Making a difference in the lives of others doesn’t always require a huge sacrifice of time and money. A case in point: Donating unused toiletries from your hotel room to a group like REVERB (reverb.org), a nonprofit that aims to make the world a better place. Hotel toiletries like these are going to landfill while millions of the world’s poorest people who lack access to proper sanitation could really use them. Our production coordinator, Ali Vatter, had already started a hotel toiletry donation system on previous tours so it was easy for the crew to follow suit as REVERB began taking over this responsibility. There is a box in catering where we can all dump our stash of goodies and they will be donated at whichever local shelter we are nearest when the box is full. This costs me nothing, takes no time out of my schedule and benefits someone that I will never know.
—Chris Lose, from “LD-at-Large,” PLSN, Feb. 2019, page 76
