The Advent GREENmark

Advent’s GREENmark is the pos­i­tive impact our orga­ni­za­tion strives to make on the world around us by being good stew­ards of our envi­ron­ment and its bless­ings. We pledge to offer green, prac­tice green and love peo­ple. We con­sider prod­ucts, planet and peo­ple as inte­gral parts of the envi­ron­ment and try to con­tribute to the sus­tain­abil­ity of each.

Being envi­ron­men­tally friendly is not always the eas­i­est or cheap­est way to go about busi­ness, but we believe it’s the right way. We rec­og­nize that like many peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions Advent has a long way to go until our GREENmark sur­passes our envi­ron­men­tal deple­tion, but to reach that day, we pledge to:

OFFER green. Advent will equip your orga­ni­za­tion to mar­ket with the envi­ron­ment in mind by offer­ing green mes­sag­ing options that will help your orga­ni­za­tion reduce, reuse and recy­cle. Whether at a trade show, in your own lobby, or dur­ing a spe­cial event, there is a host of eco-friendly options. Ask your expe­ri­en­tial mar­ket­ing expert for the environmentally-sound that fits your needs.

PRACTICE green. Our GREENmark is evolv­ing. Our first step to an eco-friendly work­place was imple­ment­ing a paper­less work­flow sys­tem. Next, our team started recy­cling the paper, card­board, plas­tics and cans we con­sume in our facil­ity as well as pur­chas­ing office prod­ucts made from recy­cled mate­ri­als. (Did you know you can buy a flash drive man­u­fac­tured out of recy­cled plas­tic?!) As we expand in this area, we plan to install ameni­ties that use fewer nat­ural resources such as low-flush toi­lets and motion-censored lights. If your orga­ni­za­tion has eco-friendly tips, please share them with us!

LOVE peo­ple. Advent takes our global cit­i­zen­ship seri­ously and wishes to live out our beliefs by cul­ti­vat­ing a cul­ture that “loves your neigh­bor as your­self.” We encour­age our employ­ees to give back to the com­mu­nity (local or global) if they feel called. We are so proud of the way our team mem­bers con­tribute on a per­sonal level. In fact they are what moti­vated us to do more as an orga­ni­za­tion. We share their efforts with you to brag on the great peo­ple we work with and in hope of inspir­ing you to give back in your community:

• Amanda Van Noort vol­un­teers with The Mix, a divi­sion of Fellowship Student Ministry, invest­ing in the lives of 7^th and 8^th grade stu­dents to bring them into a deeper rela­tion­ship with Christ and help them make a dif­fer­ence in their com­mu­nity and their schools.
• Chad Troup helps raise money for the Wayne Reed Christian Childcare Center, an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to the finan­cial, social and spir­i­tual devel­op­ment of Nashville’s low-income families.
• Larry Curtis leads a Celebrate Recovery pro­gram at the local women’s prison.
• Lee Cooke serves the Morant Bay, Jamaica com­mu­nity through the local church of Christ and assists Ciudad de Angeles with their children’s home in Cozumel, Mexico.
• Todd Austin works with Habitat for Humanity to build sim­ple, decent and afford­able hous­ing for peo­ple in need.
• Todd Cyphers vol­un­teers with Third Coast Sports in rais­ing money for their Faith Night.
• The last cou­ple years, our team has pro­vided items for the Youth Encouragement Services Christmas Store and cold-weather cloth­ing for the Campus for Human Development.

Advent is com­mit­ted to its GREENmark. This is who we strive to be.