Basic Organization Information
Cork Re-Harvest, Inc.
- Also Known As:
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Cork Forest Conservation Alliance
- Physical Address:
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Salem, OR
97302
- EIN:
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27-0776709
- Web URL:
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www.corkforest.org
- Blog URL:
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corkforest.org/blog.php/
- NTEE Category:
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C Environmental Quality Protection, Beautification
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C30 Natural Resource Conservation and Protection
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C Environmental Quality Protection, Beautification
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C36 Forest Conservation
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C Environmental Quality Protection, Beautification
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C27 Recycling
- Year Founded:
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2008
- Ruling Year:
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2010
- How This Organization Is Funded:
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Grants - $25,000
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Corporate sonsorship - $70,000
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donations - $80,000
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Mission Statement
<p>
</p><p>The Cork Forest Conservation Alliance campaigns globally for the protection and preservation of the Mediterranean cork forests, its inhabitants and biodiversity, through education, direct action, and partnerships with communities, businesses and governments.</p>
<p>We believe that teaching and promoting sustainability is the best way to systematically approach and solve the many complex environmental challenges facing society today.</p>
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Impact Summary from the Nonprofit
<li>We speak for the cork forests, the people, plants and animals that inhabit them and who depend on those forests for their survival.</li><li>Our education efforts focus on the ecological importance of the Mediterranean cork forests, sustainable harvesting practices and the priceless co-evolutionary relationship between people and nature.</li><li>Cork ReHarvest is a viable collection and recycling program. We work with our partners to collect the corks before they reach the landfills. However, collecting the cork is not enough. Doing so without increasing its carbon footprint is our major goal.</li><li>This program also helps to educate the public about the negative environmental impact that screw caps and plastic closures have to our planet.</li><li>We work with new businesses that recycle cork to develop carbon neutral processes for manufacturing and shipping of the up-cycled cork.</li><li>The "Real Cork Inside" TM certification program was developed to help wineries let consumers know that they have committed to using natural cork to close their wines. </li>
Revenue and Expenses
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Leadership
Patrick Spencer
Term:
Since
June
2009
Profile:
<div>With over thirty years experince in the Food and Beverage industry and a thirty years commitment to sustainable purchasing. Menber of the slow food movement. Filed work in Portuguese cork forests and cork manufacturing. Developed cork recycling program from inception to implementation. </div>
Leadership Statement:
<div>We are dedicated to preserving and enhancing one of the worlds most important forest regions. The cork forests are the most environmentally and sustainably harvested forests in the world, as well as being 94% family farmed. We hope to be able to bring this information to the American public to aid us in our mission.</div>
Highest Paid Employees & Their Compensation
Program:
Cork ReHarvest
- Budget:
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$20,000
- Category:
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Environment
- Population Served:
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Adults
Program Description:
<div>Cork ReHarvest is a global, natural cork recycling program. Our goal is to remove some of the 13 billion natural wine corks from landfills and to recycle them. All of the cork we receive is collected and transported with no carbon increase to the cork and all of the cork is recycled in North America.</div>
Program Long-Term Success:
<div>To remove Billions of natural corks from our landfills. To educated the public about the negative environmental impact of screw caps and plastic closures. To work with wineries to reverse the trend of using screw caps and plastic closures.</div>
Program Short-Term Success:
<div>Engaging more restaurants, retail wine shops and the hospitality industry to become cork collection partners. Work with wineries to return to, or continue to use natural cork stoppers.</div>
Program Success Monitored by:
<div>Tonnage of cork removed from landfills. number of collection partners in the US, Canada and the EU. The number of wineries committed to using or returning to natural cork stoppers.</div>
Program Success Examples:
<div>Collection partnerships with:</div>
<div>Whole Foods Markets, globally</div>
<div>Celebrity chefs: Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali, Michael Mina</div>
<div>Harrah's Entertainment Group, all properties in Las Vegas</div>
<div>Kendall-Jackson Winery</div>
Program:
Real Cork Inside
- Budget:
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$35,000
- Category:
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Environment
- Population Served:
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Adults
Program Description:
<div>With wineries using a foil or plastic closure/capsule over the top of the bottle, consumers are unable to determine whether there is a plastic closure or natural cork inside. We have developed a logo, of a small acorn, that will be placed on the back label of wine bottles. This acorn will let consumers know that, "there's real cork inside". </div>
Program Long-Term Success:
<div>The public has a great ability to effect change in how companies package and promote their products. With more and more consumers asking for sustainable, green and environmentally friendly products, our hope is that they will encourage wineries to shift from using screw caps and plastic closures and return to natural cork. </div>
Program Short-Term Success:
<div>As this is a license program, the success will come from the number of wineries who will license the acorn logo and the funding that will be generated from it. </div>
Program Success Monitored by:
<div>The number of wineries who sign up for the program and the funds generated. We will also gage the publics awareness of this program, by gaging the potential increase in sales of those wineries who have the logo on their bottles.</div>
Program Success Examples:
<div>Three wineries have agreed to participate in the program to date(4/7/11)</div>
<div>Frey Vineyards, Willamette Valley Vineyards and Tualatin Estates</div>
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