Mon Valley Community Group Wins $5,000 Community Impact Award
PITTSBURGH - Connect, Inc., which works to find temporary
and permanent housing for homeless individuals and families, has earned a $5,000
Community Impact Award, an award sponsored by Dominion Peoples.
In the eighth annual award competition, Dominion awarded $60,000
to eight winners selected by a panel of judges from 51 nominations submitted
by organizations throughout western Pennsylvania. The award recognizes cities
or community groups that have made a major impact in the community. Grant funds
come from the Dominion Foundation.
Connect, Inc., recently completed an innovative real estate
project called Reed Avenue Place through a joint venture of non-profit and for-profit
groups, county government and local government. The result is a campus-like
setting, which includes a townhouse complex, a renovated church and a Family
Center, which provides early childhood education.
"We are proud of the outstanding efforts of all the people
involved in these award-winning projects," said Jay L. Johnson, president
and chief executive officer. "Their work goes a long way in revitalizing
our communities and making them better places in which to live, work and play."
Other Community Impact Award winners include:
The Progress Fund's enterprise development
project which targets rural Pennsylvania by increasing access to capital for
owners of small businesses.
Hosanna House, Inc., for its job training and job
search classes program.
Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition and Stream Restoration,
Inc., for its environmental project at Goff station.
Homeless Children's Education Fund for its Computer
Learning Center project that ensures that homeless children have equal access
to educational opportunities.
Adams Memorial Library, for its weekly Bookmobile
project that helps increase library circulation by the thousands every month.
Conservation Consultants, Inc., for its Green Neighborhood
Program, which provides energy efficiency and environmental education to targeted
neighborhoods.
Nazareth Housing Services, for its Senior
Homeowner Assistance Program, which assists income-eligible individuals in
maintaining safe and affordable housing.
Dominion has a diversified and integrated energy portfolio
consisting of about 24,000 megawatts of generation. Dominion also serves more
than 3.8 million franchise natural gas and electric customers in five states.
For more information about Dominion, visit the company's Web site at www.dom.com.
