Toyota Announces Winners of FY2006 Environmental Activities Grant Program

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Toyota Announces Winners of FY2006 Environmental Activities Grant
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Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 13, 2006 - Toyota Motor Corporation
announced today the 25 winners of the FY2006 Toyota
Environmental Activities Grant Program, who will each receive a total of
170 million yen. In the seven years between FY2000 and FY2006, the
cumulative total of grants given by the Toyota Environmental Activities
Grant Program has amounted to approximately 1.24 billion yen, supporting
113 projects in 40 countries.

The Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program was launched in
commemoration of TMC's receipt of the Global 500 Award*, in 1999, from
the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Since then, the program
has been supporting practical projects concerning environmental
education and environmentally sound technology implemented by
non-profit/non-governmental organizations and groups. During the
application period between May and July 2006, 548 applications were
received, with 424 coming in under the original category of "general
grants" (with no restriction regarding project implementation site(s)
and the limit of the grant amount) and 124 coming in under the category
of "small-scale grants" (which focus on community-based grassroots
activities with a limit on the grant amount).

The program's selection committee, consisting of a group of experts from
Japan and elsewhere around the world and chaired by Dr. Keiko Nakamura,
director general of the JT Biohistory Research Hall, deliberated
intensely while selecting the 2006 grantees. The entries were judged on
criteria such as: appropriateness of the projects; continuity and future
development; clear demonstration of the necessity of funding; and the
level of collaboration with local communities. The grant program will
support the chosen projects for up to three years for "general grants",
and up to one year for "small-scale grants".

* An award program (1987 to 2003) established by the UNEP to recognize
individuals or organizations that contribute to greater environmental
protection or improvement in terms of sustainable development. TMC
received the award for being the world's first to development and mass
produce hybrid vehicles.

For a full list of FY2006 Awardees of the Toyota Environmental
Activities Grant Program, please visit
http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/news/06/1113.html .