Employee Involvement
Baxter encourages employees to volunteer time and contribute personal resources to improve lives in communities worldwide.
Employee involvement takes many forms, including donating blood or volunteering at a local blood drive, serving at a hospital or food pantry, or joining a local nonprofit board or committee. Baxter supports team-building exercises that serve community needs, such as community center clean-up days or home improvement projects for needy families. The company’s internal volunteerism website allows employees to track volunteering and community activities.
In the United States, The Baxter International Foundation provides grants to qualified organizations when company employees volunteer through Baxter’s Dollars for Doers program. Past recipients include hospitals and hospices, historical societies, emergency shelters, volunteer fire departments, substance-abuse prevention services and youth service organizations. In 2006, 67 Dollars for Doers recipients received a total of about $26,000.
Baxter employees also contribute financial resources to worthy causes. The Baxter International Foundation Matching Gift program matches employee donations of $25 or more, up to $5,000, to nonprofit, tax-exempt U.S. hospitals and healthcare agencies, schools and cultural organizations. The program matches gifts of $100 to $500 two-for-one. In 2006, the foundation matched 1,300 qualifying employee donations to contribute a total of more than $570,000 to organizations in need.
