Aetna Granted $17,500 to Three Utah Nonprofits
August 08 2011 - 11:05AM
Business Wire
Aetna (NYSE: AET) awarded $17,500 in grants and sponsorships to
three nonprofits in Utah during 2010 to help them further their
work addressing a variety of health and human services issues.
The three Utah recipients were:
- Special Olympics Utah;
- The National Alliance on Mental Illness
Utah; and
- Utah Families Foundation.
“Aetna is pleased and proud to support nonprofit organizations
here in Utah that are working to make a difference on key health
and wellness challenges we face in our communities,” said Kay
Thompson, Aetna’s local market president for Utah.
The Special Olympics Utah received a $10,000 grant for the
Winter Sports Season, where competitors received sports training
and the opportunity to compete in the Snowball Classic, the Winter
Games, and the Fall Sports Classic.
Utah Families Foundation received a $5,000 sponsorship for a
fund-raising event designed to benefit various charities throughout
Utah.
The National Alliance on Mental Health Illness Utah was awarded
a $2,500 sponsorship for its annual NAMIWalk, which aims to educate
the public about mental illness.
Nationwide during 2010, Aetna and its charitable giving arm, the
Aetna Foundation, gave $15.6 million in grants and sponsorships. In
addition, the Aetna employees, retirees and directors donated an
additional $6.9 million through the company’s matching gift
program, bringing combined giving in communities where Aetna
employees and customers live and work to $22.5 million. And,
Aetna’s employees donated more than dollars, generously giving
nearly 335,000 hours of their personal time and talents in
communities nationwide. Since 2003, Aetna employees have logged
more than 2.3 million volunteer hours.
“During 2010, Aetna and the Aetna Foundation were pleased to
provide grants and sponsorships to 661 nonprofit organizations
nationwide, and to match the generosity of our employees to another
9,492 organizations within our communities,” said Anne C. Beal,
M.D., M.P.H., Aetna Foundation president. “We also made significant
progress toward our goals of concentrating our grants on specific
health issues of national concern, giving nearly $2.35 million to
the fight against obesity, $1.24 million to improve racial and
ethnic equity in health and health care, and more than $1 million
to support better integrated health care in America.”
More information about Aetna’s and the Aetna Foundation’s 2010
efforts to help improve the health of children and adults and to
make our health care system more equitable and effective can be
found online in the multi-media annual giving report Investing in
Our Future.
About the Aetna Foundation
The Aetna Foundation, Inc. is the independent charitable and
philanthropic arm of Aetna, Inc. Since 1980, Aetna and the Aetna
Foundation have contributed $394 million in grants and
sponsorships, including $15.6 million in 2010. As a national health
foundation, we promote wellness, health, and access to high-quality
health care for everyone. This work is enhanced by the time and
commitment of Aetna employees, who have volunteered more than 2.3
million hours since 2003. Our current giving is focused on
addressing the rising rate of adult and childhood obesity in the
U.S.; promoting racial and ethnic equity in health and health care;
and advancing integrated health care. For more information, visit
www.AetnaFoundation.org.
About Aetna
Aetna is one of the nation’s leading diversified health care
benefits companies, serving approximately 36.5 million people with
information and resources to help them make better informed
decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of
traditional, voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance
products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental,
behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical
management capabilities and health care management services for
Medicaid plans. Our customers include employer groups, individuals,
college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans,
governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and
expatriates. For more information, see www.aetna.com.
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