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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Two opportunities to participate in the free webinar described below…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jennifer Hamilton [mailto:Jennifer.Hamilton@hkstrategies.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 06, 2012 8:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> info@recycleok.org<br><b>Subject:</b> CVP Connect: a new, FREE recycling education tool<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good morning, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wanted to make you aware of a new FREE tool available to your members. Please feel free to distribute this information as you deem appropriate.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The <a href="http://www.recyclecurbside.org/">Curbside Value Partnership</a>, a national non-profit focused on helping communities improve programs through education, has recently launched a <b>FREE</b>, brand-new, Web-based education training tool called <b>CVP Connect (<a href="http://www.CVPConnect.org">www.CVPConnect.org</a>)</b>. Designed specifically for recycling coordinators, CVP Connect houses all the resources needed to develop a strategic and tailored education campaign, including education-focused Webinars and tutorials, community case studies, best practices, tips sheets and campaign artwork that can be <b>tailored and localized</b> for use in individual communities. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are holding two free Webinars this month for recycling coordinators to learn more about CVP Connect and how it can help them in their education efforts. The Webinar will showcase some recent best practices, preview our new proprietary approach to education planning and give viewers a short demo to learn how to get started. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>There are two Webinars to choose from: <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001OECTuyl0VLlQKaFABEL5ulOhZCy4pvauKjWY8uH0YlVZ6irby6nZ93iCtxUP4Si4AWG5awVVpanNh5HAWWmk19p7GARf6XyMCJU4rRZgFTtoSIEzw9wZRhGEGc0S4KTT0VeUPyl8yQs=">10-11 a.m. ET, Tuesday, April 10</a> <span style='color:windowtext'>(9-10 am CT)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001OECTuyl0VLlQKaFABEL5ulOhZCy4pvauKjWY8uH0YlVZ6irby6nZ93iCtxUP4Si4AWG5awVVpanNh5HAWWmk19p7GARf6XyMCJU4rRZgFTtoSIEzw9wZRrrZIu47r1JVL-ohA-LfXa8=">3:30-4:40 p.m. ET, Tuesday, April 17</a> <span style='color:windowtext'>(2:30-3:30 pm CT)</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Your members can click on the links above to self-register, or<span style='color:black'> email their name and preferred W</span>ebinar date to <span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:info@recyclecurbside.org">info@recyclecurbside.org</a> and we’ll send the details. Spaces are limited to the first 100 registrants per Webinar. I have also attached a flyer with full details about the Webinars, including links to register. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>We hope you will attend one of the Webinars to learn more and help us spread the word about this exciting new FREE tool to your members. We will also be submitting copy about CVP Connect to be included in your next newsletter, stay tuned for that in a separate email. I have also included a full press release below with more details about CVP Connect.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We appreciate any support you can give us in helping to spread the word about CVP Connect!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jennifer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=316 height=45 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CD134C.488D8990" alt="CVP logo-color72dpi"> <img border=0 width=100 height=127 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CD134C.488D8990" alt="cid:image003.jpg@01CD134C.488D8990"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Curbside Recycling News<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Media Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=left style='margin-left:301.5pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-301.5pt'><b><span lang=NO-BOK style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span lang=NO-BOK style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jennifer Hamilton, CVP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=left style='margin-left:301.5pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-301.5pt'><span lang=NO-BOK style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (813) 775-6211<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=left style='margin-left:301.5pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-301.5pt'><span lang=NO-BOK style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";text-transform:uppercase'>CVP CONNECT: EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES THROUGH EDUCATION!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New online education tool from the Curbside Value Partnership helps recycling educators develop more strategic and effective campaigns<span style='text-transform:uppercase'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";text-transform:uppercase'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ARLINGTON, Va.</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>—Motivating consumers to recycle more remains an education challenge in communities nationwide. Recycling coordinators, who are on the front lines of public education, face numerous obstacles, including scarce resources and an increasingly cluttered media environment. Today, that challenge became a bit easier, thanks to a new free tool called CVP Connect (</span><a href="http://www.CVPConnect.org"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.CVPConnect.org</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>) that is being unveiled by the Curbside Value Partnership (CVP), a national nonprofit organization that works to increase participation and improve efficiencies in residential curbside recycling programs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CVP Connect is a Web-based communications training tool designed for recycling coordinators. The site provides free resources and guidance for recycling coordinators on how they can develop, execute and measure strategic education campaigns. A series of Webinars will guide users through the seemingly complicated maze of PR, marketing and social media best practices. Users will also access tips, case studies, templates and tutorials and even high-quality creative files that they can put into practice right away. