Amanda LaGrange will speak to Edina Rotary about "Jobs from Junk" at the Feb. 26 meeting
The Rotary Club of Edina will welcome Amanda LaGrange as the program speaker at the Thursday, Feb. 26, meeting. LaGrange is the director of marketing for Tech Dump, a nonprofit organization that collects and recycles electronics and uses the proceeds from the recycling to create jobs for those with challenging work histories. She will speak about "Jobs for Junk."After six years with General Mills in corporate finance, LaGrange joined Tech Dump as the director of marketing in June 2013. After driving the organization to double in size, The Minneapolis-St Paul Business Journal recognized her as a 2014 Top 50 Women in Business. LaGrange is a huge believer in the potential for business as a solution for poverty and injustice. She was first exposed to the idea of social enterprise and corporate social responsibility during her time at Indiana University. She is an Indiana native and often shows her “corn and college basketball” roots.
Tech Dump offers free recycling of electronics. It is a division of Jobs Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing jobs for adults with barriers to employment in order for them to obtain marketable skills and a pathway to self-sufficiency. Tech Dump accomplishes this through the collection and recycling of electronics (gently used, obsolete or damaged electronic components), which not only supports a green initiative, but also uses the proceeds from recycling and refurbishing to create jobs for those with challenging work histories. Most of our program participants are from North Minneapolis.
Join us at 12:15 p.m. at the Edina Country Club this Thursday!