Successful community service depends upon passion and initiative - something that Xerox people around the world clearly possess. Whether it is educating children, making donations or mailing care packages, employees are contributing their time and talents across a range of diverse community causes. In addition to doing a world of good, these activities support one of the core values Xerox has upheld since its inception: We behave responsibly as a corporate citizen.

Here are some recent project examples.

Expeditions to Africa
Luis Heras, a production color marketing manager for Xerox Spain, has always enjoyed his trips to Africa. Now he leaves something behind whenever he visits. "The people there deal with hard conditions, especially where health, nutrition and education are concerned," Heras says.

Now his trips are more accurately described as expeditions. In 2006, he and Alfonso Garcia, a fellow employee, delivered supplies to two impoverished towns deep in Morocco's desert. They made the 2,000-kilometer trip in nine days. With no roads, Heras says, they had to cross a lot of sand. Coworkers donated toys and baby clothes while Xerox Spain donated two tons of medicine and school supplies.

The Xerox UK Trust
The Xerox UK Trust makes donations to several charities registered in the United Kingdom. Preference is given to charities that have the support or involvement of Xerox employees, including:

• Slough Jets Ice Hockey Club & Haringey Ice Hockey Association Charity, which promotes a healthier lifestyle for children through ice hockey, ice-skating, and figure skating. Xerox employee Karen Ciccarello helps organize events at the charity. The money is used to defray expenses for needy children who otherwise would be unable to participate.
  
• British Divers Marine Life Rescue, a charity that enables divers to mount rescue efforts for marine mammals that are stranded on the U.K.'s coastline. Employee Joy Bryceson is also a trained marine mammal medic. The grant money helps fund the organization's rescue and tagging program.

Outreach in Brazil
Rio de Janiero's Vila Olimpica is an outreach program that receives support from Xerox do Brasil. The program provides children ranging in age from 8 to 18 years old the opportunity to play Olympic sports such as soccer, basketball, swimming, and gymnastics. Xerox's Brazilian operating company helps fund the athletic equipment, meals, transportation, instructors' compensation, therapists, and membership fees for sport federations.

Raising Money in Canada
Employee Erin Schnepper put her sales experience to work for the Weekend to End Breast Cancer in Toronto. Seventeen Xerox people raised $50,000 in 2005, and Schnepper wanted to double both amounts for 2006. She recruited employees from most Xerox operations, and 40 Xerox people ended up raising $103,000. The entire event raised $17 million for Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital.

Meantime, Kizzy Kaye and seven coworkers helped raise $2,000 for one of the Saint John (New Brunswick) Theatre Company's productions. In addition to helping raise funds, Xerox people were involved in the play - onstage and off.

Support Across America

• Employee Heidi Pennington understands how valuable care packages and letters are to service personnel. The U.S. Army veteran registered at www.AdoptaPlatoon.org and committed to sending one care package per month and to be a pen pal to a soldier serving in Iraq. Then she took responsibility for another, then another, then spearheaded a care package drive at her American Legion post in Canandaigua, N.Y. Pennington says the post has sent more than 56 packages and the donations continue to pour in, including from her Xerox coworkers.
  
• For the past two years, a Xerox assembly line in Webster, N.Y., turns into a toy workshop for one day in December. The project was initiated by employees who operate a service group called the Good Neighbor Community Program. Don Miller, chairman of the program, says Xerox people donated money to buy the 100 tricycles and 6 bicycles that were assembled at Xerox. The project is called Bikes for Tykes and the toys are distributed to local Rochester agencies as well as one in Djibouti, Africa.
  
• Nicholas Adams, a Xerox services support manager in Phoenix, works with the National Marrow Donor Program. He has registered as a marrow donor and he encourages his friends and family to register as well. Adams also encourages people to initiate recruitment drives at their businesses, civic organizations, health fairs, or places of worship. He figures that his extended team has registered over 700 volunteer donors across the United States.
  
• Xerox people in Charlotte, N.C., helped raise money for the new Levine Children's Hospital. Xerox people worked the telephones, sang Christmas carols, and cheered as the DJs urged listeners to call and make donations. The radio-thon raised more than $320,000 for the new hospital.
  
• Employees at Xerox Special Information Systems in Monrovia, Calif., and Arlington, Va., donated 51 pairs of eyeglasses to the Give the Gift of Sight program, which provides free vision care and eyewear to underprivileged people around the world.