Consider helping your favorite non-profit organization convert its office, warehouse, and/or program facilities to LED.
Doing so will reduce the organization’s electric bill, usually by hundreds or even thousands of dollars every year, allowing the organizations funds to be used for its objectives, not to pay an electric bill. It can also help reduce the organization’s carbon footprint.
The more hours the lights are on at a nonprofit’s location, the more LED can reduce spending on electricity and provide more dollars for the charity’s good works!
Organizations like these might benefit from LED:
Humane Societies American Legion/AMVETS Shelters
Training Centers YMCA/YWCA
Habitat for Humanity ReStores Boys & Girls Clubs
Art Centers ….and many more!
Basic Steps Taken in an LED for a NonProfit Project Include:
- Contact the Charity.
Confirm their interest in LED.
- Research the project. What lighting is used now, and what might be best for the future?
- Develop the Proposal.
This should include a project description, an implementation plan, and funding plan. Identify who will do what, how and when….and who will pay for it.
Check with the nonprofit’s electricity provider. Many offer rebates or other programs which may help with funding.
- Present the proposal.
- Gain the organization’s approval for your proposal.
- Implement your proposal.
- Share your success story with us at LED Brighter Communities at LEDbc.org!