Monday is a game of catch-up from weekend sales and other business. Eco Encore functions like two organizations—it’s an online retailer and a nonprofit, and carries the responsibilities of both.
Traffic streams by on the Alaska Way Viaduct across the street while Alex, operations assistant, lists books and CDs by ISBN and UPC code. He’s got boxes still to go. This morning he completed a mail run of 60 items, which is more than double recent runs after a computer glitch in the sales system was fixed. Mia, operations manager, is on the website updating new staff profiles and posting a blog entry about the new partnership with 41pounds.org.
The business of Eco Encore is in large part getting book and other media donations, and that’s what intern Isabella’s been at the past week. She sent mass emails to academic departments around the UW and got an exciting response from somebody in the Psychology department with boxes of texts and other books to donate, hoping for pickup arrangements. The end of the school year could mean an avalanche of valuable textbooks and Isabella’s pounding the pavement to get them.
By one o’clock Mia’s the only one left in the office; Alex has finished his day and Isabella’s off to class. Across the street behind chainlink fences, backhoes and tractors move gravel across the flat dirt construction site. The progress they make is clear every day.
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