Price’s Creameries Awards Grants To Schools

Price’s Creameries held their eleventh annual “Give ‘Em Five” Fund awards ceremony Thursday at the El Paso Marriott.

The ceremony awarded over $300,000 in grants to schools and nonprofit organizations across the Borderland. Over the past eleven years, over $3 million has been awarded to these recipients.

Ginger Kerrick, NASA’s first Hispanic flight director, was the guest speaker at Thursday’s ceremony. She told the audience, which included kids representing schools receiving the Price’s grants, about following and achieving their dreams regardless of any hurdles they might face in life.

Kerrick charmed the audience with her wit and humor, and told them about her journey with NASA. She said she had been dreaming of a career with NASA since the age of five and wrote a letter to the agency when she eleven, asking how she could realize her dream.

The “Give ‘Em Five” fund program has two parts – the Cap and Lid Program and the Grant Program. In the Cap and Lid Program, students collect the caps from all of the Price’s fluid products, such as milk, orange juice, and fruit drinks,as well aslids from all of Price’s ice cream and sherbet products.

The students turn these caps and lids into their schools and their schools in turn give them to Price’s, who writes a check directly to the school. The check amount is determined by the total number of caps and lids at five cents each.

In the Grant Program, the public buys Price’s and Country Charm products, and for every gallon of milk sold, four cents are put into the fund. All Price’s products are assigned a specific value for this fund, and the deadline for accepting grants is October 15th of each year.

For more information on the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” grant program, please call (915) 565-2711.