The Coca-Cola Foundation Awards $6 Million to strengthen global community efforts

Forty-four community organizations around the world will receive a total of $6 million in grant awards from The Coca-Cola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Company. The grants, approved during thesecond quarter, support community initiatives aimed at improving education, fitness and nutrition programs, community recycling and access to clean water.

“We continue to support local initiatives around the world that are important to our consumers in their own communities,” said Ingrid Saunders Jones, Senior Vice President, Global Community Connections for The Coca-Cola Company, and Chairperson of The Coca-Cola Foundation. “We believe our investment in these 44 community organizations will help people worldwide build stronger, healthier and sustainable communities.”

Since the beginning of the year, The Coca-Cola Foundation has awarded more than $38 million to 123 organizations. Of the $6 million allocated during the second quarter, approximately $5.4 million support the Foundation’s community investment priorities, including:

$1.9 million to healthy active living programs

$1.6 million for water stewardship projects

$1.5 million to educational initiatives

Approximately $1 million will support other local community priorities, such as recycling, youth development, arts and culture, and civic initiatives. Organizations receiving funding include:

Active Healthy Living

100 Black Men of the Bay Area, Inc., “Improve the Well-Being of Youth through Physical Activity,” United States, $100,000

China Youth Care Foundation, “Balanced Diet/Active Living” China, $300,000

Girls Inc. of Central Alabama, “Body by Me,” United States, $13,000

Hong Kong Rope Skipping Association, “Rope Skipping STAR Program,” China, Hong Kong, $150,000

Kids In Sports, “Girls in Recreation Leadership and Sports (GIRLS) Program,” United States, $30,000

Latvian Physicians Association, “Healthy, Balanced Diet,” Latvia, $40,000

Lino Kleizos labdaros ir paramos fondas, “Linas Kleiza Classroom,” Lithuania, $25,000

Mo.D.A.V.I. Onlus, “A Scuola InForma,” Italy, “A School Nutrition Education Program,” $500,000

Pan American Health and Education Foundation, “Health and Wellness Promotion in Latin America,” United States, $300,000

Piedmont Park Conservancy, “Kids Get Active in Piedmont Park,” United States, $30,000

Save the Children, “School Health and Nutrition in Leogane,” United States, $130,000

SIEMACHA Association, “Juliada,” Poland, $25,000

Think Detroit Police Athletic League, Inc., “Soccer for Success,” United States, $100,000

Universal Media Service Agency, “Construction of four sports grounds in Almaty,” Kazakhstan, $125,000

Vive en Forma, “Vive en Forma (Get Fit for Life),” United States, $75,000

Water Stewardship

Fundación para la Sostenibilidad y la Equidad (ALIARSE), “Water Vilgilants Program,” Costa Rica, $30,000

Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development, “Non-Conventional Water Resource Program,” Malta, $800,000

Universitat Jaume I, “Seawater Intrusion Recharging Coastal Aquifers with Regenerated Water,” Spain, $143,000

Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Inc., “No time to Waste: Keeping our River and Citizens Healthy,” United States, $25,000

World Wide Fund for Nature – Pakistan, “Ayubia National Park: Improving Sub-Watershed Management,” Pakistan, $99,975

World Wildlife Fund, Inc., “Great Barrier Reef Sustainable Freshwater Revitalization Project,” United States, $500,000

Education

100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc., “Project Success,” United States, $50,000

Agnes Scott College, “Developing Global Women Leaders,” United States, $1 million-multiyear grant

Ancora Foundation, “Vocational Studies Scholarship,” Indonesia, $50,003

Harvard Kennedy School - Center for Public Leadership, “Latino Leadership Initiative,” United States, $75,000

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation Inc., “Contribution to the City on the Hill,” United States, $75,000

National Academy Foundation, “Strengthening Work-based Learning Opportunities: Atlanta Pilot,” United States, $25,000

National Organization on Disability, “Wounded Warrior Careers Program,” United States, $100,000

Teach For America, Inc., “Accelerating the Movement to Close the Education Achievement Gap,” United States, $50,000

U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, Inc., “America’s Best Asset: American Citizens - The 2020 U.S. Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy,” United States, $100,000

Recycling

Akyikat International Charity Foundation Public Foundation, “Water-Source of Life,” Kyrgyzstan, $50,000

Fundacion Galapagos Ecuador, “Coastal Clean-up” Ecuador, $20,000

Junior League of Mexico City, IAP, “Reciclable Por Naturaleaza (Recycle for Nature) Program,” Mexico, $100,000

Kazakh Society of Nature Protection, “Cleaning River Banks and Lake Shores,” Kazakhstan, $125,000

Piedmont Park Conservancy, “Recycling in Piedmont Park,” United States, $20,000

Youth Development

Coca-Cola Australia Foundation: Beyond Empathy “Breaking Barriers,’ LTD, Australia, $100,000

Coca-Cola Australia Foundation: Clontarf Foundation, “Engaging Aboriginal Youth in Education,” Australia, $100,000

Jordan River Foundation, “Youth Summer Volunteer Program,” Jordan, $79,612

Tavis Smiley Foundation, “Building Healthy Leaders – Leadership,” United States, $75,000

Community/Arts & Culture

Children's Hospital Boston, “Global Pediatric Fellows Program,” United States, $30,000

Foundation Integration, “Football Without Limits,” Poland, $35,000

Georgia Center for Nonprofits, “Nonprofit University,” United States, $25,000

Kashf Foundation, “Building Economic Capabilities to Empower Women in Pakistan,” Pakistan, $100,000

United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, “2011-2012 Women’s Leadership Council Match,” United States, $100,000