This dedicated focus on BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving community composters is long overdue,” said Brenda Platt, director of ILSR’s Composting for Community Initiative, about the grant...
We are proud to announce the ten awardees of the 2024 BIPOC Community Composter Mini-Grant Program. This BIPOC Community Composter Mini-Grant Program provides $165,000 in...
In this webinar, three successful community composting businesses discuss scaling up their operations, while staying true to the distributed operations and mission-driven focus that set...
Using poetry to explore how community composting can empower youth and transform injustices.
In 2018, Georgia revised its composting regulations to introduce a permit-by-rule category specifically designed for community-scale operations that accept food scraps from external sources. All...
Support the 8th National Cultivating Community Composting Forum. Contributions will primarily cover our scholarship fund and prioritize equitable access to forum events, as well as...
El Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) lanzará el Programa de Minisubvenciones para Compostadores Comunitarios que pertenezcan a la agrupación de personas negras, indígenas y de...
ILSR is partnering with 11th Hour Racing to provide $100,000 in sub-grants to selected BIPOC-led or BIPOC-serving composting projects in New England. …
In this episode of the Composting for Community Podcast, we are joined by Kourtnii Brown, founder and director of Common Compost (Oakland, California) and CEO...
ILSR will host a pre-conference workshop, Community Composting Systems: New Projects and Scaling Up Existing Projects, as part of the US Composting Council’s 2024 Conference...
New York City’s recent rollout of mandatory curbside organics exemplifies national troubling trends between the relationship of government organics recycling programs and community composters. …...
This webinar highlights strategies for accessing funding under EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) Program.… Read More
We are excited to announce the release of three short videos highlighting the economic, environmental, and social benefits of community composting, created by ILSR’s Composting...
“We strongly urge the Mayor and City Council to halt these short-sighted cuts and commit to long-term funding of the NYC Compost Project and GrowNYC.”...
ILSR’s Community Composting Outreach and Education Project was among the projects selected for funding under the US EPA's Recycling Education and Outreach grants.