COMMUNITY INVESTMENT REPORT 20 18 the Leadership of O’Neal Industries, Inc
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COMMUNITY INVESTMENT REPORT 20 18 The Leadership of O’Neal Industries, Inc. (ONI) recognizes that its primary responsibility is to operate the Company profitably. Profits are necessary to meet the needs of customers, employees and shareholders. Profits also enable our family of companies to provide much needed support to the communities in which we work. Arts and culture, civic activity, education, health, and the overall welfare of societies are vital in creating a highly desirable quality of life, which in turn makes those communities even better places to live and do business. There is a direct relationship between the success of our business and the community in which we operate. We are committed to continuously strengthening our society through corporate support of the organizations and institutions that strive to better the quality of life in our communities. COMMUNITY I AM PLEASED TO PRESENT THE O’NEAL INDUSTRIES COMMUNITY INVESTMENT REPORT FOR 2018. Thanks to your contribution to our company’s strong performance in 2018, we were able to give back to the communities in which we operate in the most generous and meaningful way ever. My grandfather, Kirkman O’Neal, founded O’Neal on the belief that it was the company’s responsibility to help improve the quality of life in the local communities in which we operate; in fact, it is still one of our core values today. We continue that foundation laid by our Founder by investing in non-profit organizations that support the many causes which will benefit these communities. We realize many employees volunteer their time and give financial support to various causes. Because the need is great and we can’t support every request, we’ve set specific criteria for organizations to receive funding. For questions about this, please see the O’Neal Industries website – www.onealind.com/community-investment/. O’Neal Industries established the O’NEAL EMPLOYEE DISASTER RELIEF FUND in 2013, which is supported by monetary gifts from O’Neal Industries companies and our employees. The goal of the Fund is to provide short-term financial assistance to employees of all O’Neal Industries companies who have been affected by fires, natural disasters or other catastrophic events. When financial hardships arise, the Fund helps ONI affiliate employees, as well as provides a way for co-workers to help one another. Please see information on how to request assistance or contribute to the fund on page 15 of this report. We are sharing this information to encourage you to look for opportunities to give of your time, talent, and resources to community partners who are doing good work in your local area, and to thank those of you who already support numerous organizations, both by volunteering and giving of your resources. Thank you for all you do for our company. Craft O’Neal Chairman & CEO O’Neal Industries GIVING SUMMARY 2018 We have organized this report to reflect each of these areas of service. This report lists the primary organizations that we supported in 2018, and each section highlights a few examples. Education. 5-6 Health. 7-8 Welfare. 9-10 Civic/Arts and Culture . 11-12 United Way. 13-14 O’Neal Employee Disaster Relief Fund. .15 O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB . 16 3 O’NEAL INDUSTRIES 2018 GIVING BY IMPACT AREAS 32% United Way 27% Health 19 % Welfare 13 % Civic, Arts & Culture 9% Education 4 EDUCATION A+ Education Foundation Alamo College Central Texas Altamont School Better Basics Birmingham Education Foundation Chatfield College Grand View Christian School Hayes K-8 School Holy Family Catholic High School Junior Achievement of Alabama Linly Heflin Scholarship Foundation Restoration Academy Spring Garden Academy STAIR UAB Collat School of Business Vestavia Hills City Schools Foundation 5 THE BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION ONI companies have hired interns from the FOUNDATION’s (“Ed”) first priority is students. school’s Industrial Distribution program for They believe that Birmingham must work as many years. a team to ensure the continued success of students. In order to maximize the collective STAIR is a volunteer-led program that works impact, they listen to a wide variety of voices to improve the reading skills of underserved in decision making. Ed strives to connect and second graders who were reading below grade work with a diverse network of Birmingham’s level. A hallmark of the STAIR program is the students, families, educators, and the broader student’s ability to work at their own pace, community to realize the full potential of concentrating on the skills that each student students to impact the community. Ed believes needs to master in order to become a stronger that Birmingham’s next great generation of reader. Volunteers work with the same student entrepreneurs are sitting in our city’s schools, each