Shaw Donates $295,783 to September 11th Fund.Business Editors BATON ROUGE Baton Rouge (băt`ən r  zh) [Fr.,=red stick], city (1990 pop. 219,531), state capital and seat of East Baton Rouge parish, SE La. , La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2001 The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SGR SGR Sustainable Growth Rate SGR Societa' di Gestione del Risparmio (Italian: Investment Management Company) SGR Specific Growth Rate SGR Surgeon General's Report SGR Soft Gamma-ray Repeater ) ("Shaw" or "the Company") today announced that the Company will donate $295,783.35 to the "United Way September 11th Fund The September 11th Fund was created by the New York Community Trust [1] and the United Way of New York City[2] in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. " established to provide assistance to those affected by the recent tragedy in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania. In September, the Company announced that it would match all funds raised by Baton Rouge Area Shaw employees for the Capital Area United Way ("CAUW CAUW Capital Area United Way CAUW Columbia Area United Way CAUW Croatian Association of University Women CAUW Cambridge Association of University Women (UK) ") 2001 Campaign, on a dollar for dollar basis and donate that amount to the September 11th Fund ("the Fund"). Shaw employees raised an impressive $276,275.35 for CAUW and this is the amount the Company will match to donate to the Fund. In addition, $19,508 was donated directly to the September 11th Fund from various Company-wide employee campaigns. Shaw and its employees were the largest contributors in the Greater Baton Rouge area. "Through the overwhelming generosity of our employees, we were able to meet the needs of our local community as well as those tragically affected by the September 11th terrorists attacks," stated J.M. Bernhard, Jr. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. The Shaw Group Inc. is the world's only vertically integrated provider of complete piping systems and comprehensive engineering, procurement and construction  The introduction to this article is vague. To comply with Wikipedia's guidelines, it should be improved. services to the power generation industry. Shaw is the largest supplier of fabricated piping systems in the United States and a leading supplier worldwide, having installed piping systems in power plants with an aggregate generation capacity in excess of 200,000 megawatts. While the majority of Shaw's backlog is attributable to the power generation industry, the Company also does work in the process industries, including petrochemical, chemical and refining, and the environmental and infrastructure sector. The Company currently has offices and operations in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific; and has more than 13,000 employees. For more information on The Shaw Group, please visit the Company's website at www.shawgrp.com.
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