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12 Ford Motor Company | 2009 Annual Report
Many women, students and elders received care during a medical outreach
program, a collaborative effort of the Sanjeevi Medical Health Center, The
Rotary Club of Madras South West and Ford of India volunteers. An x-ray
machine, donated by Ford volunteers, is the only one functioning in the area.
Celebrating its 15th year of support for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure®,
Ford illuminated its World Headquarters pink to show support for breast cancer
patients and survivors. Ford’s Warriors in Pink campaign is designed to recognize
the strength and courage it takes to deal with the everyday challenges of fighting
breast cancer 365 days a year.
The Ford Mobile Food Pantry vehicles were designed to provide
much-needed support for food banks to pick up and distribute
food to areas where there is not a standard food distribution point.
The concept was launched in Detroit and will be expanded to a
number of cities across the U.S. The demand for food in the U.S.
has increased dramatically and this effort will help to distribute
food which otherwise might go to waste and to areas that have no
traditional food resource network.
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Ford Transit Connect
Mobile Food Pantry
Over 110 volunteers from Ford of Germany are saving precious
historical records from the Cologne Archives. Some records,
over 1,000 years old, were buried when 30 km (18.6 miles) of
the city Archives collapsed.
Through a MODEL Teams mini-grant, 17,857 pounds of food
was purchased, enough groceries to feed 416 households
for one month. Ford volunteers sorted, organized and
stocked the shelves with the food purchased.
Ford Driving Skills For Life has provided
a series of global events focused on
advanced, hands-on training from some
of the world’s top professional instructors.
´Ford Motor Company employees, creating a better world
Ford employees around the world continue to build a legacy of community
involvement where they live and work. They volunteer their hearts, talents and
time to projects that benefit children, adults and families in need. In 2009,
they built, planted, cleaned, fed and walked for causes great and small.
Through volunteerism, Ford and its employees are creating a better world,
one neighborhood at a time.
Ford Motor Company Fund and
Community Services
Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services is committed to creating
opportunities that promote philanthropy, volunteerism and cultural diversity
for the communities where Ford does business.
Established in 1949 and funded by Ford Motor Company, Ford Motor Company
Fund supports initiatives and institutions that foster innovative education,
auto-related safety and American heritage and diversity. The Ford Volunteer
Corps, established in 2005, continues Ford’s legacy of caring worldwide.
Through the Ford Volunteer Corps, Ford employees participated in more
than 1,000 volunteer projects in 2009. Those projects were filled by more
than 20,000 Ford volunteers, equaling more than 100,000 volunteer hours -
the equivalent of $2 million of human resources pumped into communities.
During Global Week of Caring, held during September 5-12, 2009, Ford
volunteers in 44 countries volunteered on six continents.