Community Giving
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Serving
our Community by Serving Our Customers
We donate over half of our after-tax profits — more than 68 times the national corporate average — to Community Based Organizations (CBOs). These groups include health, art & culture, environmental, education and human services organizations. With almost $4 million in donations, we are ranked as one of Northern California's largest corporate donors.
Our customers and staff choose how funds are allocated to these CBOs through our annual balloting process. The nonprofits that receive the most votes get the largest donations. In addition to voting, any customer or employee may nominate new organizations through our Grant Request Process. Each year we rotate new nonprofit organizations onto our ballots.
The nonprofits below use our donations to improve quality of life in our communities:
Challenged Athletes Foundation
Loaves & Fishes
Sierra Adoption Services
East Bay Agency for Children
Family Service Agency of San Francisco
These are just a few of the hundreds of nonprofits to which we have donated since our inception in 1991. See a complete list of last year's donation recipients.
You've just invented the Therapeutic Nursery Schools of the East Bay Agency for Children. This agency provides services and counseling to at-risk emotionally disturbed children. The goal, quite simply, is to give these children a chance.
