Promotional Products Help Gulf Oil Cleanup Efforts


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Promotional Products Help Gulf Oil Cleanup Efforts
By: Staff
Issue: 2010jun

Many Americans are looking for places to donate to the oil spill clean-up efforts in the Gulf. One promotional products company, Kinsport, Tennesee, supplier Lifeforce Glass, Inc. (UPIC: lifeforc), announced last week it will donate 10 percent of sales of the company’s Amazing Seabeans to the Environmental Defense Fund Emergency Response Campaign, says president Kristina Runciman, president of the company. Contributions will be made every Friday until the emergency has passed, she says.

“Donating 10 percent of the sales of Seabeans to the Environmental Defense Fund helps assuage that feeling of powerless that I’ve felt since the Deep Water Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20,” says Runciman. “We are a small company, but I anticipate that these contributions will be significant.”

The Environmental Defense Fund was chosen to receive these funds because of its four-star rating from Charity Navigator, and its long-standing relationships already established in the affected area. The EDF Coastal Louisiana response team is currently
conducting recovery and response efforts by securing federal funding, working with local shrimpers and environmentalists, scientific analysis and legal processing.

Amazing Seabeans, which constitute about 25 percent of company sales, are the seed pods of the Monkey Ladder vine, a large vine that grows in Equador. Lifeforce Glass imprints on the pods with company logos, inspirational sayings and pictures of animals. They are the company’s most environmentally benign product, as they require no manufacture other than the printing process.

If you are interested in contributing to the cleanup effort, here is a list of groups working on the oil spill that get three- and four-star ratings from CharityNavigator.com.

American Bird Conservancy
The Greater New Orleans Foundation
Oceana
Oxfam
National Audubon Society
National Wildlife Federation

Top photo by Petty Officer First Class John Masson

Comments (2)

6/16/2010
Ellie Bathe (ellie@highfiveonline.com)
company: High Five LLC
title: Seabeans available?
"I looked on SAGE and couldn't find the seabeans?"

6/16/2010
Tiffany Gonzalez (cs1@purpleg.com)
company: Purple Giraffe
title: Sales Manager
"Hi! My boss and I had an idea for selling one of our promotional item and donating some of the proceeds to the clean up effort. Could you tell me the best way of going about this, and who I might contact? Thanks, Tiffany"

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