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Citi-St. Louisis comprised of Citi-group, Citibank, CitiMortgage,and OneMain Financial. These busi-nesses employ approximately 4,300 employeesin the area. CitiMortgage is headquartered inSt. Louis and is a division of Citigroup.
Citi Community De-velopment leads Citi’scommitment toachieving financial inclusion and economic em-powerment for underserved individuals, familiesand communities by working with nonprofit andpublic agencies across the country to expand ac-cess to financial products and services, build sus-tainable business solutions and forge innovativepartnerships. We enable people to build creditand accumulate savings; revitalize neighbor-hoods; support the success of small businesses;and enable underserved students to achieve col-lege goals. www.citigroup.com/community
The Citi Foundation supports the economic em-powerment and financial inclusion of low-to-moderate income people in communities whereCiti operates. We work collaboratively with arange of partners to design and test financial in-clusion innovations with potential to achievescale and support leadership and knowledgebuilding activities. Through a "More than Philan-thropy" approach, we put the strength of Citi'sbusiness resources and people to work to en-hance our philanthropic investments and helpimprove communities.
We utilize a results-oriented measurementframework that informs the way we assess theimpact of the programs we fund. Every grant iscarefully tracked to identify ways to ensure suc-cess and understand what works and why. Thisframework helps us define more clearly the re-sults we seek in each of our core focus areas,which include: Financial Capability & AssetBuilding, Microfinance, Enterprise Development,College Success, and Neighborhood Revitaliza-tion.
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American Red Cross – Certificate of AppreciationBig Brothers Big Sisters – Largest Bowling Team
Habitat for Humanity – St. Charles – Gold Hammer AwardMarian Middle School – Corporate Award
MO Community Service Commission – Partner in ServiceNine Network of Public Media – Visionary Award
Normandy School District – Business Community PartnerProgress 64 West –
Excellence in Community DevelopmentSt. Louis City Mayor Francis Slay – ProclamationSt. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley –
ProclamationU.S. Green Building Council – Emerging Leader AwardYouth in Need – Outstanding Community Partner Award• Citi celebrated its 200th anniversary on June
16, 2012 1,475 volunteers participated inour local Acts of Kindness campaign thathelped to spread the spirit of kindnessthroughout St. Louis.
• Civic 50 ranks Citi as Top Bank, Number 2overall for Most Community-Minded U.S.Companies
• Citi employees logged 49,467 2012 volun-teer hours, which has an estimated value ofapproximately $1.1MM (Independent Sec-tor). These statistics mean that Citi-St. Louisis Citi’s largest volunteer site in the entireworld for the fourth consecutive year.
• 158 St. Louis area employees qualified forthe President's Volunteer Service Award
• Citi and its employees provided $1.1MM tolocal non-profits
• Citi Jeans provided $185,885 to area chari-ties in 2012. Since program inception, thecontribution has been $1.96MM.
• Citi provided over $617,000 to the UnitedWay of Greater St. Louis
• Citi employees participated on more than30 boards and committees
• Received community recognition through12 community awards
Citi is committed to being a good global corporatecitizen. We believe that promoting environmental andsocial sustainability is good business practice.
• Our Progress Point facility is LEED Existing Build-ing (EB) Certified
• Our Progress Point facility is Energy Star Certified
• Received the 2012 Emerging Leader Award fromthe U.S. Green Building Council – Missouri Gate-way Chapter
• Received the RCGA’s Circle of Excellence, 2011Award of Merit for the Green Business Challenge
• 45 volunteers participate in the employee-drivenGreen Team
• Created the Citi Supply Room to aggregate busi-ness supplies
• Citi participates in RideFinders
• 706 employees have taken the Green Pledge tobe more responsible consumers
• 77 volunteers participated in 4 a Greener Gameat Busch Stadium
Linda Wendling and Randy Weller accept the Outstand-ing Community Partner Award from Youth In Needs’ PatHolterman-Hommes and Jim Braun
Citi celebrated its 200th anniversary with the unveiling of itsActs of Kindness Mural at Progress West HealthCare Center.
