API is involved with a wide variety of outreach activities and causes, from improving our local community to supporting charities that have global reach. We believe it more than just being a good neighbor it a fundamental responsibility to give back to those around us. From paycheck contributions to picking up a hammer, API staff members are committed to getting involved and making a difference to those around us.
Fueling Our Community is API's annual fundraising campaign. API employees can provide fuel to one or a combination of the following community charities: Alzheimer's Association, National Capital Area; American Red Cross; Boy Scouts of America, National Capital Area Council; Capital Area Food Bank; Children's Hospital Foundation; Eddie's Club; So Others Might Eat (SOME); Susan G. Komen National Breast Cancer Foundation; or any other charity of their choice. 100% of the donations go directly to the charity. Last year API contributed 50 cents on the dollar up to $100 to the charities that employees selected, even if they were not on the list of seven.
The Power Is in Your Hands campaign was created in 2005 by 23 companies, trade associations and nonprofits to help educate consumers about the benefits of energy efficiency. The organization website, www.powerisinyourhands.org, offers valuable energy efficiency information for homes, transportation, and businesses. API is a significant contributor to the campaign’s overall energy efficiency education effort.
To emphasize the benefits of energy efficiency, the campaign partners created the Six Degrees of Energy Efficiency Web Challenge at www.sixdegreechallenge.org. API encourages all Americans to take the Six Degree Challenge. For more information on API's role in The Power Is in Your Hands campaign, contact Kyle Isakower.
The Everybody Wins! Power Lunch Program is a privately funded reading and mentoring program in which various professionals -- from Congress, the business community, and nonprofit groups -- read once a week with disadvantaged elementary school children during the lunch hour. EW! works with teachers to select as many children as possible who are reading below grade levels, who would benefit from the attention of a caring adult, and who are not read to at home.
API has actively participated in the Power Lunch Program with our next door neighbor, Thomson Elementary School since the program’s conception during the 1995-1996 school year.
Hands on DC is an all-volunteer project that creates better schools and brighter futures for students in the District of Columbia.
The Hands On DC Work-a-thon is an annual event where groups of volunteers from the area do refurbishment work at local schools. Projects include painting, landscaping, cleaning, work on the playgrounds and anything else that can help improve the learning environment for the students. Volunteers do not need any special skills!
Hands on DC is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that conducts an annual citywide work-a-thon to improve the physical condition of Washington, DC public schools, raise funds to support local college scholarship programs, and encourage greater community involvement in the public schools.