week, creating a special bond and building and commits to trying new and bold ideas, their self-esteem. The results have been risk-taking and constant improvement, and excellent – the students served on average have being a catalyst that inspires others in the achieved a 107% reading score improvement. community to act. HAYES K-8 SCHOOL is an elementary/middle THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT school literally in the back yard of O’Neal Steel’s BIRMINGHAM’S COLLAT SCHOOL OF Birmingham facility, and only a few miles away BUSINESS offers both online master’s and from OMS and ONI. Employees of all three online bachelor’s degrees that are tailored to companies have partnered with Hayes to shape those with professional experience and provide back packs for students who attended those who are looking to start their career. a “Back to School Bash”, lunches for teachers Undergraduate and graduate programs offer who achieve certain goals, and the end of an integrated approach toward management the year “Field Day”. Hayes has over 900 and global leadership across seven different students, the vast majority of which live in industries. U.S. News & World Report ranks public housing. 85% of the students are on UAB’s MBA program among the nation’s best. free and reduced lunch. 6 HEALTH Addiction Prevention Coalition | Freedom Source American Cancer Society American Diabetes Association American Heart Association Autism Speaks Baptist Health Foundation Bras for the Cause Breast Cancer Research Foundation Children’s Health Foundation Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation Children’s Hospital Foundation Children’s Hospital Foundation | Norton Health Care Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Foundation for Prader-Willi Research Glenwood, Inc. JDRF Alabama Chapter JDRF Mississippi Chapter Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Major Hospital Foundation National Multiple Sclerosis Society O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB Shriners Hospital for Children Sickle Cell Foundation The Bell Center UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center UAB Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery United Ability Zero-The End of Prostate Cancer 7 PEQUITAS DE AMOR, A.C. is a nonprofit spectrum disorder, and children with severe organization in Monterrey, Mexico whose emotional and behavioral disorders. Services mission is to support children who have include educational, vocational, diagnostic cancer through blood donations. Along with services and treatment based interventions organizing community and business blood which are based on best practice and dedicated drives, Pequitas de Amor visits children to improving outcomes and the quality of life at hospitals on weekends to provide fun of every individual served. Through state-of- activities for the patients and families. On the-art training for staff, collaboration with April 30th (International Children’s Day) and nationally renowned clinicians, and linkages with Christmas they organize parties at local academic health centers for clinical care and hospitals where they dress up as clowns, research, Glenwood assures the highest quality mimes, princesses, animals and give the services to consumers and families in the state children gifts and candy. and region. SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN in CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION’s mission Tampa is changing lives every day through is to cure cystic fibrosis and to provide all innovative pediatric specialty care. The Tampa people with the disease the opportunity to lead Shriners Hospital focuses on a wide range of full, productive lives by funding research and pediatric orthopedic conditions, including rare drug development, promoting individualized diseases and syndromes. The hospital serves treatment, and ensuring access to high-quality, families from across Florida and South Georgia, specialized care. The CF Foundation raises as well as from other countries. All services are awareness for this rare, genetic, life-shortening provided in a family-centered environment, disease that makes it difficult to breathe and regardless of the families’ ability to pay. shortens lives. Their annual Great Strides provides a fantastic opportunity for family, GLENWOOD provides an array of services friends, students, and colleagues to come which are devoted to supporting and treating together and make a difference in the lives children and adults impacted by autism of people with CF. 8 WELFARE A.G. Gaston Boys & Girls Club Hunting for a Cure Alabama Possible JourneyCare Foundation Almost Home Inc. Joy Animal Rescue American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Lunch Break American Red Cross Maranathan Family Learning Center Answering the Call Northern IL Food Bank Atlanta Children's Shelter Pequitas de Amor, A. C. Beaver Dam Family Center Primrose Center Big Brothers Big Sisters