2010 Sustainability Report - Cummins.com

Corporate responsibility:
building stronger communities
Highlights
Cummins supports hundreds of community
involvement projects around the world.
The Company is extending its Environmental
Challenge to get more employees engaged
in “green” projects in 2010.
Cummins focuses its corporate
responsibility efforts on three priority areas:
the environment, education and social
justice/improving the human condition.
The ways that Cummins employees help strengthen their
communities are as varied as the employees themselves.
Often working in concert with The Cummins Foundation,
one of the oldest corporate charities in the United States,
they initiated projects over the past year to:
Extend electricity to a remote village in India.
Raise environmental awareness in China.
Support a technical school for impoverished
students in South Africa.
Improve the financial stability of a historically
black college in Memphis, Tenn.
Community involvement is nothing new at Cummins.
Next year, for example, the Clessie Cummins Health
Clinic outside São Paulo, Brazil will celebrate 20 years
serving the residents who live in the community of
Guarulhos near a Cummins plant.
Cummins employees worked on hundreds of
projects in 2009 to fulfill the Company’s Corporate
Responsibility Value to “serve and improve the
communities in which we live.”
Longtime Chairman and CEO J. Irwin Miller, who led
Cummins for nearly 40 years, believed passionately
that a company is only as strong as the communities
where it does business. Our Corporate Responsibility
value has evolved since then to become more global
but Cummins’ core beliefs have not changed.
The Company helps build stronger communities today
through Cummins’ network of more than 150 employeeled
Community Involvement Teams around the world
and the Every Employee Every Community (EEEC)
program, which allows employees to be paid for up to
four hours of community work. Fifty-three percent of the
Company’s employees participate in EEEC, donating
over 70,000 hours annually. Despite difficult economic
conditions, United Way participation by Cummins
employees in the United States increased to an all-time
high in 2009, reaching 55 percent.
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