Earth Team with Advantage Services
With over 40,000 visitors, performers, and staff moving throughout the site during the four days of the Festival, our Earth Team has a big job to do. From managing waste bins to keeping tables tidy, as well as general site cleanliness, an event like the Festival just simply wouldn’t happen without them.
The Utah Arts Festival Earth Team is staffed by Advantage Services, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to enhance recovery and independence for people with mental health, disadvantaged status, and other life challenges with gainful employment and training.
Advantage Services maintains a minimum of 70% of their workforce having a disability, either mental or physical, and 80% living in Low to Moderate Income (LMI) levels.
WasteLess Solutions Food Diversion Partnership
The vendors in Food Row at the Festival work hard to feed and nourish every festival goer - sometimes, a little extra is left at the end of each day, though. We partner with WasteLess Solutions to redirect food remaining at the end of each day, aiming to both reduce the amount of food waste that the Festival can potentially create, and help deliver meals to our neighbors dealing with food insecurity.
WasteLess Solutions’s mission is to build a community that works together to provide sustenance and promote a healthy planet by preventing edible food waste. They work to divert and rescue existing edible food and get it to the food insecure in our community, along with educating and inspiring Utahns about their mission.
Building Careers with Job Corps
A festival of our size means big infrastructure, and the skilled help we need to both raise and strike the Utah Arts Festival comes from Job Corps. Job Corps provides education and practical work experience to young people looking to kickstart their careers, and we couldn’t provide the major programming that we do without them.
