Corporate Responsibility

Global Day of Service

In 2010, we completed our fifth Global Day of Service. Our employees around the world took a half day off to volunteer in their communities on the Global Day of Service.

Themed Green & Global, this year's event engaged more than 6,600 employees in 37 countries to work with over 300 non-profits and included volunteer projects focused on sustainable solutions for improved education and the environment.

Projects covered a broad range of activities including: an electronics recycling event in Shanghai, China; a woodland conservation project in Wiltshire, England; painting a youth sports court in São Paulo, Brazil; and development of a green business case study for high school students in Chicago, United States.

One tree was planted through Carbonfund.org for every employee that volunteered. Four additional trees were planted for employees who reused a previous Motorola t-shirt for the Global Day of Service. Tree planting was concentrated in areas of countries that recently experienced natural disasters, such as China and Haiti.

In addition to environmentally conscious efforts, projects provided a diverse range of opportunities to benefit the community through activities such as painting playgrounds, gathering books for orphans and working in battered women’s shelters.

Through the Global Day of Service, over the past five years, we have:

• Donated more than 166,000 volunteer hours to our communities around the world
• Made an impact in 275 cities
• Planted 60,000 trees through our 2008-2010 partnership with Carbonfund.org