FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: March 22, 2010
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IAAI Foundation, Inc to Bolster
Fire Prevention Efforts with FM Global Grant
Crofton, Maryland—The IAAI Foundation, Inc has received a $10,000 fire prevention grant from FM Global, one of the world’s largest property insurers.
FM Global representatives presented the award to AJ Wilson, Executive Director at the International Association of Arson Investigator's office at 2151 Priest Bridge Drive, Suite 25, Crofton, MD 21114. The award will be used to assist with fire prevention activities in the community to help educate the community and reduce the number of fires.
Because fire continues to be the leading cause of property damage worldwide, during the past 30 years FM Global has contributed millions of dollars in fire prevention grants to fire service organizations around the globe. Locally, the company has awarded grants to a number of Maryland-based organizations.
“At FM Global, we believe strongly that the majority of property damage is preventable, not inevitable,” said Michael Spaziani, manager of the fire prevention grant program. “Far too often, inadequate budgets limit those organizations working to prevent fire from being as proactive as they would like to be. With additional financial support, grant recipients can make a difference in helping to improve property risk in the communities they serve.”
Through its Fire Prevention Grant Program (
www.fmglobal.com/grants), FM Global awards grants quarterly to fire departments—as well as national, state, regional, local and community organizations worldwide—that best demonstrate a need for funding, where dollars can have the most demonstrable impact on preventing fire, or mitigating the damage it can quickly cause.
To learn more about FM Global’s Fire Prevention Grant Program, or to apply for a grant, please visit
www.fmglobal.com/grants.
For 175 years, more than one out of every three FORTUNE 1000 companies and similar-sized organizations operating in nearly 200 countries work with FM Global (
www.fmglobal.com) to develop robust risk management solutions to protect their business operations from fire, natural disasters and other types of property perils. Headquartered in Johnston, R.I., FM Global ranks 766 among FORTUNE magazine’s largest companies in America. The company has been named “Best Property Insurer in the World” according to Euromoney magazine, rated number one “for overall product and service quality” according to Strategic Risk magazine and named “Best Global Property Insurer” by Global Finance magazine.