Collectively, the Macy's Foundation, the company and its divisions (and the May Foundation in 2006) contributed more than
$36 million in 2006. Gifts were directed in large part
to our core giving areas of arts and culture, education,
HIV/AIDS awareness and research, minority issues and
women's issues.
An additional $38 million was donated by our associates
and our customers last year during our United Way
campaigns and through the "give back"opportunities in
our stores such as charity shopping days, Shop For A Cause,
and Thanks For Sharing.
Macy's, Inc. Corporate and Foundation Contributions in 2006 Included:
- Support for the capital campaign of the University of
Miami/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to expand
the diagnostic imaging facilities in the university's
gynecological/oncology center.
- Funding for the New York City Partnership Foundation, Inc.
(The Fund for Public Schools) program to train great
principals for New York City's most challenging public
schools. The project has provided training and mentoring for more
than half of the city's 1,400 school principals, producing
a new generation of school leaders who are committed
to achieving the reform objectives championed by the
Mayor of New York.
- Gifts to the American Red Cross to help with disaster relief
in Nashville as the result of tornado damage in spring 2006.
- A grant to the Fox Cities Sick Child Care Program, which is
part of Child Care Resource & Referral, Inc., a Wisconsin-based
agency that provides child care for single parents
when children become ill and the parent must be at work.
- Support for the California Pacific Medical Center
Foundation, which provides integrated health and healing
services for people with cancer, heart disease and HIV/AIDS
who are underserved by the medical community. The
Center works to reduce pain, improve the ability
to handle stress and anxiety, and deal with the emotional,
physical and spiritual challenge of illness. Services are
provided by medical doctors and other practitioners
such as acupuncturists, yoga therapists, nutritionists and
a chi kung master.
- A grant to the Shepherd Wellness Community, located
in western Pennsylvania, to help provide dinners
to those affected by HIV/AIDS. This Wellness
Community chapter serves more than 6,000 meals each
year to residents of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and
11 surrounding counties. In addition, our grant helped
create three support groups recently: a group for those
who are HIV-positive, a group for persons affected by HIV,
and a support group for HIV-positive heterosexuals.
- A gift to the New Jersey State Police Survivors of the
Triangle, which provides resources to assist in rebuilding the lives of surviving families of law
enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
- A grant to The Children's Diabetes Foundation in Denver,
which funds many of the programs at the Barbara Davis
Center for Childhood Diabetes. The clinical team provides
care for more than 5,000 patients – including 3,400 children –
making it one of the largest diabetes centers in the world.
The Center provides comprehensive clinical care delivered by
a team of 15 doctors, 11 diabetes nurse educators, four
dieticians and two social workers, and has an on-site eye
clinic. Care extends after hours to unlimited phone/fax/email
consulting between visits and a 24/7 physician advice
hot line.
- Support for the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis to
help empower African Americans and others throughout
the region to secure economic self-reliance and civil rights.
- Funding through Our Daily Bread for the Ohio "Employment Stabilization
Program" to help the unemployed understand basic job
expectations and maintain a job that promotes a future of
self-dependence. The program was based on a growing
group of "helpers" who were from the surrounding
neighborhoods of Over The Rhine in Cincinnati who
worked in a food kitchen, learned to interact with others,
and worked to grow beyond the kitchen job. This fostered
pride and a determination to improve and move on.