Around & About

By Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 8/1/2000

Manufacturers' generous corporate giving programs strengthened non-profit coffers this spring.

The 3M Foundation Board of Directors approved more than $7.5 million for educational institutions and programs throughout the country-including $1 million in scholarships and programs designed to encourage minorities and women to participate in science, engineering and business-and more than $1.7 million to support arts organizations in 3M communities, including $500,000 to the Minnesota Children's Museum.

With an annual picnic in May, ERB Industries, Inc., continued its support of the Shepherd Center, a not-for-profit hospital in Atlanta, Ga., which specializes in the treatment of people with spinal cord injury and disease, brain injury, MS and other neuromuscular disorders and urological problems. ERB donates $.50 of every purchase order the company receives to the Shepherd Center and 87 percent of the company's employees contribute through weekly salary deductions. To date, the company has donated over $75,000 to the center.

Certified Slings, Inc., of Casselberry, Fla., presented a $10,000 check to Habitat for Humanity-Seminole County during ceremonies at its benefit golf tournament in May.