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no. 16
We never abandoned our values
OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO
THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH WE WORK AND LIVE
Everything else in this report has been about what changed
over the past nine years. This is about what didn’t.
Long before there was an Internet, before computers,
or semiconductors, or even vacuum tubes, there were ethics,
corporate citizenship, social and environmental responsibility
and fairness.
We make our business in the high-tech revolution of the
networked world. But we built our business on a system of
beliefs. These values transcend the progression of one gener-
ation of technology to the next
—
or, for that matter, of one
generation of people to another.
Of course, as the needs within communities changed, so
did the nature of our philanthropic efforts, or the way we
applied our expertise and technologies. We adapted the
approach, but never the underlying principles.
So perhaps this last decision is really more of a pledge,
or a promise that a company and its people make to the
institution, and to one another: To remain faithful to values
that never change. And to remember
—
at every step of the
journey
—
who we are, and what we stand for.
In 2001
ibm contributed more than $127 million to programs around
the world that help people in need
individual employees contributed another $51.2 million through matching
grants and donations to nonprofit organizations and institutions
ibmers volunteered more than 4million hours of time and expertise
to a broad range of local causes
ibm continued its commitment to improve the quality
of k-12 education throughout the world with its $70 million
reinventing education grant program
u.s. environmental protection agency presented ibm
the 2001 energy star®“excellence in corporate commitment”award
during the past six years,ibm has increased its number of women
executives worldwide by 246 percent