NSC Gets Funding Match
The Natural Stone Alliance pledged late last month to match industry contributions to the NSC in 2011 on a dollar-for-dollar basis up to a maximum of $100,000. Currently, the NSC reports 2011 pledges at more than $30,000.
The industry group will use the funding in its efforts to certify and promote the sustainability aspects of natural stone.
At its Jan. 24 meeting in Las Vegas during StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas, the NSC’s board of directors re-established several key committees to support one of the primary NSC initiatives of funding and promoting the development of an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Dimension Stone Standard. This global effort will establish a credible sustainability certification program and environmental standard for natural stone.
Other key committee work will focus on improved awareness and promotion for both the NSC and its efforts to position natural stone as a sustainable and preferred building material. Publicity, website and video-development teams will work to ensure the message behind the NSC’s collective effort is well-documented, explained, and reaches its audience.
The board also elected Brenda Edwards of TexasStone Quarries as NSC chair for 2011. Other officers elected for this year are Harry Triebe Sr. of Sonny and Sons Stone Co. as vice chair; Jim Owens of the Indiana Limestone Institute as treasurer; and Jane Bennett of the Building Stone Institute as secretary.
To learn more about the NSC, go here; support under the matching contribution program can be made with this form. For more information, contact Edwards or NSC Executive Director Duke Pointer.
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