2007 Sustainability Report - Baxter Sustainability Report

“Employees driveBaxter's volunteerismefforts and support arange of causes aboutwhich they feel strongly.”Alice CampbellSenior Director, Baxter Community Relationsand Work/Life InitiativesCritical Community NeedsCommunities worldwide have diverse needs beyond access to healthcare. These includereducing medication errors and increasing patient safety, enhancing transportation, offeringyouth services, protecting the environment and improving education. To help address theseneeds, Baxter’s business units, departments and manufacturing facilities contributed$20.4 million in 2007 to targeted organizations and causes worldwide, with more than50 percent donated outside the United States.Baxter’s business units and departments also make in-kind donations—such as the useof facilities or equipment—to select organizations, partner with local nonprofit organizationsand business groups, and support employees who donate their talent and expertise to thecommunity. Baxter sites determine appropriate areas of focus to best meet local needs.Employee InvolvementBaxter encourages employees to contribute time and resources to their communities worldwide.Employee involvement takes many forms, including donating blood or volunteering at a localblood drive, serving at a hospital or food pantry, or joining a local nonprofit board or committee.In the United States, The Baxter International Foundation provides grants to qualifiedorganizations when Baxter employees volunteer through the Dollars for Doers program.Past recipients include hospitals and hospices, humane societies, historical societies,emergency shelters, volunteer fire departments, substance-abuse prevention services andyouth service organizations.The foundation’s Matching Gifts program matches employee donations of $25 or more,up to $5,000, to nonprofit, tax-exempt U.S. hospitals and healthcare agencies, schools andcultural organizations. The program matches gifts of $100 to $500 two-for-one. In 2007,the foundation matched more than 2,000 qualifying employee donations to contribute morethan $670,000 to organizations in need.Case study GLOBAL SERVICE PROJECTBaxter announced its most ambitious volunteerism effort ever, the Global Service Project(GSP), in October 2006. The GSP commemorated Baxter’s 75th anniversary by encouragingemployees around the globe to attain a companywide goal of 156,000 hours of volunteertime —equivalent to 75 years worth of community service. By October 2007, employeessurpassed the goal, completing 176,000 hours of personal and company-sponsored volunteerwork. By February 2008, the total exceeded 205,000 hours. Examples of the many volunteerprojects include:BrazilCanadaChinaEmployees taught orphans in São Paulo how to grow vegetables.Employees joined a 12-hour walk/run in Alliston to fight cancer, raisingmore than $120,000.Employees continued Project Hope, teaching 720 school children in theprovince of Chongqing about the world outside China.above Carlos Mojica of Baxter’s facilityin Round Lake, Illinois, United States,donates food to a local food pantry, partof Baxter’s Global Service Project throughwhich employees volunteered morethan 200,000 hours to support worthycauses in their communities.Germany Employees renovated a youth center in Heidelberg to provide teens asafe place in times of family crisis.United States Bicyclists participated in the California Coastal Ride for Hemophilia nearSan Diego, raising $82,000.To learn more about Baxter's employee volunteerism activities and its new global service recognitionprogram, see the full report online.35 sustainability.baxter.com/community_support