McCarthy Heart Hats Seeks Local Non-Profits Serving Children and Families to Apply for Grants

Aug. 8, 2012 - PRLog -- McCarthy Heart Hats, the community involvement arm of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., is seeking non-profit applicants from Maricopa County to receive its annual grants, being awarded at the firm’s annual golf tournament in November 30, 2012.

This year, the McCarthy Heart Hats Grants will be dedicated to non-profits that support children and families experiencing dramatic economic need. Multiple organizations may be selected as recipients. Local 501(c)3 non-profit organizations are invited to review grant applications guidelines and apply for the funds now until August 31, 2012 at the grant Web site:  

http://www.mccarthy.com/news/2012/08/07/mccarthy-heart-hats-annual-charitable-organization-grant-guidelines-and-application/

The McCarthy Heart Hats community outreach program is dedicated to ensuring real community needs are being met through hands-on activities and financial support. Over the past several years, more than $2 million in financial support, in-kind and hands-on building contributions have been made through McCarthy’s Heart Hats program. Prior recipients of Heart Hats grants include Habitat for Humanity of Central Arizona, Family Promise, Andrea’s Closet, the Salute a Soldier Foundation, Gabriel’s Angels, Tempe/Kyrene Communities in Schools, Crisis Nursery, UMOM, Florence Crittenton, Greater Phoenix Youth at Risk, Waste Not, Future for KIDS, Mesa Association of Sports for the Disabled, and Maggie’s Place.

“We are continually looking for ways to put this money to good use in the community,” said Bo Calbert, President of McCarthy’s Southwest Division. “We feel privileged to be able to give back especially in difficult economic times.”

About  McCarthy Building Companies
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is the second largest general contractor in the Southwest, and nation’s 8th largest domestic general contractor (Engineering News-Record, May 2012). Having more than 140 years of experience, McCarthy is one of the nation’s oldest, privately held construction firms and one of Arizona’s premier commercial builders.  Committed to the construction of high-performance buildings, the company provides general contracting, construction management, program management and design/build services for healthcare, education, renewable energy and water/wastewater facilities, in addition to office buildings, mixed-use projects, entertainment/retail venues, government buildings and parking structures.  The McCarthy Southwest Division is based in Tempe, Ariz. McCarthy also has offices in Newport Beach, San Diego, Sacramento and San Francisco, Calif.; Las Vegas; Albuquerque; Dallas and Houston, Texas; St. Louis; Collinsville, Ill.;  and Atlanta.  McCarthy is 100 percent employee-owned.  More information about the company is available at www.mccarthy.com.