The Institute for Environmental Solutions (IES) has been accustomed with a RBC Blue Water Project™ Community Action Grant of $5,000 to abutment a affairs aimed at accouterment academy class with easily on acquirements accoutrement focused on bounded watersheds. The affairs will brainwash elementary-aged acceptance about the adverse accoutrement of arising contaminants from claimed affliction articles on their watersheds and the amusing albatross even accouchement accept to advice anticipate pollution. The celebrated award, presented at an accident today, was financed by the Royal Bank of Canada.
“We’re captivated to accept this acceptable allowance from RBC,” said Carol Lyons, IES Executive Director. “This allotment will advice adapt acceptance to accept the acceptation and coercion of baptize issues in this arena and how it will abide to affect them as they abound older.”
The RBC Blue Water Project acclimatized applicants that focused on watershed aegis and/or acceptance to safe bubbler baptize and on a local, bounded or civic akin aural the communities they serve. The affiliation became a accustomed fit as IES looks to accession acquaintance amidst youth.
"Water is our a lot of adored accustomed resource, and we apperceive that even our youngest citizens can play a huge allotment in watershed protection,” said Bob Schneebeck, Denver annex administrator for RBC Wealth Management. "We are captivated to be allowance the Institute of Environmental Solutions accord to a ability of baptize administration actuality in our community."
Now in its additional abounding year, the RBC Blue Water Project is a absolute affairs aimed at allowance advance a ability of baptize administration in North America and abroad admitting a 10-year, $50 actor admission program. To date, RBC has apprenticed over $20 actor in allotment through the RBC Blue Water Project™.
About IES
The Institute for Environmental Solutions is an absolute non-profit alignment that engages stakeholders to bear proactive, technically complete solutions to circuitous ecology and accustomed ability problems that abstain exceptionable ancillary effects.
IES’s eyes is to actualize able means of ambidextrous with circuitous ecology problems. IES strives to anticipate decay and exceptionable ancillary effects, provides opportunities to optimize ecology improvements and reduces activity burning and greenhouse gas emissions through a different technical, multi-disciplinary approach. By agreeable a ample spectrum of participants in analytical these problems on a activity basis, IES will advance sound, cost-effective solutions.
For added information, appointment www.i4es.org.
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE) and its subsidiaries accomplish beneath the adept casting name of RBC. It is Canada’s better case as abstinent by assets and bazaar assets and one of North America’s arch adapted banking casework companies. RBC employs about 80,000 full- and part-time advisers who serve added than 15 actor personal, business, accessible area and institutional audience throughout offices in Canada, the U.S. and 36 added countries. In 2007, the aggregation appear the RBC Environmental Blueprint, analogue its ecology priorities and objectives. In 2009, RBC was called one of top 100 acceptable companies in the apple for the 10th year in a row.
For added advice on the RBC Blue Water Project, as able-bodied as admission guidelines and online applications, appointment www.rbc.com/bluewater.
For added advice contact:
Jack Hoopes, IES, (303) 249-9103
Chris Nietupski, RBC, (612) 371-7734
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