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December 11, 2007
Alcoa and Alcoa Foundation Award $184,400 in Grants to Lancaster Nonprofits in 2007
Thanks to $184,400 in grants and contributions made by Alcoa Foundation and Alcoa Mill Products in Lancaster, PA, 26 Lancaster County nonprofit organizations will further their goals of serving the Lancaster community’s needs by supporting everything from summer camps and entrepreneur training programs to watershed sustainability projects and equipment for the local fire company.
“By supporting these programs, we can effectively focus our efforts on giving our community what it needs most,” said Roy Dirkmaat, vice president and general manager for Alcoa in Lancaster and Texarkana. “We are proud to present these grants, knowing they will strengthen the Lancaster community and those who live here.”
Alcoa’s grants will partially or completely fund deserving programs to benefit the area’s children, families, environment, and future. The following are just a few highlights of innovative projects from each of Alcoa’s company-wide “Areas of Excellence:”
Safe and Healthy Children & Families: to protect and nurture children by preventing violence, injury and health problems; improving opportunities for people with disabilities
- Fulton Youtheatre – annual five-week theatre camp for at-risk, disadvantaged or disabled teens. This unique program, the only one of its kind in the area, allows the opportunity to create and perform an original theatre piece on matters in participants’ own lives.
- Southeast Lancaster Health Services’ emergency dental walk-in clinic provides dental care to 5,700 Lancaster residents, many of whom have no health insurance and nowhere else to turn.
- HDC 3’s support services for affordable housing residents aim to decrease the risk of drug- or gang-related activities and family violence, and to provide education and positive activities for children and families.
Conservation & Sustainability: to continue advancing the three pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental and social
- Lititz Run Watershed Alliance – Education program for all fifth-grade students in the Warwick School District, titled Watershed Day, takes children to township parks to learn how their local actions affect the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay.
- Octoraro Watershed Association’s “Preserve the Farmer, Preserve the Farm” program, translates agricultural and environmental sustainability initiatives to apply to the unique needs of Amish society.
Global Education & Workplace Skills: to provide access to education for all; foster workplace skills, especially in math and sciences and for women and minorities
- Support for six local summer camps for children, on topics from science and business to future education and career-training. The camps include: Elizabethtown College’s “Think BIG” Summer Science and Business Camp, Junior Achievement Success Skills programs for at-risk high school students, Career Camps for students from the Lancaster County Career and Technology Center, SPARKS community outreach program, the Crispus Attucks Summer Science Camp and scholarships to the North Museum of Natural History and Science’s Science Sampler summer camp.
Business and Community Partnerships: to encourage a healthy relationship between business and the community, and to help strengthen community-based non-profits
- Lafayette Volunteer Fire Company – Equipment and training for emergency situations that makes it possible for the fire company to respond to the over 500 emergency situations that occur in the county every year.
- ASSETS Center for Small Business Development – A non-profit small business-development program serving entrepreneurs in the Lancaster area, many of them women, minorities or with low income. Provides training and mentoring to help them compete and succeed in a new economic environment.
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