Consumers Energy, Employees, Consumers Energy Foundation Contribute $3.9 Million to Nonprofit Groups for Third Straight Year.JACKSON, Mich. -- For the third straight year, nonprofit community organizations received contributions of $3.9 million in 2001 from Consumers Energy, the utility's employees, and the Consumers Energy Foundation. The record-tying 2001 number pushed the four-year contribution total to $15 million. "We have a commitment to the communities we serve -- and where our employees work and live -- that dates back to 1886. Having contributions of $15 million over the past four years shows we're serious about being a catalyst for change, improving our communities, and helping our neighbors," said David G. Mengebier, president of the Consumers Energy Foundation. Mengebier is also senior vice president of governmental and public affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. for Consumers Energy. In 2001, the Foundation launched a new diversity initiative, awarding grants totaling $82,500 to support scholarships and internships for minorities and women. The grants were: * $40,000 to INROADS inroads Noun, pl make inroads into to start affecting or reducing: my gambling has made great inroads into my savings inroads npl to make inroads into [+ , an international non-profit career development organization dedicated to the professional and leadership development of talented college and pre-college students of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color . * $20,000 to Focus: HOPE, which works in partnership with community organizations, universities, and corporations to offer practical solutions to the problems of hunger, economic disparity, and inadequate education. * $10,000 to the Michigan chapter of the American Association of Blacks in Energy. * $7,500 to the Michigan Colleges Foundation. * $5,000 to the United Negro College Fund. Overall, the United Way was the largest single recipient. The utility's 8,700 employees and the Consumers Energy Foundation contributed $2.1 million to 60 local United Way agencies across Michigan. Consumers Energy and the Foundation made $2.6 million in charitable investments. The Foundation grants supported more than 1,000 projects in education, health care, social welfare, culture and the arts, community and civic activities, economic growth, and the environment. The Foundation's Volunteer Investment Program (VIP) awarded grants totaling $323,700 to 471 organizations on behalf of 723 employees and retirees. The VIP grants recognize outstanding volunteerism by employees and retirees. Of the VIP grant total, 42 percent -- $135,950 -- represented a doubling of grants for volunteers involved in groups and activities that help children and youth develop into healthy, responsible, productive, and happy adults. The doubling is part of Consumers Energy's ongoing commitment to America's Promise -- The Alliance for Youth. The 2001 figure was 21 percent higher than in 2000, the first year for grants to be doubled. In 2001, the Matching Gifts program directed grants totaling $301,589 to 213 higher educational institutions, community foundations, and qualifying food banks. That program matches gifts made to those organizations by employees and retirees. Grants to higher educational, community, and cultural institutions highlighted the Foundation's work in 2001. The top grants included: * $200,000 to the Detroit Zoo The Detroit Zoo is located in suburban Royal Oak and Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA. The Detroit Zoological Society is a non-profit organization that operates the Detroit Zoo and Belle Isle Nature Zoo, located in Detroit. for its Arctic Ring of Life, the world's largest polar bear polar bear, large white bear, Ursus maritimus, formerly Thalarctos maritimus, of the coasts of arctic North America. Polar bears usually live on drifting pack ice, but sometimes wander long distances inland. exhibit. * $100,000 for the expansion and renovation of the DeVos Place Convention Center DeVos Place Convention Center, erected in 2003 on the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, is a multi-purpose convention center. It is named for Richard DeVos, who donated $20 million towards its construction. in downtown Grand Rapids. * $40,000 to The Nature Conservancy and the Land Conservancy of West Michigan for their West Michigan Savannas and Dunes Project. * $30,000 to the Oakland Community College Foundation for the Combined Regional Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' Training Center. * $25,000 for Artrain USA for replacement and renovation of its rail cars and 30th anniversary Michigan tour. * $20,000 to Saginaw Valley State University Academic Colleges SVSU has five academic Colleges. The original College is the College of Arts and Behavioral Sciences.
* $20,000 to the YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. of Flint for facility improvements. * $15,000 to Davenport University in Grand Rapids to support the construction and renovation of the Grand Rapids and Holland campuses. The Consumers Energy Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Consumers Energy. It provides funding to areas including education, the environment, Michigan growth and enhancement, culture and the arts, social services and emerging issues. The Company's 2002 charitable investments in Michigan through the Foundation, corporate funding, and its employees will be approximately $4 million. Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy, is Michigan's largest utility providing natural gas and electricity to more than six million of the state's nearly 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties. For more information about Consumers Energy, visit our Website at http://www.consumersenergy.com/ . MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X69858568 Contact: Jeff Holyfield of Consumers Energy, +1-517-788-2394 Website: http://www.consumersenergy.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/203850.html |
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