How to Start a Step of Love Chapter:

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Starting a Step of Love chapter is simple! Follow these steps to build your local team, connect with donors, and start making an impact.

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1. Choose Your Area

Decide what city, school, or community your chapter will serve.

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2. Build Your Team

Start with your friends, family, classmates, coworkers, or anyone else who wants to volunteer and make a difference.

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3. Find a Hotel Donor

Look for hotels in your area and reach out to ask if they have items they would be willing to donate instead of throw away.

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4. Find a Nonprofit Partner

Connect with a local nonprofit that could benefit from the items your chapter will create or collect.

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5. Decide What You'll Make

Work with your nonprofit partner to figure out what they need. Then decide how your volunteers can reuse or upcycle the donated items.

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6. Plan Your First Volunteer Day

Choose a date, location, project, and list of supplies needed. Invite your volunteer team to participate.

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7. Collect & Create

Pick up the hotel donations, sort the materials, and have your volunteers turn them into something useful.

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8. Give Back

Deliver the finished items to your nonprofit partner and see the impact your chapter made!

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9. Track Your Impact

Keep track of:

• Hotel donations

• Number of volunteers

• Volunteer hours

• Items upcycled

• Items donated

• Nonprofits served

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10. Keep Going!

Build more hotel partnerships, grow your volunteer team, work with more nonprofits, and host regular projects.

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The Step of Love Model

Find a Hotel → Build a Volunteer Team → Collect → Upcycle → Donate → Repeat