Community
Elite Earth-friendly Cleaners supports a number of Vancouver Island-based organizations, focusing on Environmental, Social Justice and Healthy Communities.
Elite Earth-Friendly Dry Cleaners is now a member of Greenpeace International
In April we donated 10% of our gross revenues to The Land Conservancy
For each new SPUD customer, we donate 20% of their order to Veins of Life Watershed Society or to the Comox Valley Watershed Society
In partnership with SPUD, Elite Earth-friendly Cleaners is sponsoring the UVic Social Justice Film Series, from September 2005 to April 2006. This series includes guest lecturers and a monthly film, open to both the public and the UVic community. Find out more using the UVic Events Calendar.
In October, 2005, we supported BC Government Employees Union's "Make Poverty History" project by cleaning a mountain of blankets and coats for the Open Door for free.
We support Wear 2 Start, an innovative and unique program established to outfit unemployed, economically disadvantaged women for job interviews by offering free drycleaning.
We are business members of the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition
We endorse and support the Quality of Life Challenge of the Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria.
We support the National Ovarian Cancer Association by hanging information tags on every outgoing order each September, which is Ovarian Cancer Month. Learn more about "The Whispering Disease" at www.ovariancanada.org or www.ovariancancercanada.ca We sell "Think Ovarian" bracelets at our store, and donate all the funds to the BC Cancer Agency.
 We were awarded the 2005 Ethics in Action Award for Environmental Excellence (Small Business)
Read about it here / Learn more visit www.ethicsinaction.com
We were also awarded the CRD 2005 Ecostar Award for Sustainability.
Read about it here / Learn more visit www.crd.bc.ca
Elite Earth-friendly Cleaners is a member of the Victoria Values-based Business Network.
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