MISSION
Improving Mine Safety & Health
Through funding research and development projects by qualified academic institutions and other not-for-profit organizations…
In The Know
Quick Fact
Since it began grantmaking activities in 2013, the Alpha Foundation has supported a portfolio of research that comprises 114 projects awarded to 35 institutions.
Impact
The Non-Prosecution Agreement that created the Alpha Foundation was extremely groundbreaking and ingenious in redirecting retribution monies from the mining industry back into directly supporting miner safety and health.”
Keith Heasley, Alpha Foundation Director and C.T Holland Professor, West Virginia University
