Eligibility Criteria

• Encourage elementary and secondary schools in Ontario to become involved in projects that benefit the environment and the greater good of your community
• Funding will support a school class or school group project that will contribute in a positive way to a healthier environment.
• Funding is to be used to support a school environmental project and/or be used to provide equipment or supplies that the school requires to proceed with environmental initiatives and/or a combination of both.

To qualify, schools must comply with the following:

• Must be a registered elementary or high school in Ontario
• Must submit application by March 1, 2010 (submissions will be evaluated on a first-come first-serve approach)
• Must have approval from class teacher/ project leader and school principal
• Must register online at www.greenapplegrants.ca
• Must meet all criteria as outlined below
• Must execute the project/ program by June 1, 2010
• Eligibility is subject to change without notice
  

• Environmental initiatives can take place within the school environment, outside on school grounds or within the school community
  • i.e. Purchase of new recycling bins, planting trees on school property or weekly clean-up of community play ground
• All environmental initiatives must support at least one of the following environmental goals:
  • Beautification Projects: For example, planting trees, shrubs and flowers on school property
  • Climate: For example, keeping windows closed to restrict green house gas emissions
  • Community Clean-up: For example, clean up a local park or river bank
  • Ecosystems: For example, restore a habitat through clean-up or re-establishing river flow
  • Energy Conservation: For example, turning off lights and computers when not in use
  • Environmental Education: For example, how natural environments function, i.e. human beings’ relationship to the environment
  • Sustainable Development: For example, build a rain garden at your school
  • Waste Management – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: For example, holding waste free lunches
  • Water Conservation: For example, audits of water usage
  • Biodiversity: For example, assist the re-vegetation of a local creek
• Environmental initiative must support school curriculum criteria (see www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum)
  
• Must submit application by March 1, 2010

• Applications must be completed online at www.greenapplegrants.ca by March 1, 2010
• The Green Apple School Program concludes on June 1, 2010
• Applications will require the following detail:
  • Describe in 3-5 bullet points your idea 
  • Briefly describe how you execute the idea
  • What is the positive impact on the environment?
  • Who is involved in the project? Class, school, community?
  • Are the results of your project measurable? If so, how?
  • How does this project support school curriculum criteria?

• Funding will be paid directly to the selected school to offset expenses to support the environmental initiative 
• Metro will invest $1 million per province to support the Company’s new environmental initiatives. Grants worth $1,000 each will be awarded to selected applicants
• Any one school can receive a maximum of two Green Apple Grants in one school year. Two separate environmental initiatives must be submitted in order to be considered for two separate grants 
• All funding must support school environmental initiatives that meet criteria and class/school must provide a Summary Report at completion of project
• If a grant is awarded, a cheque payable to the school will be presented to the Prinicpal by your local Metro Store Manager. The Store Manager will contact you to make arrangements for the presentation
• Grants will be announced and posted on www.greenapplegrants.ca on three occasions; late October, early January 2010, and early March 2010.

• If a grant is awarded, a one page Summary Report must be submitted outlining the final project with photos. These may be used for Metro communication purposes*. The Summary Report is due no later than 30 days after the project is completed or by June 1, 2010.

• The pictures must be original, free of retained rights, and the participant should give full permission to Metro Richelieu Inc to publish those pictures on the Green Apple School Program website and to the Facebook page.

• Photos will be the property of Metro Richelieu Inc. It is the responsibility of the teacher/ project leader to ensure that the parents have signed the waiver before photos are posted on the website. Please fax in a copy of the signed waiver to Green Apple School Program Committee 416-234-6585 when you send us your Summary Report, no later than June 1, 2010.
  

• Subject to Metro Green Apple School Program Committee review and approval.
• The decision of the Metro Green Apple School Program Committee is final.