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Community Partnerships
The McWane family of companies continues a charitable heritage that began with McWane’s first president, James Ransom McWane (1869-1933). Today, McWane Inc. carries on this vision worldwide by investing in human services, the environment, the arts, education, and the communities where we live and work.
Funding for projects that directly benefit individuals
in communities where our facilities are located
is a corporate-wide initiative. "We believe
that part of being a good corporate neighbor is to
support things that will give value to our community",
says G. Ruffner Page, Jr., President of McWane,
Inc. "It’s
a simple philosophy handed down since J.R. McWane
began the company. Being a good citizen means giving
back in ways that our communities and our employees
can benefit."
McWane Inc. and its facilities have provided more than $23 million in support over the past ten years through partnerships with local organizations that make a difference in our communities. Giving is done both at the local level and at the corporate level through the McWane Foundation.
Each McWane facility is active in its local community. Through work with civic leaders and the Community Advisory Panels, partnership opportunities are identified. The sponsorship of charitable organizations which benefit our plant communities may then be fulfilled at the local level or forwarded to the corporate level for review by the McWane Foundation. All projects funded by the McWane Foundation must be recommended at the local level by the facilities where the projects are located. To view the McWane, Inc. Guidelines for Charitable Giving, please click below.
 Charitable Giving Guidelines
Below are some of our Community Partners which we are proud to support.
McWane Center
The McWane Center, a hands on science exploration center in Birmingham, Alabama hosts thousands of families, students, and educators from throughout the Southeast as they learn more about the workings of the world around them. The Center hosts innovative educational exhibits, IMAX movies, and interactive learning labs, classes and demonstrations designed to engage people of all ages in the adventure of science. The McWane Foundation was the major contributor in the building of the Center and continues to offer financial support.
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Carver High School and Kirby Middle School
In adopting two schools in the Birmingham area, McWane has created a partnership with the Carver High School and Kirby Middle School by providing a full-time employee to spend his work day at the two schools. The employee's responsibilities include mentoring students and helping to increase parental involvement. McWane has also pledged financial support to help pay for things ranging from printing student handbooks to band uniforms.
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Birmingham YMCA Youth Center Capital Campaign
In the fall of 2001, a Youth Task Force was formed of key staff and volunteers to coordinate the initial planning for the development of the Birmingham YMCA Youth Center. Many of Birmingham's top leaders, including McWane, Inc. President Ruffner Page, continue to dedicate tremendous time and energy to making the YMCA's downtown Youth Center a model for the entire country, leading their largest ever fund-raising effort.
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The Children's Home of Easton
The Children's Home of Easton is a private, non-profit agency providing both therapeutic home and community-based programs for troubled youths from dysfunctional families.
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United Way
McWane and our employees support the United Way and its basic purpose-to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another and to improve their community.
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Building Houses / Building Lives
Working with Habitat for Humanity® International, McWane has been a major financial contributor as well as source of volunteers for 6 houses in the Anniston Alabama area. In addition, McWane plants have donated products including hydrants and pipe to the building of Habitat homes and at the Global Village in Plains, Georgia.
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Vulcan Reborn
In 1904, the McWane family brought an iron giant to the Iron City. One hundred years later, the McWane family of companies helped bring him back. Vulcan, the largest cast-iron statue in the world, has been repaired, recast and restored to his former glory atop Birmingham, Alabama's Red Mountain, thanks in large part to donations from McWane, Inc. Called The "greatest iron job in history" by JR McWane, the statue is as much a source of pride for the city, once renowned as an iron-making center, as it is for the men and women of McWane, whose innovation, dedication and craftsmanship it continues to represent.
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