Why establish an NFPA foundation?
There are more good causes than funds: Members of NFPAs Education Committee, Board of Directors and staff are learning more and more about how the association can be involved in assuring that tomorrows work force is learning about fluid power today. We are discovering that teachers and researchers across the country are eager to begin and/or further develop the work they are doing that is directly relevant to hydraulics and pneumatics. Much more is happening that we ever imagined! One measure is the growth in our schools/university members. That membership has grown from one in 2000 to 34 in 2007. Another is the number of requests we receive for helpthere are many more than we can fund. NFPA would like to be in a position to regularly answer to every request recommended by our Education Committee at each member school, but right now we cant, we simply dont have enough money. On average, we can only disburse approximately $200,000 per year from the Education Fund. Our goal is to more th
