Make your business a model of sustainable mobility
Highlights
This program is designed for businesses like yours, aiming to implement sustainable mobility measures. By participating, you will gain exposure through media and the business community via a Chamber promotional campaign. You will also benefit from the guidance of mentors and seasoned experts to help you develop and implement a travel management plan.
Key Benefits:
- Reduce employee tardiness and increase productivity
- Lower parking costs
- Amortize up to 200% of your investment in public transit costs
- Enhance your company’s image in social responsibility
The program offers financing options that are more favorable than others, as it includes a promotion and visibility strategy worth over $80,000. This support will help you measure and showcase the impact of your sustainable mobility efforts. Qualifying is straightforward, and the program is tailored to support organizations with several hundred employees.
Financing Details
Type of Financing: Grant
Repayment Terms and Interest Rates:
- No repayment is required as this is a grant.
- No interest rates apply.
Eligible Expenses:
- Salaries and wages for project staff.
- Equipment and supplies directly related to the project.
- Training and development costs.
- Marketing and promotional activities.
- Travel expenses necessary for project implementation.
Ineligible Expenses:
- General operational costs not directly related to the project.
- Purchase of real estate or property.
- Debt repayment.
- Entertainment expenses.
- Personal expenses.
Fees:
- No application fees.
- No administrative fees.
Qualifications
- Must be an organization with several hundred employees.
- Must be located in Greater Montréal.
- Must be willing to implement concrete sustainable mobility measures.
- Must be ready to introduce a travel management plan.
- Must be open to evaluating their travel profile with the help of a Centre de gestion des déplacements.
- Must be prepared to measure the results and impact of implementing a mobility plan.
Must be willing to share their sustainable mobility efforts publicly.
Disqualifications:
- Organizations with fewer than several hundred employees.
- Organizations not located in Greater Montréal.
- Organizations unwilling to implement sustainable mobility measures.
- Organizations not prepared to introduce a travel management plan.
- Organizations unwilling to evaluate their travel profile.
- Organizations not ready to measure the impact of their mobility plan.
- Organizations unwilling to share their sustainable mobility efforts.
Description
This program offers a unique chance for your business to enhance its sustainable mobility efforts. By participating, your business can benefit from a promotion and visibility strategy worth over $80,000. This includes exposure through media and the business community, which can significantly boost your company's image.
Your business will receive support to implement a travel management plan and sustainable mobility measures. This can help reduce employee tardiness, increase productivity, and lower parking costs. Additionally, you can amortize up to 200% of the amount you invest in public transit costs.
The project lasts 12 to 18 months and involves at least ten organizations. Throughout this period, your business will be guided by mentors and seasoned experts. This is a great opportunity to improve your company's social responsibility and make a positive impact on the environment.
Program Steps
Register Your Organization: Sign up your business for the program through the official registration portal.
Evaluate Your Travel Profile: Work with a Centre de gestion des déplacements to assess your current travel patterns and needs.
Prepare Documentation: Gather and prepare the necessary documents for your application. These may include:
- Business registration details
- Current travel management plans (if any)
- Employee travel data
- Financial statements
- Proposed sustainable mobility measures
Develop a Travel Management Plan: With the help of mentors, create a comprehensive travel management plan that outlines the sustainable mobility measures your organization will implement.
Submit Your Application: Complete and submit your application along with the prepared documentation through the designated application platform.
Implement the Mobility Plan: Once approved, begin implementing the travel management plan and sustainable mobility measures as outlined in your application.
Measure Results and Impact: Regularly monitor and measure the results and impact of the implemented mobility plan. This includes tracking employee participation, cost savings, and environmental benefits.
Share Your Efforts: Document and share your sustainable mobility efforts and successes through press releases, blogs, and social media as part of the program's promotional strategy.