FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 16, 2021
SOUTH32 AWARDS $72,000 IN GRANTS TO LOCAL NONPROFITS IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
South32 today announced the names of nine charitable organizations selected to receive a total of
$72,000 in grants from the company’s Hermosa Community Fund:
- Border Youth Tennis Exchange
- Green Valley Assistance Services
- HOPE, Inc.
- Mariposa Community Health Center
- Mat Bevel Company
- Santa Cruz Council on Aging
- Santa Cruz Training Programs
- Sierra Vista Symphony Association
- The Patagonia Museum
With a focus on meaningful community lift, grant amounts ranged from $1,000 to $10,000 and supported a broad array of needs and initiatives. The Mariposa Community Health Center, for example, applied to receive financial support to provide prosthetics to local breast cancer survivors who cannot afford reconstructive surgery. The grant committee–comprising independent reviewers, the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA), and representatives from South32—opted to award twice what was requested by the health center in order to provide prosthetics not only to individuals currently scheduled to receive prosthetics but also to those on the center’s waiting list.
The application period for the next round of grants will open on January 3, 2022.
The South32 Hermosa Community Fund is held by the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
(CFSA) and was established by South32 in May of 2019 to support non-profit groups working to improve education, environment, health and welfare, recreation, civic enhancement, and arts, culture and history in the county. Grants are awarded following a review of applications by a committee.
To learn more about the fund, visit www.cfsaz.org/south32. To view the most current annual report of
giving from the fund, visit www.south32.net/hermosa/documents.
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About the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
Since 1980, the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (CFSA) has been a trusted philanthropic
partner helping individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofits work together to create a stronger
community. These funding partnerships allow CFSA to improve the quality of life throughout the region by stewarding donor and community resources to create an equitable and vibrant community for all Southern Arizonans. To date, CFSA has awarded over $200 million in grants and scholarships to
nonprofits.
About South32
South32 is a globally diversified mining and metals company. We produce bauxite, alumina, aluminium,
energy and metallurgical coal, manganese, nickel, silver, lead and zinc at our operations in Australia,
Southern Africa and South America. We are also the owner of the Hermosa Project a high-grade zinc,
lead and silver development option, and have several partnerships with junior explorers with a focus on base metals. Our purpose is to make a difference by developing natural resources, improving people’s lives now and for generations to come, and to be trusted by our owners and partners to realise the potential of their resources.
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