GM FAIRFAX ASSEMBLY & STAMPING PRESENTS $100K TO SIX KC NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

GM Corporate Giving Funds Community Impact Grants

Sept. 12, 2018 – Kansas City, Kan. Today, General Motors Fairfax Assembly & Stamping presented six Kansas City-based nonprofit organizations with $100,000 in Community Impact Grants funded by GM Corporate Giving.

Bill Kulhanek, Plant Executive Director, and Dwayne Hawkins, UAW Local 31 Shop Chair, welcomed nonprofit leaders and government officials to the breakfast event, followed by Kansas City, Kansas Mayor David Alvey. Mayor Alvey thanked General Motors for being a great corporate citizen, for its financial commitment to the local community and for the many volunteer hours contributed by the plant’s employees.

The GM Community Impact Grants Program facilitates a social impact strategy for GM plant communities that shows GM is a corporate citizen leader to their employees and in their local community.

Kansas City Community Impact Grant recipients are:

Blue River Watershed Association - $10,000

Harvesters - $10,000

KC STEM Alliance - $10,000

Social Impact Technology & Engineering - $10,000

United Way of Wyandotte County - $50,000

Veterans Community Project - $10,000

The social media hashtag is #GMFairfax.

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Mary Padilla

913-954-2055

mary.padilla@gm.com