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Dr. Rony Delgarde
Professor, UNLV
Location: Las Vegas, NV United States
Joined: Sep 7th, 2013

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Rony Delgarde migrated to the U.S. ten years ago from Haiti with $5 and a holy bible in his pocket. His journey as a new immigrant is of courage and inspiration. He attended college and earned an MBA. Delgarde is an Inventory Operation Specialist and Management Consultant by profession. He supported efforts on speaking out for the poor internationally in the following areas Housing Rehabilitation, Global Food Security Initiative, Preventing Child Trafficking, Empowering Women, HIV/AIDS, Education and Technology. As a community leader he is diligent, dedicated and passionate in giving back to the community and volunteers for numerous nonprofit organizations and a Mentor for the Gwinnett Public Schools Program. In 2002, he cofounded the Volunteer Interpreters Patrols recruiting 200 bilingual volunteers to ride with Gwinnett County Police and Sheriff Officers assisting crime victims and witnesses, who do not speak English.
Rony knew paint was limited in Haiti and his interest about how paint is disposed led him to start Global Paint for Charity, Inc. The first time he landed at Miami International Airport he was captivated by the colorfully painted buildings he saw. “This proved a lot of paint available in the U.S.”

March 2010 he visited Kenya and Uganda and was surprised by the amount of unpainted schools, orphanages and homes realized the need to beautify global housing projects in the region. He returned to the U.S, Rony Delgarde founded Global Paint for Charity an Atlanta based nonprofit organization. The mission is to recycle leftover paint from residents and businesses country wide consolidates it and donates it to vulnerable individuals in developing countries around the world.

Delgarde has collected paint of all major top brands including Ralph Laurent, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, Behr, Glidden and Valspar from residents and businesses from coast to coast. So far, Global Paint for Charity recovered over 100,000 gallons of paint which could have ended in landfills instead he donated the paint for projects in Kenya, Haiti, Mexico, Honduras, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Uganda. He recently returned from Equatorial Guinea, where he donated 200 gallons of paint to renovate an orphanage for children who lost their parent to HIV/AIDS , and sent 4,400 gallons of Latex paint valued at $32,000 to Central America. Mr. Delgarde hopes to soon collect and ship 20,000 gallons to support reconstruction and development projects for earthquake victims in Haiti. They have inspired businesses and residents from 25 states across the U.S to donate leftover paint as well as monetary contributions which help to offset cost of shipping. They are expanding and recently added more collection sites nationally and internationally. They partners with Salvation Army, Goodwill, Home Depot, Sherwin Williams in some areas and Waste Management Agencies in Atlanta.

Mr. Delgarde has the assistance of a board of directors consisting of small business owners, government officials, religious leaders and veterans. Students from Georgia Tech have partnered with GPC to design a machine that can make 3,000 gallons of paint per day. They are working to raise the $95,000 the cost to build machine. Also, he has been working with the ProBono Partnership of Atlanta on various legal researches from environmental requirements and legal documentations for the organization. Since they began this partnership, the ProPono staffs have worked with various high profile Legal Firms in Atlanta (for instance, King and Spalding Law Firm, Baker Donelson, Jones Day Law Firm, Kilpatrick Stockton and the Home Depot legal team) and gained the support of many amazingly talented Lawyers to draft contracts and sometimes conduct researches to make sure he has the proper structures in place to grow his organization.
For more on Mr. Rony S. Delgarde,
Links

http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/p2p-global-paint-for-charity/vCBTbD/

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/16/world/iyw-global-paint-project/index.html

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/global-paint-for-charity-recycles-leftover-paint-i/nRMGy/

http://norcross.patch.com/groups/breast-cancer-awareness/p/painting-the-world-red

www.globalPaints.org | www.facebook.com/globalPaints |www.twitter.com/globalPaints
ronydelgarde@globalpaints.org

Education (request update)

Strayer University class of 2007

Undergrad Major: Health Information Management

Claim To Fame:

2013 Allstate Champion for Good Featured on CNN Impact Your Wold Featured on ABC People to People Has distributed paints to renovate orphanages and schools for children who lost their parent to HIV/AIDS in Africa. Shipped 20k gallons of paint to support construction projects for earthquake victims in Haiti. sent 4400 gallons of paint valued @ $32,000 to paint schools, orphanages, churches & homes in Central America. Donated 500 gallons to Habitat Restore International to support their effort in our community.

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I currently work with UNLV as Professor
I have years of experience working in the Environmental industry.

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