Local nonprofit organizations address community needs in Nassau County, Florida with support from Rayonier

Rayonier

December 1, 2020

Rayonier awarded $105,000 to more than 38 local nonprofit organizations to help address key community needs across Nassau County. Recipients of the award were recognized individually this year. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the annual special awards breakfast was canceled.

The recipients will use the funds to help meet a range of needs in the Nassau County community, including civic and cultural, educational, environmental, natural resources and health and human services programs.

From promoting active involvement of fathers in the lives of their children, to establishing new apprenticeship programs or helping students develop the skills they will need to prosper, the Rayonier Community Fund grants help give families the opportunity to thrive.

“I’m extremely proud to support the tireless work of these organizations to help the most vulnerable people in the County,” said Mike Bell, Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications.

Altogether, in 2020 Rayonier, through the Rayonier Community Fund, plans to grant close to $310,000 across the United States. Approximately, one third of those funds will be distributed in Nassau County to the following organizations:

ALL Pro Dads

Amelia Island Book Festival

Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival

Arts Alive Nassau

Baptist Health Foundation Barnabas Center

Boys & Girls Clubs of Nassau County

Community Hospice & Palliative Care

Elm Street Sportsman Association Family Support Services of North Florida

Fernandina Beach High School Foundation

Ferst Readers of Nassau County

First Coast Healing Hands

Institute for Enterprise

Keep Nassau Beautiful

Nassau County Alliance for the Mentally Ill

Nassau County Council on Aging

Nassau County Extension - 4H

Nassau County School District - Career Education

Nassau County Sheriff's Office Charities

Nassau Education Foundation

Nassau Habitat for Humanity

School Board of Nassau County

St. Marys Riverkeeper

Take Stock in Children of Nassau County THATS Foundation The Arc Nassau

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society NE Florida Chapter

The Salvation Army - Hope House

The US Constitution Scholarship Foundation The Westside Optimist Club

Traders Hill Farm

Trinity Love Hoblit Foundation

UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources

The US Constitution Scholarship Foundation

Veterans Council of Nassau County

West Nassau Historical Society

Rayonier (NYSE:RYN) is a leading timberland real estate investment trust with assets located in some of the most productive softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand. We own or lease under long-term agreements approximately 2.7 million acres of timberlands. We also act as the managing member in a private equity timber fund business with three funds comprising approximately 141,000 acres. We are

More than trees because we recognize that our 90+ years of success in the timberland industry comes from our people, an empowering culture and the courage to constantly challenge “the way it’s always been done.” Get to know us at www.rayonier.com.