PPG Employee Helps Flying Horse Farms with Involvement, Donations
STRONGSVILLE, OH – Inspired by the grace of a daughter who succumbed to cancer at age 12 and strengthened by a father’s unwavering love, John Lewis, Market Manager of Programs and Services for the North American commercial coatings group of PPG Industries’ automotive refinish business, now helps other children with serious illnesses leave their sickness behind while enjoying a transforming experience at Flying Horse Farms.
Through a PPG Industries Foundation employee program called Grant Incentives for Volunteerism by PPG Employees and Retirees (GIVE), Lewis has garnered $1,000 a year for the camp in Mt. Gilead, OH, which hosts up to 2,500 ill children each year at no cost to their families. These grants recognize Lewis’ service as a Flying Horse Farms board member; he is currently the board’s chair. Separately from this direct support of his involvement, the foundation has donated $5,000 to the organization for each of the last two years and $10,000 this year on behalf of the company’s Strongsville, OH, automotive refinish operations, where Lewis works.