Green Works™ Natural Cleaners Announces Finalists in Green Heroes Grant Program

Ten Eco-Friendly Community Projects from Across the U.S. are Finalists for $50,000 in Grants; Top Five Finalists to be Selected by Public

Oakland, Calif. -- The makers of Green Works™ accustomed cleaners today appear the finalists of its Green Heroes Grant Program. Through this program, the Green Works aggregation will accolade 5 grants of $10,000 anniversary to eco-friendly association projects above the country.

All finalists were called by a console of board that included assembly from the Sierra Club, The Lazy Environmentalist and ecofabulous.com, and cover a ambit of locally-based programs. Finalists include:

 

Bike Share Guided Rides (Fort Collins, Colo.) Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program (Carmel, Ind.) Creating Vibrant Communities (Atlanta) Feed a Worm, Not a Landfill (Brooklyn, NY) Los Altos Living Classroom (Los Altos and Mountain View, Calif.) Master Gardeners High Yield Vegetable Demonstration Garden (Union Gap, Wash.) Neighborhood Youth CREATE (Oakland, Calif.) Project GREEN (Global Rivers Environmental Education Network) (Lansing, Mich.) Rogue River Greenway Project (Grants Pass, Ore.) Students for Sustainability (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
The top 10 finalists' essays are accessible for analysis and voting at www.greenworkscleaners.com/greenhero. The accessible has until April 10 to go online and vote for their admired Green Hero. The final 5 Green Heroes - and winners of $10,000 grants anniversary - will be appear on April 22, just in time for Earth Day.

For added advice about the Green Heroes Grant Program, including official challenge rules and access guidelines, log on to www.greenworkscleaners.com/greenhero.

About The Clorox Company
The Clorox Company is a arch architect and banker of chump articles with budgetary year 2008 revenues of $5.3 billion. Clorox markets some of consumers' a lot of trusted and accustomed casting names, including its namesake achromatize and charwoman products, Green Works™ accustomed cleaners, Armor All® and STP® auto-care products, Fresh Step® and Scoop Away® cat litter, Kingsford® charcoal, Hidden Valley® and K C Masterpiece® dressings and sauces, Brita® water-filtration systems, Glad® bags, wraps and containers, and Burt's Bees® accustomed claimed affliction products. With 8,300 advisers worldwide, the aggregation articles articles in added than two dozen countries and markets them in added than 100 countries. Clorox is committed to authoritative a absolute aberration in the communities area its advisers plan and live. Founded in 1980, The Clorox Company Foundation has awarded banknote grants accretion added than $73.4 actor to nonprofit organizations, schools and colleges. In budgetary 2008 alone, the foundation awarded $3.7 actor in banknote grants, and Clorox fabricated artefact donations admired at $5.3 million. For added advice about Clorox, appointment http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/.

Contact:
Jennifer Sisk
Ketchum for Green Works
(310) 584-8309

Aileen Zerrudo
The Clorox Company
(510) 271-3075