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Community & Disaster Relief Metrics
Charitable Giving
FedEx makes philanthropic investments within three core focus areas: emergency and disaster relief, child pedestrian safety, and environmental sustainability. FedEx also supports strategic community investments in education and diversity as well as local-market efforts that support team members’ community service initiatives.
Watch a video about the FedEx and ORBIS International Flying Eye Hospital.
Learn more about the collaboration between FedEx and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Charitable Shipping
Overall, FedEx donated space for 5.2 million pounds of charitable shipping globally in FY11. Converting this donation, FedEx Express transported the equivalent of 87 planes (Boeing 757Fs) in donated aid. A total of 142 truckloads and 57 LTL (less-than-truckload) loads were transported through FedEx Custom Critical and FedEx Freight.
Watch this video to see two pandas arriving in China.
Read a press release recapping our relief efforts in Haiti one year after the earthquake hit.
Learn more about a FedEx team member’s effort to help the high school students in Joplin, MO.
American Red Cross
FedEx has provided in-kind shipping, financial support, and volunteers to the American Red Cross for 17 years. We are its largest transportation donor and are recognized as the backbone of its U.S. disaster logistics system. In FY11, we donated shipping for 1,000,000 pounds of supplies.
Learn more about how FedEx and the American Red Cross team up to help small businesses prepare ahead of disasters.
First Robotics
FedEx celebrated our 10th year of providing shipping support for FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) by donating team-built robot crates. Total shipments equaled 800,000 pounds of in-kind shipping in FY11. Our collaboration with FIRST Robotics encourages students across the globe to embrace technology, innovation, and forward-thinking.
Read more about how FedEx is investing in the future with FIRST Robotics.
Direct Relief International
FedEx supported the delivery of 2,309 shipments to Direct Relief International's healthcare partners. In total, these shipments weighed
366,453 pounds and contained $37.1 million (wholesale) worth of medicines, medical supplies, and equipment. Direct Relief supports more than 1,000 clinics and health centers every year, with shipping donated by FedEx.
Hear more from Direct Relief International about their impressions of FedEx.
FedEx Cares Week
Each fall, FedEx team members around the world participate in FedEx Cares Week, a volunteer event that benefits local communities and the United Way. In FY11, events across the globe allowed more than 3,400 FedEx team members to volunteer their time. Projects range from refurbishing and beautifying local attractions, building playgrounds, and painting childcare centers to sorting and organizing food donations at local food banks.
Read a recap of our fall 2011 FedEx Cares Week activities.
Safe Kids Walk This Way
Together with Safe Kids Worldwide, FedEx established the Safe Kids Walk This Way program to teach drivers and child pedestrians about safe behaviors and to create safer, more walkable communities. Hundreds of thousands of children, teachers, and parents each year join FedEx volunteers to celebrate International Walk to School Day activities, including mass walks to school and educational programs.
Read a recap of Safe Kids Walk This Way events around the world in the fall of 2011.
