Domtar Corporation & Nonprofit Partner, First Book, Give Grant for New Books to Riverview Elementary in Fort Mill, SC
16 May 2018 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Employee volunteers will read to students at
Riverview Elementary School in Fort Mill; Domtar’s grant has funded
more than 200 new books for the students to keep and for the
classroom libraries.
Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) announced that
employee volunteers from the company’s U.S. Corporate Office in
Fort Mill, SC, will visit the local Riverview Elementary School
today to read to the students, and to donate more than 200 new
books as part of its partnership with First Book. Domtar makes
a wide variety of everyday products from sustainable wood fiber,
and is one of the world’s largest producers of a complete line of
absorbent hygiene solutions and an innovator in absorbent
technology. Domtar’s U.S. Corporate Office in Fort Mill, SC employs
nearly 600 people in the region, and its Rock Hill Converting
Center employs nearly 50 people.
Employee volunteers from Domtar will visit Riverview
Elementary School, located at 1300 Spratt St, Fort Mill, SC 29715,
from 8:15am-9:30am today, where they will read to students in
five of the Kindergarten classes. Each of the 104 students will get
to take home two books, “National Geographic Kids: A Tree Grows Up”
and “Step Into Reading: Pizza Pig,” and additional books will
be provided for all the Kindergarten classroom libraries.
“Domtar is so grateful for the wonderful relationship that we’ve
developed with the students and teachers of Riverview Elementary
School through our book grants, volunteer reading events, and
conservation projects,” said Domtar Corporate Responsibility
Manager, Heather Alverson Stowe. “We’re committed to promoting
literacy, one of Domtar’s core corporate giving pillars, which is
why we continue to partner with First Book to put books in the
hands of children in our local schools in Fort Mill, Rock Hill, and
Charlotte.”
Over the last year, Domtar has provided multiple grants to local
schools and community programs in Fort Mill, Rock Hill, and
Charlotte to purchase hundreds of books from First Book for
students to read and enjoy.
As part of its Powerful Pages campaign, Domtar has partnered
with First Book, a nonprofit social enterprise that provides books
to children in need, since 2012 to provide more than half a million
dollars in grants to schools and programs in towns that are home to
Domtar facilities. Domtar’s grants provide funding to educators to
purchase books through the First Book Marketplace, a website
available exclusively to First Book programs, and then the school’s
children are able to bring home the new books.
“Access to books is transformational in the lives of our
children and the educators who serve them,” said Kyle Zimmer, First
Book president and CEO. “Domtar’s work with First Book has opened
up a world of opportunities to children who might not otherwise
have books at home.”
About DomtarDomtar is a leading provider of a wide
variety of fiber-based products including communication, specialty
and packaging papers, market pulp and absorbent hygiene products.
With approximately 10,000 employees serving more than 50 countries
around the world, Domtar is driven by a commitment to turn
sustainable wood fiber into useful products that people rely on
every day. Domtar’s annual sales are approximately $5.1 billion,
and its common stock is traded on the New York and Toronto Stock
Exchanges. Domtar’s principal executive office is in Fort Mill,
South Carolina. To learn more, visit www.domtar.com.
About First BookFirst Book is a nonprofit social
enterprise that has distributed more than 100 million books and
educational resources to programs and schools serving children from
low-income families throughout the United States and Canada. By
making new, high-quality books available on an ongoing basis, First
Book is transforming the lives of children in need and elevating
the quality of education. For more information, please visit us
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