THANK YOU, Whistler, for voting WCSS your Best Non-Profit and the Re Use It Centre Whistler your Best Used Clothing Store!
We are truly honoured to serve this community and want to share our impact throughout 2024!
In 2024:
We had 10,000 Outreach visits! An increase of 20% over the year before!
We diverted 405,652 kilograms of waste from the landfill, selling your gently used second-hand items at the Re Use It Centre Whistler and Re Build It Centre Whistler stores to benefit local programs!
YOU raised $250,000 for local programming through our refundable recycling program at the Re Build It Centre Whistler! Do you want to donate your business or strata’s refundable recycling to help your community? Get in touch: mywcss.org/social-enterprises/recycling/
We served 21,137 people at the Whistler Food Bank, an increase of 14% over the year before!
In 2024, we recovered 58,785 kilograms of food from local grocery stores and restaurants (it would cost us $456,171 to buy that much food!) THANK YOU to our generous community for donating this food – we cannot run this service without you.
We sent 80,800 servings of food to Whistler’s schools! Kids can access this food any time for any reason. EVERYONE learns better on a full stomach!
THANK YOU, Whistler, for your generous support of our programming, we can’t do this without you and we are so grateful for this recognition.
Read the full article and discover other Best of Whistler winners at Pique Newsmagazine.