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P a g e 9 o f 2 3 <br />Collaborators and Partners <br /> to preserve and protect natural environments that includes clean <br />air, wildlife and sustainable energy, by reducing waste in the <br />landfill, creating rich compost that will increase soil health and <br />productivity and capture more carbon, reducing driving to farther <br />waste collection sites, and reducing methane emissions at the <br />landfill. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />In some projects, collaborators and partners provide essential capacity and connections. If collaborators <br />or partners are an essential part of your project whether or not they are receiving grant funds, please <br />use this section to provide more details. If you are not working with collaborators or partners, please <br />feel free to write N/A in this section and move to the Social Justice and Racial Equity section. <br /> <br />13. Please describe one to three <br />key partnerships/collaborations <br />that add the most value to the <br />success of the proposed <br />project: <br />We don’t have any formal collaborators on the project, but the <br />following three organizations have contributed to the start of our <br />Community Compost Collection site at the ERFM and continue to <br />play an important role, though they will not be involved in the <br />hiring, training or supervising of the paid compost monitors. <br />We could not have started the Community Compost Collection <br />site at the ERFM without the help of Orange County Solid Waste <br />Management. They are paying for the collection, pick up and <br />composting of our collection as part of their 21-year effort to <br />reduce the amount of waste going to landfills. <br />Orange County Waste Management contracts with Brooks <br />Contractors. Brooks picks up and composts what is collected at <br />the market. They consider themselves bridge connectors for the <br />community, in getting organic wastes from plate back to the farm <br />to do the whole cycle over again. They view their business role as <br />true community collaborators for composting—a process that <br />leads to fresh, healthy food, reduced greenhouse gas emissions <br />and richer soil for our farmers and home gardeners. <br /> <br />Climate Reality Orange County initiated and coordinated the <br />Community Compost Collection site at the Eno River Farmers’ <br />Market and has been serving as volunteer coordinator for the <br />site. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: AFC9D9B8-B7DD-46DF-8603-54762363FD20