The S.W.A.P. Team was a community driven non-profit I volunteered at for over five years, acting as an operations VP helping to organize city-wide clothing swap pick ups and events. 

Entirely driven through volunteer work, its mission was to divert textiles from landfills and give back to the community through clothing swap events and donations. I worked closely with Aleece Germano, the founder who created it as a turn-key service, entirely sustained by volunteers during the initial rise of the sharing economy. 

Under the banner “Take off your clothes” we helped community leaders organize several city-wide clothing swap events for one-to-one item exchanges in over 10 cities in North America including NYC, Montreal, Toronto and Calgary. I oversaw the logistics and organization. The first event in Calgary received 196 participants, saw 4147 items swapped and 1060 items donated. This was a half-day event.