2019 ANNUAL REPORT

Working to protect the environment since 1939 2019 highlights shown clockwise from upper left: pop-up glass collection campaign launches to address curbside recycling challenges; environmental education programs include interactive field trips; supporters gather at PRC’s 80th anniversary celebration held at The Ballroom at Ellis Preserve; PRC Board of Directors repre - sent diverse industries, geography and areas of expertise; TRUE (Total Resource Use & Efficiency) Zero Waste Certification symposium takes place in Pittsburgh; PRC continues successful partnership with Eastern Delaware County Stormwater Collaborative. Looking back at the accomplishments of 2019, I’m reminded that it 2019 HIGHLIGHTS truly was an exciting and challenging period for the Pennsylvania Resources Council. The past year witnessed the launch of new COLLECTION EVENTS programs, the beginning of our 80th anniversary celebration and the HARD TO RECYCLE 307,483 pounds 3,730 households adoption of a new mission statement to lead our work into the future. HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS 256,229 pounds 3,671 households As we look back over this eventful year, a few highlights stand out: GLASS 400,000 pounds 10,000 households • The start-up of an extremely successful “pop-up” glass collection REUSE FEST 20,035 pounds 375 households campaign that served 10,000 households and diverted 200 tons of DRUG TAKE-BACK DAY 1,151 pounds 445 households glass from western PA landfills; • Expanding our Stream Smart House Call service to help hundreds of homeowners reduce runoff and protect the water quality of the ZERO WASTE Delaware River; • Hosting the TRUE (Total Resource Use & Efficiency) Zero Waste 33 114,000 330 900,000 Certification symposium to educate organizations regarding fiscally events pounds (87%) businesses individuals responsible strategies for advancing solid waste/recycling goals; managed waste diverted served educated • Launching a Recycling 101 workshop to help residents across PA adapt to the changing world of recycling; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION • Realigning staff at both ends of the Commonwealth while preparing to relocate both East and West headquarter locations; • Kicking off our 80th anniversary with a memorable evening of 10,298 1,195 8,484 conversation, conservation and cocktails at the historic Ballroom at school students adults participated individuals through- Ellis Preserve. attended 237 school in 51 conservation out state called programs workshops recycling hotline PRC remains a leader of statewide environmental education efforts, recycling and waste diversion programs, anti-litter campaigns and many other programs. We invite you to become a member and help us to LITTER PREVENTION lead and promote individual and collective action to prevent waste and conserve Pennsylvania’s environmental resources for each generation. 1,300 650 45 83 individuals residents community photographers volunteered received groups entered Lens in 90 neighbor- recycling bins participated on Litter hoods competition

Justin Stockdale Managing Director WATERSHED PROTECTION homes received 65 stormwater audits 12 rain garden installed PRC thanks all of our family, business, government and individual members, as well as our supporters and partners who help us to Partners continue doing the work we do throughout the year. You make our important mission and work possible! Foundations Gateway Recycling Cambria County Darby Creek Valley Association Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills Penn State Master Gardeners The Buhl Foundation Giant Eagle City of Erie Doug Oster/Everybody Gardens/ Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Environmental Council Tribune-Review Colcom Foundation Green Mountain Energy City of Pittsburgh Global Links Phipps Garden Center Erie Community Foundation Groundwater Sciences Corporation City of Pittsburgh Office of Special Events Dress for Success Erie Goodwill of Erie Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Memorial Fund Hare Chase & Heckman, Inc. Delaware County Community Corrections Dress for Success Pittsburgh Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Giant Eagle Foundation The Hershey Company Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Duquesne University Greater Erie Area Habitat for Humanity Pittsburgh Playhouse/Point Park University Hillman Foundation Highmark Eastern Delaware County Stormwater East End Food Coop Green Building Alliance Preserve Our Pennsylvania Towns Laurel Foundation