Meta’s Post

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Altoona, when I first moved here back in 1977, was about 5000 people and were roughly 23,000 now. But it still feels a little bit like that small community. We have this very innate sense of banding together. I think everybody would say that about Altoona, that we're super supportive. We're very much partners with everybody that's in our community. I've seen so many changes here in the city of Altoona since media came to town, and it's been an incredibly wonderful, prosperous opportunity for both of us. Our data Center Community Action Grants are one of the ways Meta gives back to the communities that have welcomed us. The nonprofits and school systems right here in Altoona are the heart of our community. We're proud to support their impactful missions. Over the last 10 years, we've been able to give 150 grants. That's 150 projects in the Altoona community that have affected an exponential number of students, families, organizations, kiddos who started at five years old, who are now 15 years old. We're hopefully going to take these skills into the workforce and into the larger community. Of Altoona in Iowa. One of my favorite things about being involved in this program is to hear directly from our teachers and our community partners just the impact it can have. The Meta grants that we have participated in has been really great for our district. Meta has really helped us to have a vision of what our students going to need for things that we don't even maybe know what the problems are going to be of the future, but we need to have the tools and, and Matt has been a great partner for that. We have leveraged Meta grants to completely redo this room. So it's an opportunity for all of our kids to come in and work on STEM. We have been receiving grants for the entire length of the program. And we realized that Meta was really wanting to make an impact. And so we started thinking bigger and that really brought us to where we are now, which is we're doing much bigger projects because I think that it resonates with Meta and their goal and how they see themselves in the community. The Altoona Area Chamber of Commerce has been super fortunate to be able to count on Meta in our community. To partner with Meta and our community and to collaborate with Meta to make Altoona and Eastern Polk County one of the best places there is to live and work. Employee. I think that one of the things that our community doesn't realize about Meta is how hands on they are in our community. Medicines volunteers every summer to our program. They're helping feed our students, they're interacting with them in the classrooms and it's just really cool that MET is not only giving us those Community Action grants to make sure that our kids have access to. From my learning institute programs, but they're actually seeing the good that those creates do and they're participating in our community. We know these projects have made a big difference in Altoona over the last 10 years and Meta is so proud to support them.