Eligibility Criteria
Individual Hometown Heroes Award
Earth Day Canada will consider individual candidates who
- Demonstrate outstanding environmental leadership, commitment and achievements in their communities
- Carry out voluntary, not-for-profit environmental efforts, outside of the candidate’s employment activities, with notable accomplishments that have resulted in continuous, long-term and sustainable impacts within local communities
- Engage, educate and/or empower community members to support a healthier environment
- Focus their environmental efforts in Canada
- Are Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada (landed immigrants)
- Are not an elected official (applicable to all levels of Government)
- Have completed and submitted the Hometown Heroes nomination package, including all forms and supporting documentation recieved by March 30, 2012.
Earth Day Canada will consider group candidates who
- Operate as a registered not-for-profit or charitable organization, volunteer group or school
- Demonstrate outstanding environmental leadership, commitment and achievements in local communities
- Carry out not-for-profit environmental efforts with notable accomplishments that have resulted in continuous, long-term and sustainable impacts within local communities
- Engage, educate and/or empower community members to support a healthier environment
- Focus their environmental efforts in Canada
- Are not fully funded and delivered by any level of government
- Have completed and submitted the Hometown Heroes nomination package, including all forms and supporting documentation recieved by March 30, 2012.
Small Business Hometown Heroes Award
Earth Day Canada will consider small business candidates who
- Are Canadian-owned and operated, and have operated as a registered business for at least two years
- Carry out their business locally and regionally.
- Demonstrate outstanding environmental leadership, innovation and benefits beyond their products and/or services
- Prioritize long-term environmental planning and/or commitment as an integral part of their business model and/or operations that have resulted in positive sustainable impacts
- Are engaged in internal initiatives that incorporate environmental best practices, resource conservation and green living from supply chain management to employee engagement programs
- Serve as community ambassadors, influencing and engaging suppliers, customers and the general public to educate and/or empower them to support a healthier environment
- Are not government or quasi-government entities
- Have completed and submitted the Hometown Heroes nomination package, including all forms and supporting documentation recieved by March 30, 2012.
