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Disaster Relief Programs Practices A Study of
Corporate Community Involvement in Silicon
Valley May July 2008
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STUDY LOGISTICS OUTCOMES

• Silicon Valley companies were invited to
  participate in an on-line study
• Printed letters were mailed to 52 company
  representatives
• Email communications, with a URL link to the
  survey instrument, were sent to 35 company
  representatives
• Additional outreach was conducted through local
  networks including CCRC, EF Listserv, American
  Red Cross others
• Email and telephone reminders were also utilized
• The original close date of the survey was
  extended to allow for greater participation and
  in response to recent natural disasters
• The survey site recorded 33 visits
• The survey site recorded 18 completed surveys

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RESPONSE EVENLY SPLIT ACROSS REVENUE CATEGORIES

• Note while local headcount was evenly split
  across categories, 77 of respondents reported
  worldwide headcount higher than 5,000 ees.

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POLICY PROGRAM STATEMENTS

• 50 of the respondents have formal policies
• More than half of the respondents are currently,
  or plan to, re-evaluate their existing policy
• Responses were consistent across categories

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DISASTER CATEGORIES RESULTING IN RELIEF

• Relief for disasters within a companys geography
  was most common (1 exception)
• 56 provide relief in other geographies
• 50 of the respondents have formal policies
• 39 support other states of emergency
• No respondent provides relief for technological
  disaster outside their primary geography

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT TOWARD DISASTER RELIEF

• Giving varies by and within revenue category
• Large and small companies do not track relief
• All but three respondents indicated that the
  companys giving budget was discretionary
• 1 company identified a fixed of budget
• 1 company identified incremental
• 1 company identified not sure

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BUSINESS PRACTICES RELATED TO FINANCIAL GIVING

• 78 of respondents provide relief as the need
  arises
• 72 consider the number of individuals impacted
  before providing relief
• 72 use matching gifts to support disaster relief

• Note yellow banding represents grouping by
  revenue category from low to high

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BUSINESS PRACTICES IN DISASTER VOLUNTEERISM

• Mixed practices related to volunteerism
• Paid time off practices
• 4 companies (3 small, 1 large) provide for paid
  time off ranging from 8-40 hrs.
• 5 companies do not give paid time off for
  disaster related volunteerism
• 8 identified discretionary practices
• Unpaid time off
• 72 of respondents allow for discretionary
  practices in unpaid time off
• 2 companies (1 mid, 1 large) do not give unpaid
  time off
• 2 companies (1 small, 1 large) provides for
  specific allocation of unpaid time off
• Other Practices
• 72 indicated disaster related volunteerism is
  incremental to other volunteerism

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BUSINESS PRACTICES IN EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE

• Companies offer some discretionary accommodations
  for employees impacted by disasters 61 formal
  leave, 78 schedule consideration, 67 EAP
  referral, 28 CBO Trend is lower for an
  employees dependent

• Note yellow banding represents grouping by
  revenue category from low to high

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OTHER BUSINESS PRACTICES IN DISASTER RELIEF

• 69 permit employees to champion drives provide
  services or in-kind
• 62 of respondents conduct company wide drives
• 38 of respondents provide product donations

• Note yellow banding represents grouping by
  revenue category from low to high

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STUDY ENGAGEMENT

• Responding companies
• Adobe Systems
• Agilent
• Applied Materials
• Cadence Design
• eBay
• Franklin Templeton
• Hewlett-Packard
• Intel
• Juniper Networks
• Macrovision
• National Semiconductor
• NVIDIA
• Pacific Gas Electric
• Salesforce.com Foundation
• Sanmina-SCI
• Symantec
• Synopsys
• Unknown

• Companies desiring further discussion
• Adobe Systems
• Intel
• Pacific Gas Electric
• Salesforce.com Foundation
• Symantec
• Synopsys

• Companies allowing full disclosure
• Pacific Gas Electric
• Salesforce.com Foundation
• Symantec
• Synopsys

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STUDY NEXT STEPS

• Reporting
• Incorporate comments and interests from Symantec
  meeting into overall package
• Draft Executive Summary
• Includes broader landscape of disaster trends and
  related studies
• Includes items of disclosure
• Share with Synopsys
• Communication
• Release study materials to participants
• Explore Study Launch (potential collaboration
  with Red Cross, etc)
• Explore opportunity for group discussion on
  practices
• Related activities
• EF CI Steering Committees Disaster Tool Kit