Rayonier
Press Release
November 5, 2019
Rayonier awarded more than $162,000 to 35 local nonprofit organizations to help address key community needs across Nassau County. Recipients of the company’s Community Fund grants were recently recognized at a special awards breakfast hosted by Rayonier on Friday, November 1, 2019.
The recipients will use the funds to help meet a range of needs in the Nassau County community, including civic and cultural, educational, environmental, natural resources and health and human services programs.
“There are wonderful organizations in this room. Thank you for all the great work you do.” said Commissioner Justin Taylor (District 5), Nassau County Board of County Commissioners, speaking to the Rayonier 2019 grant recipients.
Among the programs made possible thanks to the support of these grants are a robot lab program for 3rd through 6th graders, workforce development apprenticeships and environmental education and conservation programs.
“Rayonier’s community involvement is a great source of pride for me personally, the company, as well as our employees” said Mark Bridwell, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
Among those present to congratulate recipients were Rayonier representatives; Nassau
County Board of County Commissioners: Commissioner Justin Taylor (District 5); Nassau
County Sheriff Bill Leeper; Nassau County School District: Superintendent Dr. Kathy Knight Burns, Donna Martin (District 1 Board Member), and Gail Gook (District 2 Board Member); and, Ocean, Highway & Port Authority: Commissioner Michael Cole (District 5).
Altogether, in 2019 Rayonier plans to grant close to $300,000 across the United States. More than 55% of those funds will be distributed in Nassau County to the following organizations:
Amelia Island Book Festival
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival
Arts Alive Nassau
Baptist Health Foundation Barnabas Center, Inc.
Big Brothers Big Sisters NEFL
Boys & Girls Clubs of Nassau County
Camp Kesem at FSU Community Hospice & Palliative Care
Family Support Services of North Florida
Fernandina Beach High School Foundation
Ferst Readers of Nassau County
First Coast Healing Hands Inc Florida Forestry Foundation Institute for Enterprise, Inc.
Keep Nassau Beautiful
McArthur YMCA
Nassau County Alliance for the Mentally Ill
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Nassau County Council on Aging
Nassau County Extension – 4H
Nassau County School District – Career
Education
Nassau County Sheriff’s Office Charities
Nassau Education Foundation
Nassau Habitat for Humanity St. Marys Riverkeeper
Take Stock in Children of Nassau County The Ark of Nassau
The Salvation Army – Hope House
The US Constitution Scholarship Foundation
Traders Hill Farm
Trinity Love Hoblit Foundation United Way of Northeast Florida
University of Florida Foundation Inc
West Nassau Historical Society
White Oak Conservation Foundation
Rayonier (NYSE:RYN) is a leading timberland real estate investment trust with assets located in some of the most productive softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand. We own, lease or manage approximately 2.6 million acres of timberlands. We are More than treesTM because we recognize that our 90+ years of success in the timberland industry come from our people, an empowering culture and the courage to constantly challenge “the way it’s always been done.” Get to know us at www.rayonier.com.