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3
COMMUNITY
Staples is committed to supporting the communities where our customers and associates live and work. Our
philanthropic outreach includes both national and grassroots organizations with a focus on education. Through
Staples Foundation for Learning, strategic partnerships, cause marketing and monetary and in-kind donations,
Staples is helping people become contributing members of society who give back to their communities.
Staples Foundation for Learning®
Staples Foundation for Learning (SFFL) supports nonprofit organizations that provide educational opportunities
and job skills training to all people, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. In 2006, SFFL initiated two
new partnerships –– one to expand our impact worldwide and the other to enhance our support of Hispanic
American communities.
xIn 2006, SFFL began a partnership with Ashoka’s Youth Venture program, which teaches youth how to
bring about positive, lasting change in their communities. The SFFL grant helped Ashoka launch the
Youth Venture program in five countries in Europe and South America –– Germany, France, Spain,
Argentina and Brazil — where Staples operates.
xThe foundation also began support of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation’s Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards
(HHYA), which identify and promote the next generation of Hispanic role models; and the Latinos on Fast
Track (LOFT) program, which develops productive and sustainable relationships between top Hispanic
young professionals and America's workforce.
In addition to its new partners, SFFL continued its support of Earth Force, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City,
and Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA). Since the founding of SFFL, Boys & Girls Clubs of America has been
the cornerstone of our foundation’s charitable efforts. This year we renewed our support of BGCA with a new $3
million, 3-year grant in support of the Torch Club program. Torch Clubs provide leadership development to
children aged 11 to 13. With more than 1,000 clubs around the country, Torch Club members elect officers and
implement community service projects. To date, we have contributed more than $6.6 million to BGCA in
monetary and product donations.
The foundation also provided grants totaling $3 million to 209 local nonprofits in 81 communities. The local
nonprofits that Staples supports have a variety of missions, from encouraging talented African-American and
Latino students to pursue careers in classical music to helping high-school dropouts improve their jobs skills.
These local nonprofits include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Jobs for Cincinnati Graduates, National
Foundation of Teaching Entrepreneurship (Babson Park, MA), and the Center for Summer Learning (Baltimore,
MD).
Since its creation in 2002, Staples Foundation for Learning has awarded a total of $9 million in grants to more
than 460 national and local charities that serve hundreds of communities throughout the U.S.
Cause Marketing
Staples also continued its cause-marketing program
Supplies for School Kids
, which encourages Staples
customers to donate money to purchase school supplies for Boys & Girls Clubs of America members in their
communities. Since 2002,
Supplies for School Kids
has contributed nearly $3 million in school supplies to
disadvantaged youth.
Our program raised $750,000 for schools across the U.S. in 2006. This program encourages
teachers, parents and students to collect and send empty ink and toner cartridges to Staples for recycling. For
every eligible cartridge we receive, a participating school earns $3. Staples makes it easy to participate in the
Recycle for Education
program by supplying participating schools with prepaid mailers for their cartridges.
Recycle for Education