FOCUS AREASFinancial Capability and Asset BuildingDesired Results: to increase the number of low-to-moderate-income adults and/or youth who adoptpositive financial behaviors and accumulate and pre-serve financial assets
Partners/Programs: Beyond Housing and the Nor-mandy School District; College Bound; Connectionsto Success; Junior Achievement; justine Petersen;Magic House; Marian Middle School; Metro St. LouisFinancial Education Collaborative participation; Mis-souri Press Foundation’s Money Smarts; Nine Net-work of Public Media; United Way of Greater St.Louis; Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis; St.Louis Tax Assistance Program; St. Louis Regional Un-banked Taskforce participation.
Through our collaboration (Citi United Way Commu-nity Financial Education Fund) with United Way, theCiti Foundation has funded the Head Start FamiliesFinancial Capacity and Asset Building Pilot. This initia-tive followed the conclusion of our seven-year, over$700,000 funding of the United Way agency financialeducation grants. Agencies were also able to attendSocial Media School through Nine Network of PublicMedia.
Microfinance and Enterprise DevelopmentDesired Results: to increase the supply and use of fi-nancial products that improve and accelerate the fi-nancial inclusion of low-to-moderate-incomeindividuals and to increase the number of micro orsmall enterprises that provide new income generationand / or employment opportunities for low-to-moder-ate-income individuals
Partners / Programs: justine PETERSEN - Citi Microfi-nance Group and Banamex USA’s credit card and cardprocess to address the needs of the underbanked andunderserved. International Institute – asset buildingcapacity.
College SuccessDesired Results: to increase the number of low-to-moderate-income secondary school students who aremeeting the academic, financial and social milestonesto enroll in and complete postsecondary education
Partners / Programs: College Bound; College Sum-
mit; Scholarship Foundation; St. Louis Graduates(founding member); St. Louis Community CollegeFoundation (Gateway to College)
Neighborhood RevitalizationDesired Results: to increase the number of small busi-nesses, affordable housing units or community facilitiesthat contribute to the economic and/or environmentalsustainability of low- to-moderate-income communities
Partners / Programs: Beyond Housing (24:1 Initiative),Focus St. Louis, Habitat for Humanity; Rebuilding To-gether; Regional Housing and Community Develop-ment Alliance; Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis
VOLUNTEERISMCiti employees logged 49,467 volunteer hours during2012, equating to approximately $1.1MM in expertiseaccording to the Independent Sector. Citi – St. Louis is
Citi’s largest volunteersite in the world.
In celebration of Citi’s200th anniversary, Citi-St.Louis hosted an Act ofKindness campaign.1,475 volunteers logged270 Acts of Kindness; col-lected 625 Act of Kind-
ness postcards distributed to the military and those inthe hospitals and nursing homes; packed 9,500 meals;collected 5,004 personal care items; assisted withbuilding 2 Habitat houses; donated over 100 children’sbooks; and collected over 80 no-longer needed wire-less devices. An Acts of Kindness Mural, completedtile-by-tile by 200 employees, now hangs at ProgressWest HealthCare Center. The site also hosted a Com-munity Partner celebration.
