FedEx team members celebrated the FedEx 40th anniversary today with service, as team members participated in a volunteer day with local nonprofit, Friends of the Wissahickon. In addition to overall site clean-up to keep the historic Wissahickon Valley Park beautiful, volunteers participated in activities to help restore a highly eroded tributary to Wissahickon Creek in an effort to improve the creek’s water quality and to assist in the organization’s goal of stabilizing over 350 linear feet of the stream.
The project is part of a grant program sponsored by FedEx and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to address pressing urban environmental challenges. Friends of the Wissahickon was one of 14 nonprofits selected from across the country by FedEx and NFWF to receive funding in 2013.
FedEx provided a grant of $30,500 for Friends of the Wissahickon, leveraging $9,500 in funding through NFWF and $388,500 from local matching sources for a total impact of $428,500 benefitting Friends of the Wissahickon.
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More than 600 U.S.-based FedEx team members are expected to support similar local sustainability projects as part of the company’s annual EarthSmart Outreach program with NFWF, now in its fourth year. The FedEx and foundation grants, totaling more than $550,000 in 2013, will be matched with grants from local municipalities and agencies to yield more than $1 million in support for these critical environmental projects.
