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COMMUNITY WELL-BEING
A Trusted Community Partner: Corporate Giving
Our corporate philanthropic priorities focus our giving and community support activities to create a deeper, more
meaningful impact in the areas where we live and work. Our philanthropic support is in four key areas: disaster
preparedness and response, meeting families’ basic needs, education and workforce development, and environmental
preservation. Our commitments in these areas helps us be a good neighbor and trusted partner in the more than 400
communities in which we live and work, while creating the most value for our diverse stakeholders. In 2020, this included
assisting our communities as they struggled to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Disaster Preparedness Meeting Families’
and Response Basic Needs
Safety is a core value of Martin Marietta and a key Our mission statement says we provide the
sustainability focal area. In line with our foundation upon which our communities improve
uncompromising commitment to the safety and health and grow. It’s hard for communities to flourish if
of our people and our neighbors, we support working families are struggling to make ends meet.
programs that help our communities prepare for and As such, we support programs focused on meeting
respond to disasters, and that bring aid to our the basic needs of families, including food, shelter
communities when in need. and access to healthcare.
Education and Workforce Environmental
Development Preservation
An educated and skilled workforce is critical to a Environmental stewardship, a core value of Martin
community’s foundation and to the future of Martin Marietta, embodies our commitment to making
Marietta. We support educational programs that help tomorrow’s world better than today. We support
people develop the knowledge skills, and expanded projects that provide tangible improvements to the
views that will help them succeed and contribute to environment, such as ecosystem conservation and
society. Additionally, we support programs that restoration, improvements in air and water quality,
provide young or transitioning adults with training and waste reduction, and conservation education.
technical skills to equip them for satisfying and
productive careers.
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