The Calgary Can Team is Growing

Calgary Can is looking to increase its capacity. We will be accepting volunteer applications for the following Action Teams:.

• Bottle Picker Advisory Committee
• Communications Action Team
• Community Engagement Action Team

If you're interested, please email us with the following information by Friday, April 15:

• Name
• Contact information
• Position of interest
• Hours available per month (approximate)
• Why you want to work with Calgary Can
• Resume

Calgary Can Launches PICK'd Pilot

On March 1st Calgary Can is launching a new initiative called PICK'd, and will be offering next-day, refundable pick-up services for homes, offices, businesses and more - as long as you’re within the Downtown or Beltline area (i.e. Mission, Cliff Bungalow, Sunalta, China Town, Bridgeland, Sunnyside, Inglewood, etc.).

Our small but dedicated team of bottle pickers and committed members of our Bottle Pickers Advisory Committee (BPAC), have agreed to help activate the pilot and have been equipped to meet your refundables pick-up needs. All we need is an address and the desired date/time of your pick-up and we take care of the rest. It’s quick! It’s easy! It’s awesome!

We envision PICK’d as a free recycling service that can benefit bottle pickers by giving them easier and safer access to more refundables, and connect us as a larger community of people who care about recycling and meaningful livelihoods in the process!

You can sign up for the PICK'd Pilot here and tell your friends, your family, your barista, your yoga instructor or your condo board and have them join us too!

Thank you!

2016 Calgary Can AGM

We had our 2016 AGM on Friday, January 15 and some of the highlights included acknowledging 2015 accomplishments, highlighting 2016 plans, volunteer appreciation and adding three new board members!

2015 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2015 was a big year for Calgary Can:

• Winners of the SVP FastPitch Competition ($11,000)
• Winner of CCVO 2015 Non-Profit Innovation Award ($2,500)
• Winners of the Westmount Charter School FastPitch Competition ($2,000)
• New logo and website
• Over 300 bottle pickers surveys completed via Picker Engagement Events
• Bottle Picker Advisory Committee (BPAC) grew
• Attended Vulnerable Population training at the Drop In Centre
• Practicum student joined the Calgary Can team

2016 PLANS

We don't want to lose momentum, so we are going to continue to build on the work done in 2015:

• Implement the Community Recycling Program (name TBD)
• Moving the Mobile Depot forward (i.e. exploring ideas, forming partnerships, looking at funding options, etc.)
• Storytelling project (more information to come)
• Pop-Up engagement events
• ...and so much more!

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION

Calgary Can has some pretty amazing volunteers who devote many hours of their time and work tirelessly towards achieving our goals. We wanted to acknowledge their tremendous contribution because we definitely wouldn't be where we are without them!

CALGARY CAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS

We are excited to work with this energetic and passionate Board of Directors in 2016:

• Aman Adatia (Director)*
• Chris Lake (Director)*
• Kaitlyn Hill (Secretary)
• Kate Letizia (President)
• Nancy Dalton (Director)
• Nancy Hansen (Director)
• Natalie Andrijancic (Treasurer)
• Pat Letizia (Director)
• Seth Leon (Director)*

* New Board Member

Calgary Can Board 2016: Top Left to Right (Seth Leon, Nancy Hansen, Chris Lake, Aman Adatia, Nancy Dalton); Bottom Left to Right (Pat Letizia, Kate Letizia, Kaitlyn Hill, Natalie Andrijancic)