Cardinal Health Employees Donate More Than $2 Million to Non-Profit Organizations; More Than 1,600 Volunteer at Community Organizations

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:31 AM

Oct. 14, 2009 (PR Newswire) -- DUBLIN, Ohio, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- During Cardinal Health's two-week campaign to encourage employees to give back to their communities, employees donated more than $2 million to local non-profit organizations, and more than 1,600 employees at 71 sites worldwide donated more than 2,800 hours of service through hundreds of volunteer service projects.

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During the company's "Essential to Community Days" held Sept. 14-25, Cardinal Health employees in the United States, Thailand, Mexico and the Dominican Republic undertook a wide range of volunteer projects ranging from serving meals to the homeless and conducting food, book and clothing drives to building community playgrounds and volunteering at animal shelters. Thousands more employees supported Cardinal Health's annual giving campaign by making financial contributions to their favorite local non-profit organizations.

The company also raised more than $2 million for local non-profit organizations through its 2009 annual giving campaign, with employees directly contributing more than $1.3 million and Cardinal Health donating nearly $740,000 by matching employee donations to health care- and education-related causes at 100 percent and to all other eligible 501(c)3 organizations at 50 percent.

During Essential to Community Days, Cardinal Health employees engaged in hundreds of volunteer service projects worldwide. Key examples include:

    --  Employees in Cardinal Health's headquarters city of Dublin, Ohio, joined
City Year corps members and volunteers from several other local
companies to build a community playground; sorted food and conducted
food drives for the MidOhio Foodbank; baked cookies and served lunch at
the Ronald McDonald House; delivered Meals on Wheels for LifeCare
Alliance; cleaned and organized St. Stephen's Community House; painted
facilities, sorted foods and performed maintenance work for Goodwill
Columbus and made decorations for a fundraiser benefiting A Kid Again.

    --  Employees in Albuquerque, N.M., participated in their community's Susan
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