Vote To Support PA Projects In Tom's Of Maine Program

Tom's of Maine is now conducting online voting to pick 5 out of 50 environmental, health and community organizations for $20,000 scholarships.
Three Pennsylvania environmental projects are entered in the contest--
Uptown Education and Beautification Project
Pennsylvania Resources Council, Pittsburgh, PA
The Project: Clean Uptown! PRC's goal is to improve and expand community involvement in beautification and recycling efforts in Pittsburgh's Uptown neighborhood through a number of one day events. With vacant lot cleanups, recycling collections, and composting classes, participants will walk away with a take home tool for their own homes, enhancing where they live.
Grow South Side
United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Scranton, PA
The Project: Teach residents to grow their own food through locally produced earth boxes and raised beds by offering 2 workshops on growing produce in earth boxes and 2 workshops on constructing and gardening in raised beds; hold a neighborhood food event to display and share produce and demonstrate how food from the garden can be prepared nutritiously.
Eyesores to Assets: Reinventing a Vacant Lot
Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership, Philadelphia, PA
The Project: We will transform a 5,000 square foot vacant lot in an underserved Philadelphia neighborhood into a community meeting space, outdoor classroom and rain garden in order to reduce stormwater runoff, foster consciousness of watershed health, replace a dangerous eyesore with a vital community asset and inspire positive change in a developing neighborhood.
To vote for your favorite, go to the Toms of Maine Environment webpage and just click.