Beyond the cup. - Starbucks

Supporting Our Partners’ Community EffortsFrom Seattle to Shanghai, our partners have demonstratedtheir strong desire to engage in their local communitiesthrough volunteerism. Starbucks volunteer program inthe U.S. and Canada – Make Your Mark (MYM) – wasintroduced five years ago as a way to encourage and supportour partners’ volunteer efforts. Through MYM, Starbucksmatches our partners’ volunteer efforts by donating $10for every hour volunteered to the designated nonprofitorganization, up to $1,000 per project. If our partners enlistthe help of customers, Starbucks matches their volunteerhours, too. Since its inception, MYM has inspired our U.S.and Canadian partners and customers to volunteer morethan 792,000 hours for thousands of local communityorganizations. That’s equivalent to about 380 people workingfull-time for one year. (See graphs below.)Starbucks also encourages our U.S. and Canadian partnersto make their own charitable gifts with support from thecompany’s gift-matching program, Choose to Give! Starbucksmatches our partners’ charitable gifts, dollar for dollar, upto $1,000 annually. In fiscal 2005, 2,196 of our partners’charitable contributions were matched with $532,000from Starbucks.The nonprofit organization Keep Houston Beautiful not only received cash supportfrom Starbucks in 2005, it also got help from some Starbucks partners in Houstonwho volunteered on Earth Day, including Maggie Suarez (left) and Mary Voorhies.Make Your Mark * Includes 110,000 hours and $697,000 for September Make Your Mark, a unique volunteer program that took place in 2003.39SOCIETY