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Follow on Google News | ![]() Safeway Foundation Distributes Grants Totalling $130,000Company's charitable foundation hands presents checks to 31 local non-profit groups during breakfast ceremony.
By: Craig M. Muckle Included among the group of recipients are the Alzheimer’s Association (National Capital Area), Bread for the City, the Children’s Cancer Foundation, Children’s National Medical Center, D.C. Central Kitchen, the Kennedy Krieger Institute, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Maryland Food Bank, Mentoring to Manhood, Southwest Playground Project, and the Whitman Walker Clinic. A complete list of the most recent grant recipients and the amount received follows. (Editor’s Note: photos are also available of each of the grant recipient’s check presentations. Please contact us if you wish to include that with your coverage). The Whitman-Walker Clinic and Women Who Care Ministries (Gaithersburg, Md.) both received the largest contribution ($10,000) of this cycle with those grants supporting the 25th annual AIDS Walk and the Helping Kids Eat Weekend Backpack Program, respectively. Safeway established the foundation to assist deserving charitable organizations with their work or special projects in a much more comprehensive manner. The Foundation's resources are provided through annual employee payroll deductions with staff members designating the amount they wish to contribute during an annual pledge campaign. Funding decisions made by the Foundation's board are influenced by Safeway's contributing employees, who are asked during the campaign which causes they wish to see supported (i.e. - hunger relief, health and human services, education, special needs and local community). Each Safeway operating division operates and manages its own foundation. As a result, all monies donated by Eastern Division employees will be distributed solely to non-profit groups located in the division's territory of Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Delaware. Safeway has consistently ranked among the top companies in the Washington metro region by the Washington Business Journal in the publication’ Safeway Inc is a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America based on sales. The company operates 1,694 stores in the United States and Canada with a total workforce of nearly 200,000 employees. The Eastern Division currently employs more than 16,000 people and operates 159 stores that include 30 Genuardi's Markets in Southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, along with 69 Safeway stores in Maryland, 40 in Virginia, 15 in the District of Columbia and five in Delaware. This is the list of August 2011 Safeway Foundation Grant Recipients with the amount received Organization & Location 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County; Westminster, MD $1,000 Alzheimer’s Association National Capital Area Chapter; Fairfax, VA $5,000 ARRIBA Center for Independent Living; Washington, DC $5,000 Bread for the City; Washington, DC $5,000 Building Hope Inc.; Bowie, MD $5,000 Children’s Cancer Foundation, Inc.; Owings Mills, MD $5,000 Children’s National Medical Center; Washington, DC $5,000 Circle of Hope; Barnesville, MD $2,500 Community Dentistry on Wheels, Inc.; Largo, MD $5,000 Community Foundation of the National Capital Region D.C. Central Kitchen; Washington, DC $5,000 Divine Exchange Ministry, Inc.; Washington, DC 5,000 House of Ruth; Washington, DC $2,500 Kennedy Krieger Institute; Baltimore, MD $5,000 Lakeport Cluster Association; Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; Alexandria, VA $6,000 Literacy Volunteers of America-Prince William, Inc.; Woodbridge, Va. $1,000 Maryland Food Bank; Baltimore, MD $2,000 Maryland Society for Sight; Baltimore, MD $2,500 Mentoring To Manhood; Upper Marlboro, MD $5,000 Quality Trust; Washington, DC $1,350 Reaching The World; Temple Hills, MD $5,000 Rob’s Barbershop Community Foundation, Inc.; Odenton, MD $3,000 Rotary Area 4 Can-Do Too Playground, Inc.; Milford, DE $5,000 Southwest Playground Project; Washington, DC $5,000 Sudden Infant Death Services of the Mid-Atlantic; The Twelve Days of Christmas, Inc.; Alexandria, VA $1,000 Urban Nation, Inc.; Silver Spring, MD $2,500 Walk to Fight Breast Cancer/IAHF; Whitman-Walker Health; Washington, DC $10,000 Women Who Care Ministries, Inc.; Gaithersburg, Md. $10,000 -30- # # # National retail grocery chain with stores throughout located throughout North America (approximately 20 states and Canada). End
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