IP Awards Grants To Ransom, Tate And A Dozen Other Groups

April 23, 2012

International Paper Pensacola Mill (IP)  has awarded $50,000 in Foundation Grants to local community organizations. Grants are awarded by the IP Foundation in Memphis, Tenn., which focuses on environmental education, literacy, employee involvement and critical community needs.

Grant recipients included Ransom Middle and Tate High schools.

Ransom’s “From Dirt to Dinner” initiative involves the Ransom Eco Club, FFA and agriculture student groups in school garden. The project presents a unique opportunity to address recent challenges, such as increased global food prices, and rethink the role of agriculture and its economic and ecological benefits. The project  also improves the school campus environment with a green zone.

Tate’s “Recycling Fever, It’s an Epidemic” project will all the school’s Environmental Club purchase 120 tall plastic recycling bins which will replace cardboard boxes that are currently used but not up the job — they become flimsy when wet, they tear and teachers complain that they don’t hold enough. Large  bins that roll will also be purchased for weekly clean sweeps of recyclables such as moving materials from copy rooms to the recycling dumpster.

IP grant award recipients were:

  • Autism Pensacola – “Kids for Camp Summer Learning Lab”
  • Ballet Pensacola -  “Discover Dance”
  • Community Action Program Committee – “Code Enforcement 2012”
  • Council on Aging of West Florida – “Big Green, Little Green”
  • Escambia County Extension Horticulture Program – “Sustainable Gardens”
  • Escambia County Public Schools Foundation for Excellence – “Literacy Grant Partnership with International Paper”
  • Every Child a Reader – “Project Ready”
  • JM Tate High School – “Recycling Fever, It’s an Epidemic”
  • Pensacola Promise – “New Wave Project”
  • Pensacola State College Foundation – “Summer Environmental Camp”
  • Ransom Middle School – “From Dirt to Dinner”
  • United Cerebral Palsy of Northwest Florida – “Building Literacy Skills for Pre-School Children with Special Needs”
  • UWF Foundation – “College Reach Out Program”
  • WSRE-TV Foundation – “Raising Readers for Tomorrow”

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News