Coatings World - July 2017

vice president, global industrial coatings. “The IVC products, operations and employees we added through that transaction have helped strengthen our business.

“We look forward to fully integrating the Asian IVC joint venture as well, so we can further enhance PPG’s ability to deliver value to our industrial coatings customers.”

PPG Foundation Donates
$71,500 for National
Science-Education
Initiatives

The PPG Foundation recently donated a total of $71,500 to support two national science-education initiatives. The grants highlight PPG’s commitment to increasing educational opportunities for young people in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math.

A $46,500 grant to the American Chemical Society is supporting three scholarships through the ACS Scholars Program, each awarded to an underrep-resented-minority college student pursuing a degree in chemistry or chemical engineering. In addition to providing renewable scholarship funding during the students’ freshman through senior years, the program partners students with industry mentors, assists them in finding summer research internships, encourages them to present research findings at ACS conferences, and generally helps them succeed in college and in life.

For Twin Cities Public Television
(TPT) in Minnesota, the PPG Foundation
again provided a $25,000 grant to
support programming related to the
“SCIGIRLS” PBS KIDS television show
and website for young people ages 8-12.

The SciGirls show features girls using sci-
ence and engineering in their daily lives,
and the PPG Foundation has supported
it and related programs and resources
annually since 2012. The current
grant funds both workshops in
which TPT trains “role models”
in communities where PPG oper-
ates on how to encourage young people’s
interest in these subjects, and opportu-
nities for newly-trained “role models”
to practice their engagement skills with
young people in the community. CW