need some finishing touches on construction. We're unable to move in our operations yet. Imagine our disappointment!

We are still not certain on our opening date for donations or our store front at this time. We are asking for your patience while we continue to pause our donation intake and cancel volunteer shifts and events for this week.

Our staff was anticipating coming back to work early this week to help set up the new store, but we're going to need a little bit more time. In the meantime we're not just watching concrete set and paint dry, our staff is hard at work on some special projects behind the scenes. We hope to bring you the Best in Trash in all of Chicagoland by mid January. Stay tuned! Please follow this page for updated timelines.

Join us! We are hiring, and seeking new board members

The WasteShed Staff


The WasteShed is hiring for an Administrative Coordinator position based at our Humboldt Park location! Please send a resume with a short cover letter to info@thewasteshed.com.

Administrative Coordinator Job Description

 

The WasteShed Board


The WasteShed is also currently in the process of filling four Board seats beginning in February of 2023. In light of many of the organizational changes happening at the WasteShed (we have opened a new store and moved our flagship store!), we would like this to be an open and transparent process and welcome folks who are interested, have the time and capacity to support us during a time of transition, and have gifts and skills we could use to complete our board team.

We are seeking board members who bring a diversity of perspectives (arts/education/community-based/organizational support) and diverse identities (gender/race/ability/age/economic status) and have time and capacity to put into doing work (this board is a working board!) and have gifts and skills to share in one or more of the following areas:

·       Familiarity with organizational finance systems

·       Familiarity with technological infrastructure

·       Familiarity with Media/Marketing

·       Familiarity with Re-use market/ Sales 

·       Connections or familiarity with the Chicago philanthropic community or ability to support the WasteShed’s development efforts,

·       Connections with CPS Educators or CTU.

Board terms are two years long and members can serve two terms before rotating off the Board.  Please learn more about the role here.  Our monthly meetings are 1.5 hours long and held once a month, but we expect board members spend about 5-7 hours a month supporting the organization.

If you are interested, or know someone we should consider, please fill out this brief interest form no later than 1/21/23 and we will follow up with you.

Thank you,

The WasteShed Board

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The WasteShed's First 110 Tons

In 2019, we created a zine about the first 50 tons of reusable materials that we'd diverted from the landfill. in 2022, we updated the zine to reflect what we’ve done since then, and here it is on the internet!

The WasteShed: The 1st 110 Tons

In June of 2022, The WasteShed hit 220,000 pounds of materials diverted away from landfills and back into the community. That's 110 tons of art and educational materials that have gone back into use in Chicago's schools, art organizations, health services, studios, etc. (The interior of the zine features a list of accepted materials, plus a list of over 350 schools and organizations that use our materials).

We physically picked up and redistributed the weight of The Bean

(or if that's too abstract, 2 adult sperm whales plus an adolescent one). These materials represent an estimated $1,936,800 to Chicago's makers and teachers. *The number of people we have to thank for doing this important work will no longer fit on this page, but we are endlessly grateful to everyone who has put their time and backs into this undertaking.

The portion of this that has accrued to The WasteShed as income is significantly smaller, our retail operation covers basic costs and provides our awesome staff with a living wage (annual budget: $320k) (the love of our community is priceless)

Just for kicks, we calculated what part of Chicago's total annual household waste production this 110 ton intervention represents. If 365 days equaled 1.62 million tons of trash in 2020 (according to the Delta Institute's Chicago Waste Strategy report of 2021), that's 3 tons a minute, and The WasteShed's total diversion equals...

Just over half an hour: 35 minutes and 42 seconds out of an entire year.

Is this depressing? Yes! But aren't you glad someone is working on this?

In 2022, we are on track to divert 78,000 lbs, about 36% of our total EVER (and another $702,000 not landfilled)

Donate today to support our work to create a more sustainable and awesome Chicago.

When you donate funds to The WasteShed you are also supporting hundreds of local schools and nonprofits that rely on us for affordable materials