Carpool Week 2011

Carpool Week is a chance to get rewarded for carpooling. This year there are four Carpool Week activities to choose from. Participating in any of these activities will enter you into our random draw for great Carpool Week prizes* (see list below). Our 2011 activities include:

• Register: If you are not currently registered with Carpool.ca, please Register, create a commuter profile and search for carpool partners.
• Re-Visit & Search: If you are already registered with Carpool.ca, please log-in and search for new carpool matches. As the database grows, so does the potential for matching. Check regularly for new matches or add a second trip - perhaps you would like to carpool to an event or weekly activity.
• Share a Story: Do you have a Carpool Story that you would like to share? Share it with us so that we might inspire others to consider carpooling.
• Trip Tracker: Are you concerned about the environment and your environmental footprint? Use our new Trip Tracker and calculate the savings achieved by reducing trips.

This year’s randomly awarded Carpool Week prizes include:
3 iPads * 6 Kindle Readers * 6 GPS Navigation Systems * $3,900 in Fuel Cards
Follow us on Twitter or Facebook and play ‘Carpool Trivia’ and/or ‘Carpool Tag’ to win additional Carpool Week prizes!

* Must be 18 years old to participate. Prizes limited to one per household. Winners must agree to release names in order to claim prizes. Draws will take place week of mid November 2011. Winners will be notified directly and given one week to claim prizes. Unclaimed prizes will be re-drawn.

Carpool.ca launched Canada’s First Annual Carpool Week Campaign in partnership with the City of Calgary in 2003. Since that time additional communities have joined in. Past campaigns have played a key role in increasing the reach of Carpool Week promotional activities. This year’s multi-City campaign has provided us with another opportunity to coordinate sponsorships, promotional activities and media while creating a competition between both regions and corporations.

Participants come from nearly every sector and include financial institutions, governments, post-secondary institutions, health regions, NGOs and private businesses. Carpool.ca works closely with these groups to promote Carpool Week at their workplaces.

Carpool Week initiates change by increasing knowledge and awareness of carpooling as a sustainable transportation choice. This is our 9th Annual Carpool Week Campaign. Thanks to our generous sponsors, this year Carpool Week will take place in eleven communities over the last two weeks of October 2011.