Demi Moore & Kevin Bacon Want Your Vote!

Stars Join Students, Entrepreneurs, and Mentors to Improve America's Communities for Pepsi "Refresh" Project.

In New York City's fashionable "Meatpacking District", iconic American actors Demi Moore and Kevin Bacon joined with local students, entrepreneurs, and their mentors at a "brainstorming event" to kick- off the voting for the historic Pepsi "Refresh" Project. Advisory board member, Majora Carter, the president of the Major Carter Group and the founder of the Sustainable South Bronx project and was on hand to moderate the event.

The Pepsi Refresh Project is a groundbreaking effort to foster innovation in social good which will award more than $20 million this year to fund "great ideas" to improve America's communities - including up to $1.3 million per month to the ideas Americans select as the best in open online voting which begins for February now on www.refresheveything.com and continue each month though December.

Pepsi will fund ideas that "move the world forward" in six categories: Health, Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods, and Education. The Refresh project is an evolution of the Refresh Everything initiative Pepsi launched in 2009, which showed the brand as a catalyst of optimism.

The first voting session ends on February 28 and the ideas that receive the top votes will be announced on Monday, March 1, 2010. The Refresh Project, which began in mid-January, has exceeded expectations as the limit of monthly submissions was reached in less than seven days. Also notable is the fact that at least one idea was submitted from each state in the U.S. - Moore and Bacon have generated their own ideas for the Refresh Project as well.