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Making a Positive Impact on Our Communities
The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust awarded grants to more than 90 nonprofit organizations in 2009. Among them, the Southwest Autism
Research & Resource Center (left) in Phoenix, Arizona, advances research and provides a lifetime of support for individuals with autism
and their families. Thanks to a $10,000 grant, the Woonsocket, Rhode Island, YMCA (center) initiated a swimming and safety instruction
program for children with autism. The Premier Kids program at Chicago’s La Rabida Children’s Hospital (right) assists special needs kids
from birth to age six.
From our commitment to CVS Caremark communities to
a special donation to Feeding America, we contributed
$79 million in monetary grants, in-kind donations, and
volunteer hours to deserving non-profit organizations
all across the United States in 2009.
The CVS Caremark All Kids Can™ program remained one
of our top priorities. It represents a five-year commitment
to making life easier for children with disabilities. We
achieve this by supporting organizations that help these
children learn, play, and succeed in life. One such
recipient – Boundless Playgrounds® – creates extraordi-
nary playgrounds where all children, with and without
disabilities, enjoy independent, self-directed activity at
their own level of ability. We’ve helped build more than
60 playgrounds in cities across the country, and many
more are currently under development. Other All Kids
Can partners include Easter Seals, VSA arts, Special
Olympics, and Meeting Street.
In addition to our focus on children with disabilities, our
grants help provide medical services for the uninsured,
funding for pharmacy schools, and scholarships for the
children of CVS Caremark colleagues. We also support
the spirit of volunteerism among our colleagues. The
CVS Caremark Challenge Grant Program provides cash
grants to nonprofits where our colleagues volunteer.
More than 300 of these grants were awarded in 2009,
impacting organizations in more than two dozen states.
Last year, through the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, we
also provided grants to more than 90 nonprofit organiza-
tions across 27 states and the District of Columbia. One of
the recipient organizations, Women of Means, provides
free health care for women and children in Massachusetts
homeless shelters. Its work has proven critical in an
economic environment that has cost thousands of people
their homes and resulted in increased demand for health
care in area shelters.
Among our other initiatives, we’ve supported the mission
of the ALS Therapy Alliance by raising more than $19 mil-
lion since 2002 through a campaign in CVS/pharmacy
locations. We have also raised $19 million since 2004
through an annual, in-store campaign to support the newly
renovated CVS Caremark Rehabilitation Services Center,
which opened in 2009 at St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. To learn more about
CVS Caremark’s community efforts, please visit us at
http://info.cvscaremark.com/community.
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