CRNI is governed by a Board of Directors, made up primarily of volunteers from the membership base.
The Board is responsible for ensuring that the charity is well-managed and abides by its charitable aims. The Board appoints the Network Coordinator, who is responsible for managing the organisation on a day to day basis and reports to the Board at regular CRNI Board Meetings.
The following outlines the current CRNI Directors and the member organisations that they represent:
Emma is a passionate storyteller with a keen interest in communicating social impact in dynamic, accessible and meaningful ways. She has dedicated her career to the non-profit sector in Ireland and Canada, developing her project and relationship management skills with a number of diverse stakeholders. Emma has experiences as a volunteer and an employee across many non-profit organisations specialising in fundraising, advocacy and social impact.
A Dublin native, Emma has been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community since 2017, a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change in their cities and communities. In 2015, Emma was selected for the Washington Ireland Program and in recent years has received nominations for North American awards in healthcare philanthropy. Emma enjoys digital storytelling and has a BSc. in Multimedia from DCU.
Emma can be contacted at [email protected].
Christine advises environmental organisations on marketing, fundraising and research. In addition to her work with CRNI, Christine’s experience in the sector includes her work as a Philanthropy Writer, Corporate and Foundation Relations with The Nature Conservancy and as a consultant to the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Agriterra and the Danish Food & Agriculture Council/SEGES, the Ryan Institute at NUI Galway, Burrenbeo Trust and Irish Seed Savers. Christine holds a Masters of Science in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (MScCCAFS), Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Bachelors in Economics and is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE).
Christine can be contacted at [email protected].
Orla is a passionate environmentalist and brings a wealth of knowledge from working within the circular economy. She comes to us from the Cloth Nappy library Ireland where she worked as the Communications and Marketing Manager for both the library Itself and the Earth Baby Fair,Ireland’s largest eco baby expo! She was also a digital media consultant for the Conscious Cup campaign and briefly sat on their Board of Management. Orla holds a Primary Degree in Art from WIT and has just completed a BSc. in Multimedia with First class Honours from DCU. As part of her final year research project and in her role as project manager and primary researcher she developed a prototype of a mobile app that uses augmented reality and bespoke project management features. The purpose of which aids community groups to plan, plant and grow native species, encouraging biodiversity to flourish. More recently she has co-founded a small media production company where she produced several short documentaries for the EPA and LAWPRO about the importance of communities working together to re-wet the bogs.
Orla is from Dublin 12 but currently lives in North Kildare with her young son. She is a founding member of Zero Waste Maynooth and over the past couple of years she has adopted a zero waste lifestyle within her household. Orla is an avid macro photographer, and is happiest wandering through forests and fields or across the bogs taking pictures of tiny creatures in their habitat” the results of which earned her an Arts Bursary from DCU.
Orla can be contacted at [email protected].
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CRNI supports its members and works to mainstream reuse thanks to core funding provided by the EPA under the Circular Economy Programme.
For more information about the programme see here.
CRNI received funding from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications through the Circular Economy Innovation Grant Scheme to carry our the next phase of the ReMark project.
For more information about the project see here.
CRNI is leading an EPA Green Enterprise project Circular Textiles, which will test the impact of three different separate collection systems for textiles and explore how we could manage the additional quantity of textiles that are collected. This project will be concluded in 2022.
For more information about the project see here.
CRNI is the all island representative body for community based reuse, recycling and waste prevention organisations. We are funded by the EPA under the National Waste Prevention Programme and through membership contributions. CRNI is a proud member of the European RREUSE network.
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