3.1: Donations, Volunteering, Empowering Others

Other Information:

2012 Total $18,099,751

Stakeholder(s):

• SAS Volunteers
  • Volunteering (Performer): As an integral part of SAS culture, employees are encouraged to donate their talent, time and/or money to projects supporting education, the environment and social welfare. In 2012, SAS employees volunteered more than 22,100 hours through the Employee Volunteer Fund (EVF), resulting in more than $74,000 paid to schools across the US, primarily in North Carolina. EVF is a special volunteer program that provides cash contributions to educationbased nonprofit organizations where an employee has provided at least 50 hours of volunteer support in three out of four quarters over a 12-month period.


• UNC-TV: UNC-TV Festival 2012 -- SAS volunteers helped raise $160,248 for UNC-TV, the statewide public television network. Volunteers from SAS and The Umstead Hotel and Spa answered 368 calls during the SAS challenge from 8 to 11 p.m. The evening was part of UNC-TV's annual fundraiser, which SAS has been a part of for the last 13 years. Since 2000, SAS has helped raise more than $2.1 million for public television.
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• IDeaS
  • Home Building Service (Performer): For the past six summers, employees from IDeaS, a SAS company based in Minneapolis, have volunteered building a home for a family in need through Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity. In 2012, two teams donated 200 service hours on projects including installing exterior siding, interior insulation and drywall.


• Habitat for Humanity
  •  (Beneficiary)


• SAS Stem Volunteers
  • Information Sharing (Performer): SAS STEM Career Day -- SAS STEM volunteers entered schools and shared information about their careers, how they chose their career paths, and how SAS and SAS customers use math, science and technology worldwide. The primary goals are to generate more student interest in STEM careers and STEM courses, to help students see the connection between what they do in school and an exciting STEM career pathway, and to familiarize them with the varied careers in STEM fields at SAS and other leading corporations.


• Schools


• Reedy Creek: Empowering Others -- SAS strived to empower others in 2012 through projects such as the Reedy Creek STEM Career Day, Ready by 21 and more. More importantly, SAS products have made a significant impact on businesses and organizations in their ability to achieve their goals. JMP' software has facilitated organizations in producing clean energy, bolstering women entrepreneurs and protecting biodiversity by providing automated techniques for data mining and predictive modeling with great accuracy and flexibility.
  •  (Beneficiary)


• Ready by 21
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• Becky Brown: Employees like Becky Brown exemplify going above and beyond to live and breathe the corporate culture of SAS. She teaches computer classes and helps teach a jobs skill course at the Raleigh Correctional Center for Women as one of 10 mentors who participate in a 16-week class called Jobstart.
  • Teaching (Performer)


• Raleigh Correctional Center for Women
  •  (Beneficiary)


• SAS' Alliance Relationship Team
  • Relationship Building (Performer): The Alliance Relationship Team (ART) at SAS has a commitment to building professional relationships. They gave back to the community by hosting their first ART Gives Back event at Dress for Success in Durham, NC in 2012. Dress for Success promotes economic independence for disadvantaged women, helping them with every facet of getting a job, including wardrobe, coaching, mock interviews and résumé preparation.


• Durham, NC
  •  (Beneficiary)


• SAS Staff
  • Community Board Memberships (Performer): SAS staff takes the company's corporate responsibility values outside of the corporate walls by sitting on the boards of a variety of community organizations that support education, disaster relief efforts, the arts, science innovation, environmental conservation and several other issues important to employees... The following is a list of some of the boards that SAS employees served on in 2012:


• American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union Executive Council
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• Atlantic Council
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• Business Education Board: added August 2012
  •  (Beneficiary)


• Cary Academy
  •  (Beneficiary)


• Council of Americas
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• Dept. of Computer Science Strategic Advisory Board at NCSU: Board Emeritus
  •  (Beneficiary)


• Environmental Defense Fund National Council
  •  (Beneficiary)


• Friday Institute for Educational Innovation: (NCSU)
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• Institute for Emerging Issues Education Council: (NCSU)
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• Kids 'N Community Foundation: Carolina Hurricanes
  •  (Beneficiary)


• LEARN NC
  •  (Beneficiary)


• Marbles Kids Museum
  •  (Beneficiary)


• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
  •  (Beneficiary)


• North Carolina Community College System
  •  (Beneficiary)


• North Carolina Museum of Art
  •  (Beneficiary)


• North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences - Friends
  •  (Beneficiary)


• Public School Forum of North Carolina
  •  (Beneficiary)


• North Carolina Science Festival
  •  (Beneficiary)


• North Carolina State University - Board of Trustees
  •  (Beneficiary)


• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Advisory Board
  •  (Beneficiary)


• The Center for International Understanding Council
  •  (Beneficiary)


• The Nature Conservancy Africa Advisory Council
  •  (Beneficiary)


• United States Council for International Business - Executive Committee
  •  (Beneficiary)


• University of North Carolina Board of Governors
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• Wake Education Partnership
  •  (Beneficiary)


• World Wildlife Fund
  •  (Beneficiary)


• YMCA of the Triangle
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