Supporting Vital Community Causes

CVS has long funded children's causes, and our colleagues have readily volunteered their time in support of such efforts. In 2005, we took our efforts to the next level by launching the far-reaching "CVS All Kids Can" program. In partnering with organizations such as Easter Seals® and National Center for Boundless Playgrounds®, CVS is committing significant financial resources to making life easier for children with disabilities.

The CVS/pharmacy Charitable Trust® continues to support the needs of many other organizations as well. Through our partnership with America's Second Harvest®, we support more than 5,000 food banks and shelters. Our alliance with the American Red Cross® and regional relief agencies enables us to respond to disasters, offering greater access to pharmacy services when a community is in distress. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we donated more than $1 million in money and supplies and set up mobile pharmacy operations in Texas for evacuees at the Houston Astrodome, the Convention Center in Austin, and Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio.

As always, CVS remains committed to higher education. We provide scholarship funding to dozens of pharmacy schools and to the children of our own colleagues through the CVS/pharmacy Corporate Scholarship Program.