2010 Annual Report - The Carlyle Group

To strengthen our ties to the communities where we live and work,Carlyle developed the One Community and Wealth Sharing programs.One Resourcewealth sharingOne Communitycommunity volunteeringOur One Community volunteer and Wealth Sharing programs are rooted in theOne Carlyle philosophy of working together to create positive change. One Communityprovides Carlyle employees with the opportunity to use their talents to volunteer incommunities in which they live, work and invest. Our Wealth Sharing Program supportsCarlyle employees in their charitable giving by matching on a dollar-for-dollar basis up to$2,000 per year for contributions made to educational and humanitarian organizations.One WorldCorporateGovernanceOne Community is a flexible, locally focused initiative. All Carlyle employees are giventwo working days per calendar year to volunteer. We support a range of volunteer programsin diverse workplace geographic diversity and cultural contexts. Employees are encouraged to arrangegroup volunteer activities that foster the One Carlyle collaborative spirit by workingtogether with other Carlyle colleagues across disciplines and teams. As a firm, we haverecently partnered with several organizations, including Junior Achievement (JA) andHabitat for Humanity.JA is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforcereadiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-onprograms. In Washington, DC, 40 Carlyle employees participated in the “JA in aDay” Program at Ferebee-Hope Elementary School on May 7, 2010. Co-Founder andManaging Director Daniel A. D’Aniello led the inaugural event kicking off Carlyle’s volunteerpartnership with JA. In Beijing and Shanghai, Carlyle employees are working withOne ResourceOne WorldJA on its Student Company wealth program. sharingIn London, employees participated workplace in their first diversityvolunteer events with JA since the launch of our partnership. Carlyle employees plan tovisit more local schools in 2011.Habitat for Humanity partners with communities to find appropriate, long-termhousing solutions. Since it was formed in 1976, Habitat for Humanity has helped buildsome 400,000 homes and has served more than two million people. In 2010, Carlyleemployees from our Washington, DC office partnered with Habitat for Humanity tohelp refurbish two homes. Employees from our Seoul office have participated in fourHabitat for Humanity activities.Also in 2010, staff members from our Washington, DC office volunteered with SOME(So Others Might Eat) and served meals for the homeless and poor. Forty-five employeesfrom the Tokyo office volunteered with Special Olympics Japan and JEN, an organizationthat supports people suffering as a result of disaster or conflict. These activitiesare all part of the Tokyo office’s annual effort underway since 2005 to promote theactive involvement of all staff members in office-wide “Volunteer Days.” In May 2011,employees from our office in Charlotte, North Carolina, donated school supplies toHidden Valley Elementary School through the city’s A Child’s Place program.58 The Carlyle group