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FedEx is one company that takes giving to the next level.  They give 1.5% of their profits back to communities, and more specifically they use their shipping expertise to get help to those who need it the most when they need it the most.  Here are just a few highlights:

  • Each year, FedEx sets aside space for more than 4,000,000 pounds of charitable shipping.
  • FedEx provided more than $1.8M in-kind and cash support for the earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, including in-kind charter flights to support global relief efforts from agencies including Red Cross, World Vision, Heart to Heart International, Direct Relief International, The Salvation Army and Water Missions International. Within one day of the earthquake FedEx had committed $425,000 in cash to support Haiti relief efforts. Within seven days FedEx transported more than 520,000 pounds of relief supplies and within the first month FedEx transported more than 1 million pounds of aid shipments.
  • Working with the relief organization Heart to Heart International, FedEx has established four global forward-response centers to pre-stage relief supplies that can be quickly transported to people affected by a disaster. These centers allow Heart to Heart to get supplies where they’re needed immediately (anywhere in the world within 24-72 hours). Each center is stocked with 60 to 80 pallets of basic relief supplies: shelter, drinking water and medical supplies. The stock is automatically replaced once deployed, which takes advantage of the efficiency of our network.  In 2007 alone, FedEx helped move $107 million in medical supplies to impoverished areas around the world (See www.hearttoheart.org).
  • FedEx Corp. is responding rapidly to the recent cholera outbreak in Haiti and the pending hurricane by assisting non-profit agencies with disaster relief deliveries to Port-Au-Prince.  Ten water purification systems were airlifted to Haiti last week and twenty more systems are being flown from Miami to Haiti for Water Missions International (WMI), in addition to FedEx providing in-kind transportation for the needed components within the U.S.  Each of these portable water treatment systems can provide clean water for 5,000 people each day, potentially saving some 150,000 Haitians from water-borne illnesses (See FedEx).

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