Kendra Scott Collaborative The Education Partnership Green Scene Thrift Propel Northside Community Wellness McCune Foundation Langan Engineering and Environmental Erie County Recycling Program Embracing Our Veterans Grow Pittsburgh Center Services, Inc. National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Fayette County The Enterprise Center of Walnut Hill Humane Animal Rescue Quaker Valley High School Lanxess Corporation Philadelphia Foundation Frazer Township Erie City Mission La Roche University The Resource Exchange Microsoft Pittsburgh Foundation Green Tree Borough Exelon Fairless Hills Energy Education Mercy Center for Women Revivalist Gin Monroe Energy PNC Charitable Trusts Haverford Township Environmental Center Lower Merion Conservancy Scenic Pittsburgh Municipal Utility Advisors Advisory Committee Richard King Mellon Foundation Fossil Free Fuel The Mall at Robinson Society of Women Environmental NewsRadio 1020 KDKA Municipality of Bethel Park State Farm Insurance Companies Free Ride Off the Floor Pittsburgh Professionals Foundation Owens Illinois Municipality of Mt. Lebanon Free Store Wilkinsburg P3R Southwest PA Air Quality Partnership Triangle Community Foundation Oxford Development PA Department of Environmental Protection Patagonia PA DEP Growing Greener Grant Program William Penn Foundation PRC’s financial records have been audited by Doyle & McDonnell, PC, PECO PA DEP Household Hazardous Waste 2018 Financials in Broomall, Pa. Audit reports are available for examination at PRC’s Corporate & Pennsylvania American Water Collection Grant Program Source: 2018 Audit western headquarters in Pittsburgh. PRC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit orga- Business Sponsors Pennsylvania Environmental Digest PA Environmental Improvement Tax Credit nization whose environmental and educational programs are funded Quaker Valley Council of Governments by its members, foundations, contracts and fee-for-services. Aqua Pennsylvania Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Blank Rome LLP Post & Schell, PC Robinson Township Revenue BNY Mellon RT Environmental Washington County Education and Training...... $640,090 . . . . 42% Boeing Company Straub Brewery, Inc. West Mifflin Borough Membership, Contributions and Fundraising . . . . $337,390 . . . . 22% Environmental Learning Center ...... $49,458 . . . . 3% Branton Strategies, LLC Stroud Water Research Center Interest...... $57 . . . . 0% Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC Terrace Place at Vincentian Program Partners Net Assets Released from Restriction...... $497,230 . . . . 33% CAP Glass Threadbare Cider House & Meadery 6abc Total Revenue and Other Support ...... $1,524,225 Chevron Trinity Consultants AgRecycle CHPlanning, Limited UPMC Allegheny CleanWays Expenses Covanta Energy Waste Management The ANNA Shelter Programs...... $ 1,313,471 . . . 87% Covenant Bank Wawa, Inc. Appliance Warehouse Member Services ...... $13,350 . . . 1% Ductmate Industries Wegmans Art Institute of Pittsburgh Administration ...... $131,305 . . . 9% Fundraising ...... $39,760 . . . 3% Duquesne Light Watt Choices Bethel Park High School Total Expenses ...... $ 1,497,886 Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott Government Grantors Brother’s Brother Foundation & Sponsors Carnegie Mellon University Eldredge, Inc. Changes in Net Assets eLoop llc ALCOSAN Chester Environmental Partnership Environmental Enterprises, Inc. Allegheny County Chosen International Medical Association Education and Training...... $ 457,570 Net Assets Released from Restrictions...... (497,230) Exelon Corporation Allegheny County Health Department Communitopia Increase (Decrease) in Temporarily Unrestricted Net Assets ...... (39,660) Fishtown Neighborhood Association Allegheny County Parks Concurrent Technologies Corporation Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets...... (13,321) Fox Rothschild, LLP Beaver County Conservation Consultants, Inc. Net Assets – Beginning of Year ...... 