2003 Corporate Citizenship Awards Recipients

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International American Chamber Community Service Award
The American Chamber of Commerce in Jamaica

AmCham Jamaica has focused its efforts on addressing the safety concerns of the international community.  AmCham Jamaica's "Heal Jamaica" Initiative provided assistance and support to the Government of Jamaica and the Jamaica Constabulary Force to reduce crime, thereby improving Jamaica's international image.

U.S. Chamber Community Service Award
Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce    

The Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce's  Eastern Shore Business Leadership Network (ESBLN) is a public-private partnership to connect employers with skilled and trained, but disabled, workers. The goal is to provide these  residents with the dignity and independence of self-sufficient employment while also providing employers with skilled and motivated workers.  From 1998 to 2002, the ESBLN has helped area disabled worker service agencies increase their placement by over 300 percent.  

Citizenship in Action Award
Deloitte

Following the events of early 2002, Deloitte assumed leadership in helping restore trust in the accounting profession, confidence in the capital markets, and faith in the business community of the future. Deloitte—together with Junior Achievement— seized the opportunity to respond to a serious social issue: the need for early ethics education among our nation's youth. The Excellence through Ethics program aims to teach students in grades 4 through 12 that responsible, ethical behavior is the cornerstone of the American free enterprise system. The program also provides them with the tools and training they need to become the ethical business leaders of tomorrow. Excellence through Ethics will reach as many as three million students each year.

Corporate Stewardship Awards

Small-size Company—Annual revenues less than $50 million
Manufacturing Technology Inc. (MTI)

Manufacturing Technology Inc. supports two programs to serve its community.  MTI's employees have volunteered 6,586 hours during the past 12 months to local, regional, and national civic, charitable, and volunteer organizations, and MTI has grown sales by 32% over the past year.

Medium-size Company—Annual revenues between $50 million and $500 million
Salesforce.com/Foundation

Since its founding in 1999, Salesforce has averaged 100% revenue growth year over year.  Salesforce.com has pioneered a holistic and integrated approach to community involvement through which it strives to create value for the traditional shareholder as well as the national and global communities in which it operates. Employees are strongly encouraged to give four hours of volunteer service hours per month, which equates to 48 hours a year.   Salesforce.com has created over 400 jobs globally.  Employees donate 1% of their work time to the Salesforce foundation and 1% of Salesforce's revenues go to the foundation as well.

Large-size Company—Annual revenues greater than $500 million
Merck & Co., Inc.

Merck is a global research-driven pharmaceutical products and services company.  Merck discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human and animal health.  Over the past decade, Merck's sales have grown from less than $14 billion in 1993 to $51 billion in 2002 and its earnings have tripled.  Merck supports a broad range of activities intended to improve access to life-saving medicines in developing countries. Among other community initiatives, Merck has created the Mectizan  Donation Program a unique, multi-sector partnership established in cooperation with governments, international agencies, and non-governmental organizations to benefit areas where onchocerciasis, a disease more commonly known as river blindness, is endemic.