Give & Go Green

Give and Go Green is a donation drive held at the end of every spring semester. We collect items like mini fridges, fans, and lamps to store over the summer and then sell to new students during Fall NSOP at the Green Sale for a very discounted price. Each year, we accept around 40 volunteers from our applicant pool to stay a week after school ends in the city to help collect and sort through donations. These donations culminate in the Green Sale, which takes place during Green NSOP. Although Give and Go Green generates revenue for Ecoreps to fund other large projects like Greenfest, we also donate all of the clothes, food, toiletries, and books we receive to local charities, and have been the largest donators to Goodwill in the past years.

Green NSOP takes place at the beginning of Fall semester in which a group of 30 to 40 Columbia students come to campus during NSOP to help Columbia Housing with new student check-in while preparing for a giant annual sale, called the Green Sale, of donated and salvaged items from the previous semester. These items are collected in a program called Give and Go Green. At the Green Sale, all students, both new and current (and even alums!), can find a large selection of used items at affordable prices. Popular items at this sale include textbooks, mini fridges, fans, lamps, and kitchenware. Every year, we collect and sell thousands of items to divert usable items from landfill. All proceeds from this sale are used to fund EcoReps' sustainability initiatives, such as GreenFest.