217,449 Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union Borough of Millvale Construction Junction Net Assets – End of Year...... 204,128 Student Conservation Association Interboro School District Borough of Avalon Zero Waste Partners Hollow Oak Brewhaha/Hollow Oak Land Trust Sustainable Business Network Manchester Academic Charter School Borough of Dormont 2030 District Progress Report & Summer Soiree/ Kayafest/Big Burrito Restaurant Group Sustainable Pittsburgh North Allegheny School District Borough of Fox Chapel Green Building Alliance Kickball for a Cause/PUMP Sustainable Sewickley Northside Catholic School Boyd Roll Off 25th Anniversary Party/PULSE Millvale Music Festival/Millvale CDC Temple University OSHER at CMU Chartiers Valley Shopping Center Alcosan Open House/Allegheny County Sanitary Mt. Lebanon Earth Day/LeboGreen.org Think Company Pittsburgh Environmental Charter School City of Hermitage Authority New Product Launch/Adidas University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy Pittsburgh Montessori Collier Township Allegheny Solar Fest/SUNWPA Night in the Tropics/National Aviary UPMC Hamot Pittsburgh Public Schools Edgeworth Borough Beers of the Burgh Festival/Beers of the Burgh Party on the Mount/Mt Washington CDC UPMC Medical Equipment Recycling Program Provident Charter School Kiwanis Park Shaler Black Tie and Tails/Animal Friends PedalPGH/BikePGH Villanova University Quaker Valley School District Moon Township Block Party/All for All Pittonkatonk Festival/Pittonkatonk Washington County Family Entertainment Southeast Delco School District Municipality of Bethel Park Community Days/Ross Township Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh Impact/Donna Bour Washington Wild Things Squirrel Hill Community Day School Municipality of Mt. Lebanon Deutschtown Music Festival/Northside Leadership Associates West Mifflin Area High School Uniontown Area School District Municipality of Murrysville Conference Retrospective 1992-2019/Jewish Women’s Center WPXI 11 Cares Upper Darby School District Office of Pennsylvania State Senator Lindsey M. Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon/P3R of Pittsburgh Williams Wynnefield Overbrook Revitalization Upper St. Clair School District Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival/Pittsburgh Richard S. Caliguiri Great Race/City of Pittsburgh West Mifflin School District Peters Township Cultural Trust Office of Special Events Education Partners William Penn School District Scott Township EcoDistricts Summit/EcoDistricts Steel Chef Cookoff/Focus On Renewal Sto-Rox & Albert Gallatin Area School District South Fayette Township EQT Pittsburgh 10 Miler/P3R Sustainable Pittsburgh Brownsville Area School District Glass Recycling South Strabane Township Garden Get Down/Grow Pittsburgh Steel City Big Pour/Construction Junction Partners Connellsville Area School District Township of O’Hara Good Food Fest/Phipps Conservatory and Botanical VegFest/Pittsburgh VegFest Fayette County Schools Avonworth Park Township of Upper St. Clair Gardensw Walk MS/National Multiple Sclerosis Society Fox Chapel Area School District Bellevue Borough Village Square Mall Homegrown Harvest Dinner/Mt Washington Walk to Defeat ALS/The ALS Association, Gardens Limited Ben Avon Heights Borough Vogel Disposal Community Garden Western Pennsylvania Chapter

Board of Directors Executive Committee TREASURER Board Members Mike Gable Frank Tamulonis, Esq. Staff Walter J. Burlack Diane Alwine Construction Junction Blank Rome LLP PRESIDENT Community Growth Fund Lebanon Valley College Charnelle Hicks Meghan Todd MANAGING DIRECTOR John P. Fillo, Ph.D., CPEA Brian J. Clark, Esq. CHPlanning Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union Justin Stockdale Trinity Consultants AT LARGE MEMBERS Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC Matt Kesling Jason P. Wirick Stacy Albin David A. Sharp Wawa, Inc. Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Adam H. Cutler, Esq. Sarah Alessio Shea VICE PRESIDENTS Covanta Fox Rothschild, LLP Keith Kowalski Diana Andrejczak Winifred (Winnie) Branton, Esq. Jay P. Vasell PECO Directors Emeritus Branton Strategies, LLC Jerry V. DeRosa, CHMM Kaity Baril Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. Ruth Becker Tug Hill Operating, LLC Patricia Lovelace Carol Butler Scott R. Dismukes, Esq. Dollar Energy Fund Howard Wein, Esq. Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott PAST PRESIDENT Rob Eppley Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC Leslie Dawson Safety-Kleen George Matysik Ashley DiGregorio Tomlinson Fort Philadelphia Parks Alliance SECRETARY Apex Companies, LLC Thomas Falcone, DBA Jeanne Harris Nascent Services Company Charles F. McElwee Nancy Martin David E. Hess Milton Hershey School Crisci Associates Ronald G. Fender Emily Potoczny AECOM Corp. Paul M. Schmidt Jacy Rosenbaum Post & Schell, P.C. Michael Stepaniak Karen Wood Jayne Young An early morning view of the Delaware River near Washington Crossing in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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