January 24, 2005

ISSUE 1047

FFVA MUTUAL DONATES $100,000 TO FOUNDATION

FFVA Mutual Insurance Company contributed $100,000 Friday (January 21) to the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation. Morgan Roe, chairman of Mutual's board of directors, and Craig Menzl, FFVA Mutual Insurance Company president and CEO, presented a check for the amount to FFVA Chairman Tony DiMare at FFVA's winter board of directors' meeting at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate.

"The foundation makes possible agricultural research and grower education programs that help Florida's fruit and vegetable industry remain competitive," said Roe. "Moreover, the foundation channels funding to programs that directly benefit the farmworker community with education, child care and other family services."

FFVA Mutual Insurance also donated $100,000 to the Foundation last year.
The Foundation funds programs that benefit growers of specialty crops as well as the communities in which they operate.

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