WAMC: Pioneer uses Giving Tuesday to fund 19 Capital Region non-profits

20 $5,000 grants will go to 19 organizations that support children in need, with four of them supported by Pioneers with Purpose grants funded by donations from Pioneer employees.

Announcing those grants at a ceremony, Pioneer President and CEO Tom Amell says grant recipients help support the Pioneer Charitable Foundation’s mission of 'Helping Kids be Kids.'

'We want to provide them with the food, the clothing, shelter, the education, the safety, a warm bed. Those are our problems as adults. We own those for our children, right? So as Pioneer, we're taking those on for our kids as much as we can, so a kid can just be a kid,' Amell said."