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Community Outreach
Supporting the community is integral to our business. We appreciate that
the stronger the community is, the stronger our Bank can be. Quite simply, our
employee family lives and works where our customers do, so we have a vested
interest in building vibrant communities.
PHILANTHROPY
We were the rst nancial institution in the United States to establish a
corporate foundation in 1948. e Fih ird Foundation funds non-prot and
community organizations focused on education, community development, health
and human services, and the arts, including signicant funding for United Way. In
2012, the Bank’s corporate and employee donations to United Way totaled more
than $9 million. e Foundation also provides annual college scholarships to our
employees’ children and matches employee gis to institutes of higher learning.
Our Company also operates a separate Foundation Oce, through which we
administer 70 private and family foundations.
VOLUNTEERISM
Our employees make the Bank’s greatest impact in the community. ey
augment our nancial community sponsorships by getting personally involved
in causes ranging from walks supporting physical and mental health to various
improvement and beautication projects. On May 3 of each year, our entire
employee family celebrates Fih ird Day – or 5/3 on the calendar – by feeding
the hungry in our 12-state market. In 2012, employees provided more than
360,000 free meals to needy families.
SUSTAINABILITY
We respect our natural environment. We introduced recycling to an addition-
al 2,500 employees at 21 facilities in 2012, an eort that built upon a landmark
recycling and food scrap composting program launched a year prior at our
5,000-employee campus in Cincinnati, Ohio. We now have ve LEED certied
banking centers and have incorporated LEED requirements into future branch
builds. Our greenhouse gas emissions have fallen 17 percent since 2007 while our
support for green power, in the form of Renewable Energy Certicates (RECs),
increased from 3 percent to 30 percent between 2011 and 2012.
INVESTMENTS
e Bank funded $391.9 million in aordable housing and community
redevelopment projects through the Fih ird Community Development
Corporation, and funded economic growth through investments of $977,500
through our Enterprise Investment Fund.
e 2012 Corporate Social Responsibility Report will be available in May 2013.
Fifth Third Bank’s North Carolina
employees collected and sorted food
to support the 2012 BANK-TO-BANK
Food Drive benefiting the Second
Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina.