Basis donates $25,000 to help a veteran’s life-changing street to restoration
CAMDEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The American Water (NYSE:) Charitable Basis, a 501(c)(3) group established by American Water (NYSE: AWK), the biggest regulated water and wastewater utility firm within the U.S., and American Water’s Army Providers Group, introduced in the present day that the Basis awarded a $25,000 State Strategic Impression grant to K9s For Warriors, the nation’s largest supplier of educated Service Canines for veterans with invisible wounds of warfare, for the third consecutive yr.
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American Water Army Providers Group President Sean Wheatley presents a $25,000 American Water Charitable Basis State Strategic Grant to K9s For Warriors throughout their annual Veterans Day Telethon. (Photograph: Business Wire)
We’re grateful for the American Water Charitable Basis’s continued help of our mission to finish veteran suicide, stated Lindsay (NYSE:) Grayson, Chief Income Officer, K9s For Warriors. K9s For Warriors has paired greater than 1,000 veterans with a service canine. With the American Water Charitable Basis’s assist, we are able to proceed to supply these life-changing animals to veterans in want, serving to them regain their independence and enhance their high quality of life.
K9s For Warriors stays dedicated to ending veteran suicide, elevating consciousness for invisible disabilities, and creating policy-level reform for our veterans.
The American Water Charitable Basis is thrilled to companion as soon as once more with K9s For Warriors to help their mission and promote the well-being of our veterans, stated Carrie Williams, President, American Water Charitable Basis. This grant will play a significant function in saving two lives: a courageous veteran who has served our nation and a rescue canine that deserves a second probability at a contented life. It additionally displays our ongoing dedication to range, fairness, and inclusion and our veterans.
The State Strategic Impression grant is a part of the 2024 Preserve Communities Flowing Grant Program, specializing in three pillars of giving: Water, Folks and Communities. State Strategic Impression grants help high-impact initiatives and initiatives all through American Water’s nationwide footprint.
We’re delighted to collaborate with the American Water Charitable Basis in persevering with our help for K9s For Warriors, a corporation devoted to serving to the veteran neighborhood and resonates with our workforce, stated Sean Wheatley, President, American Water Army Providers Group. This partnership reinforces our Army Providers Group’s mission to supply secure and dependable water and wastewater providers to service members and their households on 18 army installations.
Prior to now two years, the American Water Charitable Basis, in partnership with American Water’s Army Providers Group, has contributed an extra $50,000 in State Strategic Impression grants to K9s For Warriors. In 2022 and 2023, the Basis sponsored two canine, Hydra and Honor, each of whom efficiently accomplished Service Canine coaching and had been paired with a Warrior.
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About American Water
American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the biggest regulated water and wastewater utility firm in the USA. With a historical past courting again to 1886, We Preserve Life Flowing ® by offering secure, clear, dependable and reasonably priced ingesting water and wastewater providers to greater than 14 million folks with regulated operations in 14 states and on 18 army installations. American Water’s 6,500 proficient professionals leverage their vital experience and the corporate’s nationwide measurement and scale to attain wonderful outcomes for the advantage of prospects, workers, traders and different stakeholders.
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About American Water Charitable Basis
The American Water Charitable Basis is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group that gives a proper technique to reveal the corporate’s ongoing dedication to be a great neighbor, citizen, and contributor to the communities the place American Water and its workers dwell, work and function. For extra info, go to amwater.com/awcf.
About Army Providers Group
Army Providers Group, a subsidiary of American Water, offers water and wastewater providers to army installations throughout the nation as a part of the federal authorities’s Utilities Privatization program. Army Providers Group presently owns, operates and maintains water and/or wastewater belongings at 18 army installations, together with: Fort Novosel, Ala.; Vandenberg Area Drive Base, Calif.; Naval Station Mayport, Fla.; Scott Air Drive Base, Unwell.; Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; Fort Johnson, La.; Fort Meade, Md.; Fort Leonard Wooden, Mo. Picatinny Arsenal, N.J.; U.S. Military Garrison West Level, N.Y.; Wright-Patterson Air Drive Base, Ohio, Fort Sill, Okla.; Fort Cavazos, Texas; Joint Base San Antonio, Texas; Hill Air Drive Base, Utah; Fort Walker, Va.; Fort Belvoir, Va.; and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
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Alicia Barbieri
Director, Communications & Exterior Affairs
American Water
(856) 676-8103
alicia.barbieri@amwater.com
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