Jewelers for Japan

Step 1: Display your “Jewelers for Japan” poster in your store or store window showing your customers that you are a participating retailer. Click here to download our logo. See usage example here. (Optional)

Step 2:  Collect donated gold and silver by weighing the amount of jewelry customer brings in and specify karat when possible. Have two collection containers. One for gold; one for silver. We suggest adding whatever your store will be donating as well, to this collection container.

Step 3: Give acknowledgement of appreciation slip to customer for jewelry collected for The Red Cross through Jewelers for Japan.  (Optional)

Step 4: Print and completely fill out Packing slip to include in shipment. Send the scrap gold and silver to:

Rio Grande
Returns
Attn: JFJ
7500 Bluewater Road NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87121-1962

Click here to view the Rio Grande packing info

IF YOU WANT TO DO MORE:

Step 5:  Use your social media, email lists, and other forms of outreach to your customers to invite them to make donations themselves.  (See sample of Facebook posts, and email text here.)

Step 6: Send a press release to your local newspaper(s) announcing the Jewelers for Japan fundraising drive.  (See sample press release here.)

Step 7: Consider hosting a simple after-work wine and cheese fundraising event at your store.

Step 8: Take the unwanted gold and silver jewelry and send to the participating refiner, as in Step 4.

Step 9: At the end of the 90 day period, Jewelers for Japan will issue a statement declaring the total dollar value raised under the program, along with a suggested press release to send again to your local paper, and post on your social media channels.  We will also do what we can to provide information on how the money was used, and the difference it made.

REMEMBER: MOTHER NATURE IS POWERFUL.  BUT SO ARE WE.    JEWELERS FOR JAPAN!