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Pepsi has been asking non-profits, businesses, and everyday people like you and me to submit ideas for their Refresh Project, ideas that will have a positive impact on the world and our local communities. You can go to their web site, Pepsi Refresh Project, and submit your idea. They are accepting 1000 ideas each month. On February 1st, voting began for the favorite ideas. You can vote for 10 ideas each day and you can even vote for your own if you submit one. Pepsi is giving away $1,300,000 each month to fund these ideas.

I first learned about Pepsi’s intention to give grants in four money categories, $5,000, $25,000, $50,000, and $250,000, in a newsletter I had from SNAP, the Spay Neuter Assistance Program, which has clinics in Texas, but tries to educate nationwide about the pet overpopulation problem. One of their catch phrases is that “No-birth is the first step to No-Kill.”  To learn more about them, visit: www.snapus.org

SNAP is participating in the Pepsi Refresh Project at the $50,000 level. They want to spend that money on a “pilot project to help community cats.” Community cats, by SNAP’s definition, are “cats that have no single identifiable home, but which are not necessarily feral either. They are often cats that wander from house to house, saying hello and being fed by good-hearted souls along the way.” SNAP plans to help these cats, and other ferals, get spayed and neutered “so that they remain good neighbors and don’t contribute to the overpopulation problem.”

All you have to do to vote for SNAP’s project to help community kitties is go to the web site and register to vote. You vote every day for the projects you like and you can vote for up to 10 projects daily. SNAP’s project is in the running for the month of April, so vote daily for them between April 1 and April 30.  

To vote for SNAP: Spay and Neuter 850 Community Cats

Each month, Pepsi will fund 10 winners each at the $5,000, $25,000, and $50,000 levels and two winners at the $250,000 level. Projects in the different prize levels are not in competition with each other. But within each prize level, they are competing, so if you really like SNAP’s project, only vote for it in the $50,000 category. You can also search for projects to vote for in a number of categories including health, arts and culture, food and shelter, the planet, neighborhoods, and education. Additionally, you can search for the projects that are the “current leaders” and for projects “near you” in your area.

Help animals by voting for projects that will be funded in the Pepsi Refresh Project to make their lives better.

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