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Community Development
Anchorage,Alaska – $100,000 grant for affordable housing
through the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation’s seventh annual
Focus Communities Initiative.Wells Fargo team members raised
an additional $1,400 for Cook Inlet Housing Authority.
Oakland,California – $6 million investment in the East Bay Asian
Local Development Corporation for Preservation Park,a renovated
Victorian-style business park that provides affordable office space
to non-profits facing eviction.
Pueblo, Colorado – 35 home improvement projects. Wells Fargo
partnered with NeighborWorks, a non-profit that provides affordable
housing,education and down payment assistance.Team member
Brad Ahl led a group of co-workers to help paint the trims and
garages of 35 homes during their annual Operation Paintbrush event.
Mission, South Dakota – $125,000 to help families of the Rosebud
Sioux Tribe.Wells Fargo team members are working with Habitat for
Humanity to build five homes on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
Team member Samantha Keller used the company’s new online
tool, VolunteerWellsFargo!, to recruit over 75 volunteers.
Austin,Texas – $20,000 so far to help 10 families buy first homes.
Wells Fargo supports the Austin Area Urban League’s new down
payment assistance program.Low-income individuals who complete
a free,monthly workshop receive $2,000 in down payment assistance.
Brigham City, Utah – $17,500 grant and eight new homes. Wells Fargo
provided a grant to the Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Agency
for affordable housing.Wells Fargo team members volunteered
every Saturday for seven weeks to help build homes.
Richmond,Virginia – 700 African American adults attended a free
workshop on practical approaches to financial management,
including homeownership and saving for retirement.This was one
of 23 wealth-building seminars held around the country in 2005.
Education
Phoenix, Arizona – Every week, two dozen Wells Fargo team members
visit students at Lowell Elementary School as part of the Big Brothers
and Big Sisters “Lunch Buddy” mentoring program.Team members
also raised $15,000 to renovate the school’s playground.
Fort Wayne,Indiana – For the tenth year in a row, Wells Fargo
sponsored the YMCA Celebration of Youth event. Every year eight
students receive a $700 college scholarship from Wells Fargo in
honor of their community involvement activities.
Las Vegas, Nevada – $50,000 to teachers in 17 schools. Wells Fargo’s
“Grant a Wish for Your School” program awarded up to $3,000 each
to teachers across the state for special classroom projects focused
on financial literacy, math, technology and careers.
Chester, Pennsylvania – 720 backpacks and $5,000 grant. Team
members from Wells Fargo Auto Finance partnered with the Junior
League to kick off the school year in style.Team members visited
Columbus Elementary School and gave each student a backpack
filled with school supplies.
Milwaukee,Wisconsin – A decade of support. Wells Fargo worked
with the Greater Milwaukee Committee and other business leaders
to create the School Partnership Program.The program helps
prepare young people for their future by teaching them healthy
financial habits and other life-skills. During the past 10 years, over
100 team members have volunteered.
Environment
San Francisco, California – Energy consumption reduced by
20 percent at Wells Fargo’s buildings throughout California since
2001.Wells Fargo modernized the energy management technology
at its headquarters building and earned the Energy Star Award
from the Environmental Protection Agency for being among the
top 10 percent of the nation’s most energy-efficient buildings.
Santa Ana, California – For the second year, Wells Fargo participated
in the California Coastal Commission’s Coastal Cleanup Day.Thirty-
two team members helped clean up two miles of coastline,picking
up over 50 bags of trash and debris.
Beaverton, Oregon – 15,000+ red wiggler worms are helping
reduce and recycle waste at Wells Fargo’s William Barnhart Center
(operations and customer service).The “worm ranch”residents
eat up to 20 pounds of fruits,vegetables,coffee grounds and
other leftovers every day from the cafeteria, and their castings are
recycled for fertilizer.
Human Services
Los Angeles,California – $20,000 grant and seven school makeovers.
240 Wells Fargo team members helped celebrate Mayor Villaraigosa’s
100th day in office by lending a hand during a “Day of Service.”
Volunteers helped seven local schools get a much-needed face lift
by planting flowers, cleaning up graffiti and painting classrooms.
Boise, Idaho – 114 computers for K-12 students thanks in part to a
donation from Wells Fargo to Computers for Kids, a non-profit that
upgrades computers for children in need.Fourteen Wells Fargo
team members volunteered to deliver the computers.
Minneapolis, Minnesota – $50,000 to help the developmentally
disabled become more independent. Team member Gary Johnson
won the Wells Fargo Volunteer Service Award on behalf of Reach
for Resources, where he volunteers and serves on the board. He is
one of 164 team members awarded $321,000 in grants in 2005
for their designated non-profits.
McKinney,Texas – 2,000 hurricane evacuees sheltered. When
Jack Haye of Wholesale Banking learned that his community
would be providing shelter to Hurricane Katrina evacuees,he
stepped up to the plate. Haye managed a shelter and helped
coordinate hundreds of volunteers to collect and distribute
donations and provide disaster relief services.
Seattle,Washington – Two years of board participation and $25,000
in financial support. Wells Fargo donated a 9,000 square foot former
banking store to Domestic Abuse Women’s Network for its office
space.Team member Jennifer Politakis serves as a board member.
Casper,Wyoming – $33,500 raised for United Way. Wells Fargo regional
president Michael Matthews rallied team members to donate funds
during the annual Community Support Campaign. Each donation
earned them a two-foot section of duct tape which was later used
to tape community bank president,Tom Kugler, to a wall.
Newfoundland, Canada – 1 new laptop. When Wells Fargo Financial
Canada team member Valerie Clarke heard about a bedridden
young man with Crohn’s disease whose computer broke down,
she teamed up with Lion’s Club to give him a new laptop.