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FACILITIES MANAGER MARCH/APRIL 2018 15 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Tempe, Arizona Submitted by Kendon Jung, Student Involvement Coordinator, Leadership & Sustainability EXPERIENCE THE CENTER OF STUDENT ACTIVITY AND LEADERSHIP Changemaker Central @ ASU exists to create a university- wide culture that empowers students to apply their passion, knowledge, and expertise to create innovative solutions to local, national, and global challenges. We provide opportunities and resources to inspire, catalyze, and sustain student-driven social change through community service, high-impact careers, and social entrepreneurship. Born from a student forum with President Michael Crow, change agents from the ASU West location, with a passion for bridging the gap between food waste and food insecurity, introduced Borderlands Food Bank. Since then, Changemaker Central @ ASU has worked with Borderlands Food Bank and volunteer student organizations to divert fresh, nutritious pro- duce from the landfill into the hands of Arizona families. During 2016 - 2017 academic year, ASU Borderlands has…. • Hosted 12 P.O.W.W.O.W.s • Engaged 176+ student volunteers in food insecurity educa- tional awareness • Diverted 135,695+ lbs of food from landfill • Supplemented 206,183 meals • Connected 8,644 people to fresh produce • Generated $73,876+ community stimulus As #1 in innovation for three years running, this partnership initiative on the ASU Poly, Tempe, and West locations emulates personal action and social embeddedness characteristics that have driven ASU's design aspirations as the New American University. ince 2003 at least one issue per year of Facilities Manager has had a focus or special theme related to campus sustainability, energy efficiencies, and environmental stewardship. In 2016 I sent out a call for short case studies and received 17, all of which we published to show the variety and innovation of our campus sustainability, energy, and facilities departments. I expanded the call for case studies last year and was pleased to see an increase of submissions to 27; again, I published them all. For this third installment of sustainability best practices, I reached out to the members of AASHE, the Asso- ciation of College and University Housing Officials-International, my colleagues at the Higher Education As- sociations Sustainability Consortium, the Green School listserv, and several other venues. I planned to increase the number of published case studies to an even three dozen. The call was so successful that I had received a whopping 80 submissions for these 36 slots. A number of schools submitted more than one, with one univer- sity sending write-ups of seven separate projects. Clearly, there are innumerable positive and beneficial pro- grams going on throughout North America that provide leadership to students, efficiencies to campuses, and a hopeful future. The best practices included in this issue are from small private liberal arts colleges, large public research universities, community colleges, and one K-12 organization, with half a dozen from across Canada. What's go- ing to happen to the 44 projects that were not included? Because of the wonderful response, we will include several more best practices in our May/June issue. In addition, APPA will soon be publishing a collection of all case study submissions from the past three years into a new publication later this spring. Be watching for it. In the meantime, dive into the interesting and exciting programs that follow. There's a lot of great stuff here. S

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