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Recycling coordinators are stretched thin. They juggle multiple jobs, including educating the public. Yet they often don’t have the resources or the expertise to be as effective as possible,” said Steve Thompson, executive director of CVP. “Many recycling coordinators come to CVP looking for inspiration and fresh ideas. Well, now they can find this and more online. CVP Connect is designed to take the guesswork, and the frustration, out of developing impactful education campaigns. And the best part? <i>It’s all free</i>. I encourage all recycling educators to check it out and put the tools into practice today.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Since its public debut in 2005, CVP has worked with communities to launch and measure education campaigns tailored to meet their unique needs, amassing a library of best practices along the way. These best practices, and more, are captured within CVP Connect and for the first time are being shared nationally, all in one place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Education is the <i>most cost-effective way</i> to improve the long-term sustainability of recycling programs</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>—</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>particularly curbside,” said David Gill, CVP board chair and global account director at Novelis. “We have worked with many communities over the years to develop award-winning campaigns that move the needle. We want to make sure that every community has access to these campaigns and our best practices so they can develop their own game-changing campaigns.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“The magic of CVP Connect is that it allows us to engage every community and provide them with the tested tools and tips they need,” Gill added. “No more hunting around the Web to find an example. CVP Connect is a one-stop shop. And because we believe so deeply that measurement is at the core of all strategic campaigns, we focus heavily on developing performance-based metrics so a community can gauge the <i>actual </i>impact of their education investment on recycling tonnage. We anticipate that CVP Connect will help us foster a national habit of improved fact-based decision making.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CVP Connect users will be guided through a series of self-paced training modules about effective education practices and strategic planning. Topics include identifying the right target audience, honing in on the most effective messages to reach that audience, developing and placing public service announcements (PSAs) and advertising, successful public relations and media outreach techniques, tips for using social media, the basics of social marketing and more. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To help ensure CVP Connect was created to best suit the needs of recycling educators and stakeholders, an advisory council made up of industry representatives from the private and public sectors at the community, state and national levels provided guidance and insights throughout its development. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“CVP Connect is an all-inclusive assessment tool with meat to it,” said Paul Dunn, recycling coordinator for the City of Omaha Public Works and member of the Advisory Council. “I can see several ways I will use it already. I particularly like that it is self-paced and that I can access the tools on my own time, on my own schedule. I also still can’t get over the fact that it’s free. I don’t know why anyone would pass up this tool.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CVP Connect reinforces the importance of measuring impact as a crucial component to education. In fact, reporting program data is the <i>only requirement</i> for users to access CVP Connect. CVP Connect was developed in partnership with Emerge Knowledge, the company behind the Re-TRAC Connect data management tool. Users will be asked to report basic program information such as MSW tonnage and residential tonnage in order to use the tool.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Communities have this basic program information already, and if they don’t, they should. Being armed with real data is powerful. How else will they know they are being effective? By sharing their data with us, we’ll have tangible figures on who is using the tool, how, and what successes they are seeing based on what they learn. It ensures we are providing quality, impactful content and that users are putting it into practice,” said Thompson. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>New training modules and content will be added to CVP Connect on an ongoing basis to incentivize users to return and to enable ongoing data reporting and measurement. To learn more and get started, visit </span><a href="http://www.CVPConnect.org"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.CVPConnect.org</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ABOUT THE CURBSIDE VALUE PARTNERSHIP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Curbside Value Partnership (CVP) is a 501(c)(3) organization designed to grow participation in curbside recycling programs nationwide. CVP is the only current national program that engages all recycling stakeholders (including government, private industry, haulers and materials recovery facilities) to identify solutions to improving curbside recycling programs through education and data analysis. CVP’s goal is to launch and study education programs to increase participation in local curbside programs, and make programs more profitable and sustainable. To date, 28 communities and four states have been engaged by CVP in education campaigns. The program is currently funded by members of the Aluminum Association (Alcoa, Golden Aluminum, Novelis and Tri-Arrow Aluminum), Can Manufacturers Institute (Ball Corporation, BWAY Corporation, Crown Holdings Inc., Impress USA, Metal Container Corporation, Sonoco-Phoenix Inc, Rexam, Silgan Containers Corporation and the Van Can Company) as well as the American Chemistry Council, Coca Cola Recycling, the Grocery Manufacturers Association and Keep America Beautiful. Other corporate sponsors interested in impacting recycling rates in a meaningful way are always welcome. 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