Community Engagement
We exist to be of service to our customers and communities.
Serving our Communities
At Casella, we are driven to make a difference by investing in the communities where we live and work through community giving, employee volunteering, and educational outreach.
Community Giving
In 2023, we achieved and surpassed our community giving goal, contributing an estimated $2,200,000 in the form of charitable donations, local sponsorships, and in-kind services.
This giving consisted primarily of locally directed contributions to community causes and organizations. In addition to achieving our 2030 goal, we are proud to announce the launch of The Casella Foundation, described below. With this Foundation, we aim to strengthen and grow our longstanding commitment to supporting the communities where we live and work.
Having achieved our initial target, we intend to continue our charitable donations, local community sponsorships, and in-kind services, and we aim to announce a new community giving goal in our next report. In the meantime, we will bring greater focus to our employee volunteering initiatives.
The Casella Foundation
In 2024, we launched The Casella Foundation in alignment with our long-term commitment to supporting the communities where we live and work. The primary focus of the Casella Foundation is to support qualified non-profit charitable organizations demonstrating community impact in environmental and natural resource conservation. Beyond this primary focus, we also support organizations advancing neighborhood revitalization, workforce development, and disaster relief.
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Employee Volunteering
As part of our drive to make a difference in the communities where we live and work, our teams organize and execute volunteering events including disaster relief efforts, food drives, neighborhood clean-ups, mentor connections, and much more.
To strengthen and amplify our beneficial impact, we have invested in a new employee volunteering portal and established a Community Champions Network of leaders. Their goal is to create an environment to inspire their coworkers to maximize their impact through volunteering. We encourage Casella employees to participate in five or more hours per year of volunteering, with a particular emphasis on sharing their recycling and sustainability expertise with their communities. Having achieved our first community giving goal, we will now turn our focus to building our employee volunteering program, with a new goal to invest 21,000 hours per year of our time and expertise in our local communities. We will adjust this goal periodically, as needed, to account for our growing team.
Community Champions Network
Champions plan and execute at least one service project annually with a nonprofit that demonstrates community impact in environmental and natural resource conservation, community revitalization, workforce development, or disaster relief. These generous volunteers lead, rally, and inspire their coworkers to get excited about taking positive actions to meet our company’s sustainability goals.
Educational Outreach
As we work to build the necessary services and infrastructure, we know that sharing our knowledge and expertise across our operating footprint helps us to educate the communities we serve.
Each year, we share our technical knowledge by participating in community events, visiting local schools, lecturing in university classrooms, offering facility tours, serving on industry panels, meeting with municipal governments, testifying to state-level leaders, and more. We deliver education through our social media, blogs, and other outlets to aid the communities we serve.
To strengthen and amplify educational outreach, we have created K-12 kits for local schools, to help inspire young people to care about the environment and understand the impact they have.
The Power of Play: Casella Partners with Wonderfeet on Interactive Exhibit
Education plays a critical role in the effectiveness of sustainable communities, and Casella was proud to partner with Wonderfeet Kids Museum in Rutland, VT to bring to life a unique learning experience for children of all ages through a customized Casella waste and recycling exhibit.
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