TD Bank Financial Group - Corporate Responsibility Report
Community
Employee Involvement Across the U.S.
Generosity of Spirit
Our employees make a massive contribution to their communities across the U.S., volunteering countless hours and donating millions of dollars for causes we support and those dear to their hearts. Below we showcase just a few examples from 2008:
- March of Dimes: For more than ten years, we have been the statewide sponsor of the March of Dimes March for Babies event held each spring in Maine. In 2008, 170-plus employees raised more than US$54,000. Employees participate at walk sites and run fundraisers throughout the state, as well as organize awareness days held at bank locations.
- Tour de Brooklyn: In spring 2008, TD Bank provided financial and volunteer support of Transportation Alternatives’ Tour de Brooklyn event, a day-long campaign organized to bring the issue of pollution to the forefront and to showcase the diversity of the borough’s neighbourhoods. All residents of Brooklyn were invited to use their bikes instead of motorized forms of transportation. More than 2,000 riders rode 18 miles of the borough’s waterfront, celebrating the resurgence of the Brooklyn waterfront and green space. TD Bank volunteers handed out water to bikers as they rode by local TD Bank stores.
- Neighborhoods Now: Neighborhoods Now’s Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative was developed as a holistic approach to stabilize and strengthen Philadelphia neighbourhoods through a collaboration of community-based organizations, business partners and residents. TD Bank officers and employees served on the board and various committees, took part in neighbourhood beautification and cleanup projects and volunteered more than 1,000 hours of financial literacy training.
- Rebuilding Together: In April 2008, TD Bank employees and their family members joined Rebuilding Together Bergen County’s staff to help paint and repair the Spring House, a rehabilitation centre for women recovering from addiction, which is located on the campus of Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus, New Jersey. Rebuilding Together Bergen County is a local affiliate of Rebuilding Together, a national, not-for-profit, volunteer organization that works in collaboration with communities and local businesses to rehabilitate owner-occupied, low-income homes — particularly for the elderly, disabled and families with children.
- American Cancer Society — Relay For Life: TD Bank was the leading statewide sponsor of the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life events in Vermont. Relay for Life events raised US$1,669,000 in 2008 to support cancer research, education, advocacy and patient support. TD Bank provided teams for nine of Vermont’s 14 Relay For Life events and employees served on planning committees for the Chittenden and Windham County relays. The American Cancer Society estimates the impact of TD Bank’s volunteerism and fundraising work to be in excess of US$50,000 annually.
- Alzheimer’s Memory Walk: For the second year, we were the Signature Community Sponsor of the National Memory Walk, organized by the National Capital Area Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Since 1989, Memory Walk has raised more than US$225 million to help those battling Alzheimer’s disease. To support the efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association, TD Bank provided US$10,000 in in-kind services and hosted “Early Bank Nights” at three of our stores to allow team captains to drop off the funds that they’d raised and collect their team materials. More than 60 of our employees participated in the 2008 walk and raised in excess of US$3,000 for the cause.
- City of Philadelphia Spring Cleanup: TD Bank employee volunteers helped bring Mayor Michael Nutter’s pledge to make Philadelphia one of the cleanest cities in America one step closer on Philly Spring Cleanup Day. More than 30 volunteers gathered at their assigned area in West Philadelphia, where they swept, raked and picked up trash and debris. Philly Spring Cleanup Day was the largest single-day, city-wide cleanup event on record. Volunteers removed 2.56 million pounds of trash, more than 48,000 pounds of recyclables and 186 abandoned vehicles — and cleaned an estimated 5,000 neighbourhood blocks!
