Every day, our communities are powered by countless volunteers working in coordination
to provide needed care and support to our people and places. They are the unpaid
workforce of helpers whose service makes Broome County a better place to call home.
To celebrate and honor volunteerism in our community, the Klee Foundation created the
Volunteer Recognition Award. Each year, the Foundation honors a significantly impactful
volunteer-driven program, effort, or initiative that provides or has provided a lasting benefit
within Broome County. Recipients of the award also receive a $2,500 grant to further the work of their organization.
In 2025, the Binghamton Move Out Project received the Volunteer Recognition Award for their efforts to divert as many usable items as possible from the landfill and redistribute them into the community. What started in 2018 with a small group’s simple goal to reduce the waste generated during campus move-out season, has grown to a movement that has collected and redistributed more than 50,000 pounds of usable items to local nonprofits.