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Employee Volunteer Initiatives—Programs & Actions
ACTION
ACTION (Alcoans Coming Together In Our Neighborhoods) is an Alcoa employee engagement program managed by Alcoa Foundation. The program encourages teams of five or more Alcoa employees to spend a minimum of four hours on a community service project for a local nonprofit organization or NGO. As recognition of their efforts, Alcoa will make either a US$1,500 or a US$3,000 unrestricted grant (depending on the size of the team) to the organization.
In 2006, 8,264 employees provided 35,487 hours of community service through the ACTION program, earning the organizations they served nearly US$1.6 million in grants.
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Bravo!
Bravo! is another Alcoa employee engagement program managed by Alcoa Foundation. Its purpose is to recognize the volunteer efforts of individual Alcoans in their communities. Once an Alcoa employee volunteers at least 50 hours at a nonprofit or non-governmental organization, a US$250 grant is awarded to that organization. Each employee may submit one Bravo! application per calendar year.
Qualifying organizations include nonprofit civic, health, social welfare, educational, cultural, community, or governmental organizations that provide a charitable service. Organizations based outside of the United States must be publicly supported and must serve a charitable purpose.
In 2006, Alcoa provided nearly US$1.2 million in Bravo! grants to recognize nearly 470,000 volunteer hours by our employees.
The combined impact of the ACTION and Bravo! programs involves 6,733 grants totaling nearly US$3 million to organizations in 28 countries, representing more than 500,000 hours of volunteering in communities.
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Month of Service
Alcoa's annual Worldwide Month of Service is a company-wide event that recognizes and encourages the efforts of the thousands of Alcoa employees who volunteer in their communities around the world. It serves as a unified timeframe for all at Alcoa to work in teams and individually to help nonprofit and non-governmental organizations with their efforts to improve the quality of life in communities in which Alcoa operates worldwide. Matching this employee volunteer time with Alcoa grants extends the value of Alcoa's and Alcoa Foundation's community investments and builds strong engagement with the communities where Alcoa is located.
More than 15,000 Alcoa employees from 36 countries and more than 200 communities volunteered their time as part of the October 2006 Month of Service. Expansion of this program in 2006 from a week to a month nearly doubled participation (up from 7,680 in 2005) and ensured a diversity of volunteering efforts and engagement from employees, families, and community members who joined in the Month of Service volunteer effort.
The Month of Service has raised the profile of Alcoa's volunteers and volunteering efforts around the world, with more than 36,734 employees, family members, contractors, and community members participating in 2006 events.
The theme for the month was conservation and sustainability, and more than 100 events were dedicated to restoration, rehabilitation, and education to increase the quality and understanding of the local environment. A further 125 events were dedicated to improving health and safety in local communities.
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Case Studies
Alcoa Volunteers Help Students Create Sustainable Futures
Bravo! in Action
Jamalco Book Blitz Part of Alcoa's Worldwide Month of Service
Partnership Revitalizes Community, Preserves Australian History
Dedicated Alcoa Volunteers Plant Trees for the Long-Term
Employee Volunteers Take Action at Honduras Children's Shelter
Keeping Schoolchildren Safe and Healthy in Guinea
Turning Employees into Community Volunteers in Russia
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