Non-Profit Partnerships and Green Business

While we import globally, and sell nationally, when it comes to supporting non-profits we try to think locally/regionally. This involves donating thousands of dollars in product and good old cash to groups working to improve education, healthcare, the arts, the environment, and more . (It’s impressive how many of these groups there are in our relatively small community!) We also support our employees’ active participation in local non-profit organizations. In fact, we offer all employees eight hours of paid work time to volunteer. Plus, we regularly achieve 100% participation (with a 100% employer match) in our local United Way.

What about green? (Customers often ask.) Well, we have always collected and re-used packing “peanuts” before they land in the landfill. We insist that all our suppliers use PET bottles because they are the easiest to recycle, don’t leach, and use less energy to produce and ship. The rest of our packaging and marketing materials is also completely recyclable, and typically printed on recycled papers.

These activities go both ways. Certainly, they help the organizations involved…and even the planet a little bit. But they also make Baudelaire a better, more positive, vibrant place to work.

Featured Sponsorship

A good friend recently made a movie that’s relevant to all of us. It’s about, of all things, dying, and is called Holding Our Own: Embracing The End of Life. As the title implies, it helps people approach death and dying in a much more positive way than is common in this country. It does so by focusing on the work of a local artist and hospice chorus (also started by a good friend of ours). We’re proud to have played a small part in the film’s creation and encourage you to take a moment to look at the website and maybe even order a copy. This is definitely a moving movie!