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION – Hosted the inau-gural Heart Month activities
AMERICAN RED CROSS – Board member; 520 units ofblood
BEYOND HOUSING - Board member; Major sponsor;24:1 Initiative support; 4 rehabbed houses; SupportedNormandy School District
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS - Board member; 38teams raised nearly $45,000 through Bowl for Kids Sakeand Citi Jeans to support 37 Matches
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - St. Charles – Major spon-sor; 163 volunteers participated in the build
HEAT UP ST. LOUIS –Board member; Majorsponsor; 21 Rise &Shine volunteers; CitiJeans funding
JUNIOR ACHIEVE-MENT – 120 volun-teers supportingCollege Bound, Mar-ian Middle School;Normandy School Dis-trict
NINE NETWORK – Sponsor of Clifford, The Big RedDog; financial education with Clifford and the MagicHouse; 40 volunteers supported pledge drives
MARCH OF DIMES – Board member; March for Ba-bies committee member; Raised over $36,000
MATHEW DICKEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - Boardmember; Sky is the Limit; Global Community Day
MONEY SMART WEEK – Planning Team; Reachednearly 7,000 students through the NIE Money Smartfeatures in the St. Louis Post Dispatch; over 400 stu-dents were reached through the Magic House / NineNetwork of Public Television financial education serieswith Clifford, The Big Red Dog
REBUILDING TOGETHER – Board members; 54 volun-teers rehabbed 4 homes in the Normandy School Dis-trict
ST. LOUIS TAX ASSISTANCE PROGRAM – Majorsponsor; 13 volunteers
URBAN LEAGUE - Board member; Housing Commit-tee member; Young Professionals representation;Adopted 71 families through 100 Neediest; Providedfinancial education
UNITED WAY - Board member; Community ImpactCommittee; Metro St. Louis Financial Education Col-laborative Steering Committee; Raised over $412,000through the Employee Campaign; Employees pledgedapproximately $23,000 to the Citi Financial EducationFund
4 a GREENER GAME – 77 volunteers supported recy-cling at Busch Stadium
OTHER SUPPORT : Girl Scouts – collected 5,004 per-sonal care items that were delivered to St. Louis CrisisNursery and St. Patrick Center; KidSmart – Donated10 pallets of supplies; Race for the Cure – Raised over$22,000. Volunteer support for America Scores; BCI,Food Outreach; Mo’ Cowbell Half Marathon; Opera-tion Food Search; Ronald McDonald House; Sts.Joachim and Ann Care Service (adopted 41 familiesfor the holidays); St. Louis Crisis Nursery
Citi Jeans Our innovative Citi Jeans continuedto provide funding for area healthand human service organizationsthat are selected by our employees.For a $20 donation each month, Citiemployees receive a badge that enti-tles them to wear jeans for the entiremonth. 40 employees volunteer to run the programeach month.
Results: Donated $185,885, the highest annual amountsince the 1999 implementation. Since inception,$1.96MM has been donated to local non-profits in thisarea. 2012 Funded Agencies: 100 Neediest Families,Alzheimer’s Association, Annie’s Hope, Big BrothersBig Sisters, Boys & Girls Club of Greater St. Louis,Cool Down St. Louis, Komen, March of Dimes, Mis-souri Military Memorial Foundation, Ronald McDon-ald House, United Negro College Fund, and UnitedWay.
NETWORKSAFRICAN HERITAGE NETWORK – AmericanHeart Association – Heart Month; Family Giving;Global Community Day; Green Team; Junior Achieve-ment; Money Smart Week; Rise and Shine to benefitHeat Up St. Louis; United Way African American Soci-ety; Urban League financial education
ASIAN HERITAGE NETWORK - Green Team; JuniorAchievement; Global Community Day; United WayMulticultural Society
HISPANIC NETWORK - Global Community Day;Green Team; United Way Multicultural Society
MILITARY VETERANS NETWORK – Global Commu-nity Day; St. Patrick Center personal care item drive
PRIDE NETWORK - Bowl for Kids Sake to benefit BigBrothers Big Sisters; Food Outreach; Global Commu-nity Day; Green Team; March of Dimes
WOMEN'S NETWORK - Global Community Day; Fam-ily Giving; Green Team; Mammography vans; Pots witha Purpose to benefit Race for the Cure; Personal careitem drive to benefit St. Louis Crisis Nursery; UnitedWay Women's Initiative
Volunteers assisted with a Nine Net-work pledge drive.
Catherine French, Site President, TonyRenzi, Managing Director, and ScottTanguay, Managing Director, participatein Global Community Day activities..
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