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What are PIPs?

CU PIPs is sunsetting

Spring 2021 is the last semester to take advantage of PIPs Rewards at CU Boulder. May 15, 2021 will be the last day to earn PIPs. July 1, 2021 is the final day to redeem or donate your PIPs.

Any unredeemed PIPs will go to the PIPs for School Scholarship fund.

PIPs Rewards Mobile App

PIPs are Positive Impact Points

PIPs are Positive Impact Points, a ‘currency of change.’ They are earned and redeemed for verifiable daily life behaviors that benefit the planet, community and personal health. There are many ways to earn PIPs throughout campus for students, staff, and faculty!

actions to pips to rewards graphic with arrows

You can earn PIPs for:

Bike sharing with B-Cycle
Riding the HOP bus
Recycling your mobile or laptop, and buying ‘new to you’ with Gazelle 
Shopping lightly used and vintage clothing with Etsy and ThredUp 
Volunteering on campus and with local non-profits 
Attending CU events  
Refilling your water bottle  at campus locations
Participating in contests, challenges and games

Questions? Justask@pipsrewards.com

2020-2021 Earn Options

During this time, PIPs can be earned on campus and at home for:

Refilling a water bottle
Recycling
Composting
Biking

with these QR codes:

At-home PIPs QR codes

PIPs can also be earned for:

Creating a Handshake Profile (allow up to 1 month from profile creation)
FitWell Virtual Classes at The REC
Virtual Team Building at The REC
Trivia questions and contests (in app)
Refer-a-Friend (in app)

How to gift or donate your PIPs

Here are the options for gifting, donating or releasing PIPs: donate PIPs button

1. Gift Your PIPs to another user at pipsrewards.com when signed in with your Identikey

2. Gift Your PIPs to a student's PIPs for School scholarship account on the pipsrewards.com dashboard when signed in with your Identikey

3. Donate your PIPs to the PIPs Education Fund on the app or the website, one can donate your PIPs to the PIPs Education Fund which awards the matching grants to students who convert their PIPs into PIPs for School scholarship grants. On the App, click on Donate in the Main Menu, then All. On on the website at pipsrewards.com/donate

4. Release one's PIPs back in the CU PIPs pool - faculty and staff may want to simply put their PIPs back into the CU PIPs budget for earning (again) by other users. There is no user facing tool for this, but it is easy for the PIPs Team to do this on the back end. Any one who would like to release their PIPs back to the CU PIPs pool can contact adrienne@pipsrewards.com.

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