Basic Health
Helping children in need
The Owens Corning Foundation joins our team members in India to provide basic assistance for the children of migrant construction workers. The financial support helps to provide basic nutrition, education and a safe place for the children while the parents work. Our partner charity, Mumbai Mobile Creches, has been dedicated to this work since 1972.
Metroparks Toledo
Owens Corning is a lead supporter of the Glass City Riverwalk project, which is transforming the Maumee riverfront with 300 acres of new and revitalized green space. The project will include five miles of multi-use trails spanning both sides of the Maumee River from Veteran’s Glass City Skyway to the Anthony Wayne Bridge. Featuring fully accessible park elements, it will become a place for the community to connect with trails and green space reaching East Toledo, the Vistula neighborhood and the Warehouse and Central districts.
The transformation will restore more than 90 acres of industrial or vacant land to natural space by planting thousands of new trees, creating wetlands and other sustainable features. With waterfront access for boating and kayaking, a rock-climbing area, interactive water attractions, urban camping, and winter skating—Metroparks Toledo will help keep the community active all year.
Glass City is the start of bigger things to come, and a destination in its own right. A glass pavilion with rooftop plants and plazas, a sledding hill, walking paths, an event lawn for 5,000 people and incredible views of the city, the new park is a go-to spot beside the largest river on the Great Lakes — the Maumee.
Nutrition
According to Feeding America, more than 48 million people, including 14 million children experience food insecurity in the United States. The usDA defines food insecurity as a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life. This can be a temporary situation for a family or can last a long time. To combat food insecurity in the communities where our people live and work, our teams have packed or served more than 2,145,451 meals for those in need since 2016.
Toledo Zoo & Aquarium
Project PRAIRIE extends the Wild Toledo prairie initiative into local classrooms by utilizing the flower installations as living labs. It is an inquiry-based education program that trains students and their teachers to use native prairie habitats for citizen science projects that contribute to a larger body of global research to make a difference in the natural world. Toledo Zoo conservation staff installs urban prairie on the property of participating schools while Zoo education staff trains teachers and students to use the prairies for citizen science, inquiry learning projects and follows up with related classroom programming.
There are currently over 30 Toledo area schools participating and information is shared among schools through various citizen science platforms.