Tobacco Employees Donate $2.4 Million to Charity

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 09/29/2009

Altria Group employees recently donated $2.4 million to 90 non-profit organizations in central Virginia, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch story. The employees this year provided through the Altria Companies Employee Community Fund grants ranging from $5,474 to $50,000 to organizations working in six broad categories: hunger relief, domestic violence, senior services, emergency services, youth services and homelessness. About 3,000 of the company's employees gave to the fund this year. A committee of 28 employees reviewed the grant requests and selected 90 groups for funding. The grantees were chosen from among 191 proposals, the most requests the fund has ever received. The employee-supported fund was started in 2000 and has given 793 grants totaling more than $23 million. Enditem