Sure We Can

March Forth on March 4th! — Sure We Can Dear friend, Another year, another legislative session. While most of the state is still freezing under layers of ice, Albany is heating up! We’re in the midst of state budget negotiations–billions a...

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Support Sure We Can on GivingTuesday Sure We Can is a non-profit recycling center, community space and sustainability hub in Brooklyn where canners, students and neighbors come together through recycling, sustainability, gardening, and a...

To support us year round, you can always make a donation here: www.mightycause.com/organization/Sure-We-Can

THANK YOU!

With your support, we surpassed our goal of raising $30k in our 2025 fundraiser ⭐️

Thank you for supporting Sure We Can's community-sensitive redemption service at a time when canners need it more than ever ❤️

Making Meaning — Sure We Can Dear friend, I hope you are spending this holiday season warm and safe. I hope, if you can, you’re resting. After a tough year, we’ve earned it! The winter holidays make me reflect on my secular upb...

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Our Essential Services! Two Weeks Left to Help! — Sure We Can Dear friend, Since I last wrote to you, we’ve made some great strides in our effort to raise $30,000 before the end of the year to maintain our staffing and programs in 2026 . We’re less than $6...

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Support Stand Up for Sure We Can on Mightycause Help us maintain our redemption service and programming at the current level into 2026 and beyond!

Thousands of canners in New York City are the backbone of this labor intensive system, ensuring our bottles and cans recycled. Help us support these vital yet marginalized workers today www.bit.ly/supportswc

When you finish a drink and toss your bottle or can, you may not think about where it goes next. In New York, there's a great chance a canner will collect it along their route, and sort it among hundreds of other bottles and cans, and bring it to a place like Sure We Can.

Pawel shares what Sure We Can & this community means to him.

Stand with Sure We Can & NYC's canners. Make a donation today at 🔗 www.bit.ly/supportswc

2 weeks left to help us reach our goal 💚

If Not Us, Then Who? — Sure We Can Dear friend, We are almost halfway to meeting our goal to raise $30,000 before the end of the year in order to sustain staffing and programs in the coming year. Thank you so much to those who’ve...

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A deposit-based bottle recycling program could offer homeless communities an opportunity to make a profit - Street Sense Media Councilmember Brianne Nadeau sees a proposed bottle bill as an income opportunity for low-income residents.

New York isn't the only place working towards a bottle bill! Legislators and advocates in Washington D.C. are advancing a bill that would include a dime deposit for bottled and canned beverages sold there ♻️⭐️

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This is so critical

With the political and social climate turning against the most vulnerable members of our communities, canners need supportive services and safe spaces more than ever.
Please consider making a donation to Sure We Can to support NYC's canners. 💚

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Earning a living by canning is arduous work. As a community-sensitive redemption center, we offer support that canners can't get anywhere else.

Please help us support this community by making a donation
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Freezin for a Reason — Sure We Can Dear friend, My first job in New York City was canvassing for Planned Parenthood, between November of 2012 and April of 2013. I spent my first winter in NYC asking strangers on the street to support...

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Join us at Sure We Can on Tuesday for a volunteer day and open house! Come for a tour of our site, and stay to volunteer if you're able ⭐️ Sign up at bit.ly/swc-dec2

Stand Up for Sure We Can in 2025! YouTube video by Ryan Castalia

Stand with Sure We Can & NYC canners 💚

Go to 🔗 bit.ly/supportswc to make a donation today

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12/2 Sure We Can Volunteering Sign-up Tuesday, December 2nd from 11am-1pm at 219 McKibbin St, Brooklyn NY

December 2nd is also Giving Tuesday, so if you're not able to make it but still want to support us, consider making a donation to our year end fundraiser 💚 bit.ly/supportswc

Join us at Sure We Can on Tuesday for a volunteer day and open house! Come for a tour of our site, and stay to volunteer if you're able ⭐️ Sign up at bit.ly/swc-dec2

Simple Gratitude — Sure We Can Dear friend, It feels like the world has spun around more than a few times since last Thanksgiving. It’s harder than ever to make a general sense of gratitude feel authentic–platitudes wilt in the ...

🗞 November Newsletter 🗞

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We're 10% there! givingtuesday.mightycause.com/story/7hpuhg

Any lawmakers in Iowa who are against our bottle bill and find it "incredibly problematic"... the Iowa City Litter Crew would like to invite you to come pick up litter with us for a couple of months and tell us whether you feel the same. Bottle bills work. Fix them, don't undermine them.

We're disappointed by the anti-bottle bill comments from Kathryn Garcia, Hochul aid & former DSNY Commissioner.

What's incredibly problematic is the fact that the Hochul admin can't recognize the value of NY's most effective recycling system.

The bill works, & modernization would be a win for NY!

Last month, a team of our canners, staff, & board travelled to Vancouver to exchange with fellow members of the North American Alliance of Wastepickers (NAWPA): Binner's Project, Groundscore Association, & Coop Les Valoristes. A great week full of sharing ideas & building solidarity!

Stand up for NYC's canners and for Sure We Can by donating to help us raise $30,000 before the end of the year!
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The Future Is Ours To Shape — Sure We Can Dear friend, Today, New York City woke up to the smell of political transformation in the air, carrying with it the idea that a door may be opening to a new sense of atmosphere and emphasis; one wh...

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⭐️ Calling all volunteers! See you Friday 10-12! ♻️

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Sunday, October 19th, we're opening our doors for the Open House New York festival! We'll be giving tours from 12-4.

Check out our 16,000sqft facility where more over a million cans & bottles are redeemed monthly & get a glimpse into the work of canners.

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Thank you so much to our partners Voces Latinas, NAMI, and One Love Community Fridge for being a part of Sure We Can's first Wellness Fair! Special thanks to Hispanic Federation for the support through the Uplift Initiative.