Pepsi offering millions as grants for its Pepsi Refresh Project
February 2nd, 2010
Pepsi’s new Pepsi Refresh Project is willing to offer more than $20 million in grants this year to all who will registere their different projects on display at www.refresheverything.com. These projects mainly revolve round the communities and can be voted for the whole year. Pepsi Refresh Project was started on 13th January. Just within first 7 days of its commencement it has already received 1,000 submissinons. There is at least one person from every state of U. S. participating in the project.
Among the eleven pportunities to vote, on which grants will be recieved by the project, the first one is going to end on 28th February. So it is advisable to grab the opportunity quickly. This move of Pepsi is towards rewarding those who are concerned about helping and improving the social good not only in their community only but elsewhere too.
Demi Moore organises campaigns for GEMS – Girls Educational & Mentoring Services. He expressed his views on this project. He said that Pepsi Refresh Project will eneable those people who have the passion to make a better world around them by availing them the financial resources. He looks at the project as an innovative and creative move of Pepsi. He also added that being a part of this project is a great pleasure for him.
According to Pepsi in the month of February about $1 million will be granted as rewards. It also announced that the online winner of every month will recieve grants of $5,000 to $250,000. It stated that anyone can submit the ideas on its website and at the same time can also vote for others’ ideas too.
Today when we are facing economic hardships, more and more companies should come forward to take such steps. In U. S. Pepsi Refresh Project is appreciated by the people nationwide and they are also feling very grateful to Pepsi for this move. The people of U. S. also desire that this project should go on throughout the year.