• Safe and Healthy Children and Families
• Future Leaders of Industry
• Arts for Everyone
• Conservation and Sustainability
• Sustainable Communities
  

SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
The Safe and Healthy Children and Families pillar focuses on programs, activities and events that increase people’s ability to be safer, healthier and more active members of the community.
 
Kids Foundation
The KIDS Foundation and Alcoa of Australia share a common goal in injury prevention and both hold safety as a core value. 
 
The KIDS Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to childhood injury prevention and recovery including delivering quality safety education programs and services in schools. 
 
The partnership between KIDS Foundation, Alcoa Foundation and Alcoa in Australia began in 2005 and supports KIDS Foundation’s nationally recognised KIDS Safety Club school safety program, Safety 4 KIDS on-site program, Injury Free Day, Camp Phoenix and Charity Challenge.

Point Henry's Safety 4 KIDS program is a key feature of the KIDS Foundation partnership.  For every recordable injury free week achieved at Point Henry, $1500 is donated to the KIDS Foundation.  The partnership has helped shape the success of both Alcoa’s internal safety drive and KIDS Foundation’s community safety outreach programs in schools across Australia, and its vital work helping burns and injury survivors.
 
  www.kidsfoundation.org.au

FUTURE LEADERS OF INDUSTRY

The Future Leaders of Industry pillar ensures that young people in regional communities have access to the development opportunities they need to become leaders. This strengthens communities and businesses such as Alcoa, enabling them to employ skilled young people who are ready to add value.
 
Geelong Regional Vocational Education Council (GRVEC)
Alcoa Point Henry and the Geelong Regional Vocational Educational Council formed a partnership in 1999 to provide local students interested in the manufacturing industry with training, scholarship and work placement opportunities.
 
The Alcoa/GRVEC partnership supports the implementation of the Structured Workplace Learning (SWL) program in the Geelong region as well as the Alcoa Future Leaders of Industry Scholarships in Manufacturing program.
 
Structured Workplace Learning allows a student in Years 10, 11 or 12 to acquire skills and knowledge within an industry setting as part of their Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)/Vocational Education and Training (VET) or Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL)/ VET studies.  
 
More than 500 students participate in Structured Workplace Learning each year.
 
With support from the Geelong Manufacturing Council, Alcoa and GRVEC introduced the Alcoa Future Leaders of Industry Program in 2006. The Alcoa Future Leaders of Industry Program aims to encourage young people to consider a career path in manufacturing and to follow a study path that will make them eligible for job selection.
 
The program was also designed to raise the profile of manufacturing and engineering within our region and increase the awareness of career pathways and opportunities within the industry.  Twenty-five scholarships are available as part of the program.
 
 www.grvec.org.au
 
ARTS FOR EVERYONE
Arts for Everyone contributes to Alcoa’s commitment to supporting rich and diverse workforces and communities. This partnership pillar aims to encourage young people to engage in arts and music by supporting exhibitions, performances, workshops and training opportunities.  

Geelong Performing Arts Centre (GPAC)
The Alcoa Point Henry/GPAC relationship began with Alcoa’s original donation in 1977 that helped to build the arts complex. 
 
The Alcoa Theatre Season is an exciting and exhilarating year of entertaining and thought provoking shows including nine diverse, high quality theatre productions from some of the country's most renowned companies.
 
Through the Alcoa Education Program  our continuing partnership ensures that students from the Barwon and South West region have the opportunity to become engaged in the arts.  A highlight of the Education Program is the Poppykettle Festival, dedicated to promoting and celebrating performing arts for children, young people and families.

 www.gpac.com.au

CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
The Conservation and Environment pillar further demonstrates Alcoa’s commitment to environmental issues, through active partnerships in the local community.

Barwon Water
Sustainable water use is a key goal for Alcoa, Barwon Water and the drought affected greater Geelong community. Alcoa and Barwon Water have worked together to deliver a greater level of water supply security and sustainability for the community’s and Alcoa assets through innovative recycled water projects and facilities.
 
In 2004 Alcoa Point Henry formed a partnership with Barwon Water to develop and implement a Water Management Action Plan. The plant wide initiative included a review of current water consumption, developed a coordinated approach to raising awareness, improved water management procedures, investigated alternative water sources and initiated strategies focused on water conservation. Read more here.
 
In 2007, Alcoa Point Henry, the Alcoa Foundation and Barwon Water commenced a new partnership aimed at sustainable water use, under the banner of the ‘Alcoa Water Conservation Fund’.  The three-year partnership will see more than $150,000 allocated to the Alcoa Water Conservation Fund to assist customers to deliver innovative water saving projects throughout Geelong and the Surf Coast.
 
That year, the Alcoa Water Conservation Fund sponsored the installation of a wastewater recapture project at Barwon Health’s renal service sites and the McKellar Centre.  In addition to this project, several local sporting grounds in Geelong and the Surf Coast received funds to upgrade existing irrigation infrastructure to prepare the grounds for the commencement of the 2007 football season.
 
In 2008 the partnership continues to focus on delivering greater assistance to the community through the WaterSecure Home program. WaterSecure Home participants receive a visit from a licensed plumber who conducts an audit of their home and can install water-saving devices such as a water-efficient showerheads, tap aerators or flow regulators as well as fixing minor leaks. 
 
The average water saved per household after the audit is around 22KL per year which is great for the environment, not to mention a great financial saving.
 
The total audit is valued at $180, but after Barwon Water and state government subsidies, customers are charged $30.
 
The Alcoa Water Conservation Fund will cover the customer contribution of $30 for those who hold a Health Care Card, Pension Concession Card or a Department of Veteran Affairs Card, as well as all Alcoa employees.
 
The program, initially targeted at 2,500 households in 2008, is intended to be offered to all Barwon Water customers from 2009.
 
 www.barwonwater.vic.gov.au
 

SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
This pillar demonstrates Alcoa's  commitment to the communities in which we operate. Sustainable Communities will see Alcoa partner with local community groups in a way that allows each group, the wider community and our business to become stronger.
 
United Way
Alcoa Point Henry has partnered with United Way Geelong – which raises money for over 70 health and human care agencies within the region – for more than 40 years. 

Alcoa Point Henry is a Premier Supporter of United Way and has a broad partnership with Geelong's largest charitable organisation.

Alcoa Point Henry makes an annual corporate donation to United way and is the naming rights sponsor of the Alcoa Australian Head of the River . 

Alcoa also supports the United Way Workplace Giving Program by encouraging employees to make personal donations from their salary, and participating in the Loaned Executive Program.

Alcoa Point Henry also supports employees to take part in a range of other United Way fundraising events including the Barwon Banks Fun Run and Corporate Triathlon.
 
 www.uwgeelong.com.au
 
 
Alcoa's partnerships across Australia
 
 To read more about Alcoa's partnerships across Australia, click here.