SMACNA & SMART collaborate to help disadvantaged students

The chosen charity for the 2022 Partners in Progress Conference was Project 150, an organization created out of the community’s desire to help homeless high school students. At the core of Project 150’s mission is the goal of providing support and services to this group of disadvantaged youth. Project 150 hopes to equip vulnerable students with the tools and resources needed to continue school and be successful in life.

SMACNA and SMART local unions stepped up in a big way. Kelli Kristo, the executive director of Project 150, thanked the entire SMART-SMACNA family “for the generous donation of funds and goods.” Kristo continued, “Your contribution of $25,425 in funding and $8,300 in food provided 1,349 family meal bags, including family-sized non-perishable breakfast, lunch, and dinner items to feed a family of four.”

Project 150 wishes to convey its thanks to the following organizations and individuals who donated cash:

• SMART Local Union 104 — $5,104.00
• SMACNA — Western Washington — $2,556.54
• SMACNA — $2,500.00
• SMACNA of Southern Nevada — $2,500.00
• SMART Local Union 33 — $2,500.00
• SMART Local 265 LMCC — $2,265.00
• SMART Local 73 LMCC — $2,045.30
• SMACNA of Long Island — $2,000.00<
• Georgia SMACNA — $1,022.80
• SMART Local Union 105 — $1,000.00
• Western Allied Mechanical — $511.55
• SMART Local Union 219 — $500.00
• Vidimos, Inc. — $204.81
• SMART — $153.68
• KSM Metal Fabrication — $102.56
• SMART Local Union 2 — $102.56
• XP360 — $102.56
• Miller Bonded Inc. — $102.56
• Big B Contracting — $102.56<
• SMACNA — $51.43
• SMART Local Union 71 — $50.00
• SMACNA Utah — $50.00

Food donations were received by Project 150 following the conference and amounted to more than three pallets of food.

SMACNA would like to thank everyone involved for their generous donations.