Subject: Clorox’s School Grant Programs
Know any schools that are looking for some extra green?
If so, our Clorox clients have two school grant opportunities that may be of interest to you and the teachers, parents and students in your lives. For many schools around the country, back-to-school this year is a lesson in economics they’d rather not have. Education budgets have been cut nationwide and valuable school programs are being hit hard. Pitching in to help is the idea powering these two programs, Clorox’s Power A Bright Future and Green Works’ Walk To School Challenge.
Clorox’s Power A Bright Future
Power A Bright Future grant program aims to support school programs that provide opportunities for students to learn, play and create. Today, people across the country can nominate school programs for a chance to receive a $50,000 grand-prize grant or one of three $20,000 grants from the Clorox Company to help provide critically needed resources to diminishing school programs. To nominate a program, visit www.powerabrightfuture.com before September 27, 2010 and upload a photo and a short summary of how the grant would be used.
Following the online nomination period, the final decision is up to America. From October 5 through November 1, 2010, the public will have the opportunity to vote online, www.powerabrightfuture.com, for the program they believe will make the biggest difference at a school.
For more information about the Power A Bright Future grant program, including official contest rules and entry guidelines, those interested can visitwww.powerabrightfuture.com.
Green Works’ Walk To School Challenge
Parents everywhere have wistful memories of it. Often uphill. Usually both ways. Now, the makers of Green Works® Naturally Derived Cleaners are teaming up with the National Center for Safe Routes to School and the Sierra Club to encourage parents to join their kids in this definitive childhood moment. Walking to school!
October is International Walk to School Month. During that month, elementary and middle school students and their families can help their schools win one of five $5,000 grants – simply by walking or bicycling to school. Parents are invited to sign up online for the Walk to School Challenge atwww.facebook.com/greenworks, and log their families’ walking or bicycling trips on behalf of their school. The five schools with the highest levels of participation will be eligible to win a $5,000 grant. Frequent walkers and bicyclists can also earn individual prizes, ranging from green shoelaces to reusable water bottles.
Walking to school provides fun quality time for families, promotes group physical activity and reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Every step counts!
For more information, or to sign up, visit www.facebook.com/greenworks
While Ketchum employees and their families are not eligible to participate, feel free to pass this information along to anyone you know who may be interested.
Thank you,
The Clorox Crew
