Hometown Heroes Award Program

Deadline: 
March 31, 2014

Is your group an environmental hero?

Earth Day Canada (EDC), in partnership with Mill Street Brewery and the RBCFoundation, is recognizing everyday eco-heroes who are doing extraordinary work to create greener communities across Canada through the Hometown Heroes Award Program.

This program recognizes and celebrates environmental leaders, groups and small businesses who foster meaningful, long-term community awareness and action.

If your group is accomplishing environmental changes or if you know a local environmental hero in your community, nominate them today!

Heroic candidates can win one of the following:

  • Individual Hometown Heroes Award— a $10,000 cash-prize to donate to a local environmental group/cause of their choice
  • Group Hometown Heroes Award— a $10,000 cash-prize to support their work
  • Small Business Hometown Heroes Award— a $5,000 cash-prize that must be used by the business to make an operational change that results in the business lessening their environmental impact, and permission from EDC to uset he award and the EDC logo for one year to help market and promote the business and/or an approved product.

The nomination deadline for this year’s program is March 31, 2014. For more information, or to nominate your group, a neighbour, or small business from your community, please visit earthday.ca/hometown.

If you have any questions, please contact Linda Li-Chee-Ming, Awards & Recognition Programs Lead, at 416-599-1991 extn. 113 (1-888-283-2784 extn.113) or at [email protected].