Community Investment

Fairmount Minerals’ success is firmly rooted in the success of our communities. Our neighbors play an important role in our business — they afford us the social license to operate, which contributes to our prosperity and supports future growth. In turn, we take pride in sustaining and enriching our communities.

In 2010, we met a longstanding goal of our organization, with more than 500 family members participating in volunteer activity. Based on our January 2010 headcount, every Fairmount family member donated time and energy to a charitable cause. All Fairmount Minerals locations hosted a volunteer Day of Caring, which helped provide opportunities for our family members to get involved. Throughout the year, Fairmount family members donated in excess of 8,600 hours of volunteer time by participating in activities including blood drives, roadside clean-ups, assisting the elderly, and hosting local fundraising dinners. To help support a skill-based volunteerism campaign and connect family members to specific volunteer opportunities, we also launched a company-wide skills assessment survey. We believe that we can leverage the skills of our family to meet specific needs in our communities.

Every year, we aim to find an area of focus for our volunteer activity and charitable giving. In 2010, we focused on contributions to emergency services in every Fairmount Minerals community, donating more than $700,000 to local hospitals, fire departments and emergency response teams. We also trained several Fairmount family members on disaster response protocol and local emergency management.

Fairmount Minerals invested 1.55 percent of our pre-tax, pre-equity earnings to community organizations in 2010 and exceeded our goal of touching 100,000 lives. In 2011 we hope to focus on education and give back to our communities through learning opportunities.