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The Dow Chemical Company Community Advisory Panel (CAP), in conjunction with Dow’s Pittsburg Operations, awarded six community grants totaling $15,000 to six nonprofit agencies.

The $2,500 grants were awarded to (click on organization name to see photos):

Arts & Cultural Foundation of Antioch (Art&Science4Schools)
One Day at a Time (Gang violence prevention programs)
Opportunity Junction (Purchase 10 refurbished computers)
City of Pittsburg (Small World Park Ferris Wheel)
East County Business-Education Alliance (Expand Work-Ready Certificate program)
Pittsburg Unified School District (Purchase school uniforms for needy families)

The Dow grant supported science academic studies at Antioch Senior High. See this link for report on program outcomes.

The Arts & Cultural Foundation supplied an art teacher, Ramona Kennon-Frink, who partnered with the environmental science/biology teacher, Colette Lewis to introduce art concepts in their studies at the Dow Wetlands Preserve, which increased the student’s interest and comprehension.

There are many students who are more visual than they are auditory; art can be used in any subject to help conceptualize and communicate images or ideas. By combining art and science, students will look at scientific data and studies through different eyes and challenge them to use nontraditional scientific tools and learning processes to study such as photography, painting, creating plaster molds, etc.

The competitive grant program was established this year to help fund sustainable community service projects in Eastern Contra Costa County. Though the Dow Pittsburg Operations gives generously throughout the year to non-profit organizations in the surrounding communities, designating $15,000 for competitive grants enables Dow to diversify the amount of charitable giving within the community.

Members of the CAP Grants Committee ranked applications based on sustainability, overall impact, benefits to the community, emphasis, and the ratio of administrative costs to actual benefit.

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