WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Alliance for National & Community Resilience (ANCR)
and Dow Building & Construction
(DB&C), a business group of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:
DOW), today announced that Amy
Schmidt, advocacy manager with Dow Building &
Construction, has joined with the International Code Council,
Target Corporation and other key stakeholders in an appointment to
the ANCR Board of Directors. ANCR (pronounced "anchor") is a
coalition aimed at improving resiliency and implementing good
community practices in towns and cities across the United States, helping cities prevent
infrastructure failure caused by natural and other disasters,
thereby avoiding negative social, economic and welfare
repercussions caused by such damages. ANCR's primary objective is
the development of a system of community benchmarks – the first
system of its kind in the United
States – that will allow local leaders to easily assess and
improve their resilience across all functions of a community.
Schmidt's appointment to the Board of Directors is a
continuation of Dow's and ANCR's goal of creating policy that
improves the lives of individuals in communities. As a newly
appointed board member, Schmidt will work directly with ANCR and
use her expertise in construction, government affairs, chemistry
and design to establish benchmarks that will be used by resilient
communities to prevent infrastructure failure following natural and
manmade adverse events.
"We are thrilled and honored to work alongside the International
Code Council in their commitment to organize a nationwide coalition
to establish the country's very first whole community metric for
resilience," says Greg Bergtold,
advocacy director for DB&C. "We see great value in contributing
both monetary and human resources, like Amy, to seed this
coalition's success."
Schmidt joins ANCR's founding Board members who include
resilience policy experts and public officials from the city of
New York and the District of Columbia among others.
"Amy Schmidt is an active and
valued member of our Corporate Advisory Council, and we're excited
to welcome her to the Board of Directors," said Maj. General (Ret.) Warren C. Edwards, board chairman for ANCR.
"Dow's generous sponsorship and sustainability expertise are
absolutely critical to achieving our goal of supporting and
educating communities across the United
States."
Dow and ANCR welcome others who are interested in lending their
unique experience, resources and expertise to the work of analyzing
community needs and developing practical benchmarks to aid in the
creation of robust communities that thrive in both good and bad
circumstances.
About the Alliance for National & Community Resilience
(ANCR)
ANCR, a coalition of public and private entities
founded by the International Code Council, the Meridian Institute
and the U.S. Resiliency Council, is working to create the nation's
first whole-community resilience benchmark. Visit
www.ResilientAlliance.org to learn more about this new initiative
and get involved.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of
science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential
to human progress. The Company is driving innovations that extract
value from material, polymer, chemical and biological science to
help address many of the world's most challenging problems, such as
the need for fresh food, safer and more sustainable transportation,
clean water, energy efficiency, more durable infrastructure, and
increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated,
market-driven portfolio delivers a broad range of technology-based
products and solutions to customers in 175 countries and in
high-growth sectors such as packaging, infrastructure,
transportation, consumer care, electronics, and agriculture. In
2016, Dow had annual sales of $48
billion and employed approximately 56,000 people worldwide.
The Company's more than 7,000 product families are manufactured at
189 sites in 34 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or
the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated
subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information
about Dow can be found at www.dow.com.
www.iccsafe.org
Contact: Whitney Doll
(202) 568-1798
wdoll@iccsafe.org
Contact: Jessica
Robinson
(989) 638-8066
jlrobinson@dow.com
Contact: Mike
Heymsfield
(650) 762-2847
mike.heymsfield@edelman.com
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