Leadership Through
Community
By Susan Poole, IP Mill Communications Manager
I
nternational Paper is proud to partner with local community organizations, such as Outdoor Women
Unlimited, through the International
Paper Foundation, the charitable arm of
the company. During the past 5 years, the
IP Foundation has donated more than
$180,000 to agencies in the Prattville Mill
community to support programs directed toward environmental education and
literacy, the primary focus areas of the
Foundation.
In October 2013, International Paper’s
Prattville Mill, through the International
Paper Foundation, provided a grant to
Outdoor Women Unlimited to continue
their work promoting outdoor education. These types of grants make a positive impact throughout our community
through programs such as Alabama
Forestry Foundation’s Walk in the Forest,
an outdoor classroom for a local school,
environmental education opportunities along a historic waterway, and programs promoting literacy throughout
the region. These are in addition to
programs in Autauga County schools
that teach elementary school students
through the use of butterfly kits and
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efforts many children and adults receive
educational materials and benefit from
We are proud to sponsor all of these programs designed to increase literacy
agencies, and have been a long time throughout the community.
supporter of OWU, providing more than
$28,000 since 2008 to the organization. Mill Manager Carl Gunter has had the
We believe in their programs that intro- opportunity to learn more about these
duce women to the outdoors experience organizations since arriving in Prattville
and offer them opportunities to partici- early in 2013. “This community continpate in activities ]