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Alcoa Foundation Awards $50,000 Grant to Jackie Robinson Foundation
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - November 1, 2005 - The Alcoa Foundation is helping the Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) pitch educational, mentoring and leadership development opportunities to minority high school students through JRF's Scholars Networking Weekend. Alcoa Foundation recently awarded JRF a $50,000 grant to be used to help fund workshops, seminars and lectures on leadership training and career counseling during the Scholars Networking Weekend to be held in New York City in 2006. This is the third consecutive year that Alcoa Foundation has awarded a grant to the organization. Alcoan Jonathan Floyd, a financial analyst in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, established the relationship between JRF and Alcoa. Floyd is a JRF alumnus and worked at Alcoa as a JRF scholar before he was hired at Alcoa Corporate Center after graduating from college. JRF was founded by the late baseball legend’s wife, Rachel Robinson, to perpetuate the memory of her husband and his achievements. The organization provides development opportunities for talented minority students with strong leadership capabilities, but limited financial resources. Jackie Robinson helped end decades of discrimination against blacks in baseball after he signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1946.
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