CORPORATE VOLUNTEER WORK
Corporate Responsibility Report 2008
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IN MEXICO Volunteer activity in Mexico is
but one more link in the BBVA
Group’s community investment in this country. In
2008, BBVA Bancomer approved its new Corporate
Volunteer Plan. The focus is on education, regarded
as the most effective way to promote the social
integration of the most underprivileged members of
society and thus of creating better future prospects
for them. In 2008, 1,465 employee volunteer
activities were carried out.
Volunteer activity in Mexico
Por los que se quedan
(For those left behind),
a scholarship program
for social integration)
The Knowledge olympics
Other volunteering areas
TOTALS
(1) Total volunteers during and outside of working hours.
The focus of BBVA Bancomer Volunteers is
similar to that of its Spanish counterpart, with
three areas of activity:
• BBVA Bancomer programmes
• other opportunities announced by NGOs
• employee initiative competition
One of BBVA Bancomer’s most noteworthy
programmes has been its “godfathers and
Volunteer activities in Latin America
During Outside
working of working Number of
hours hours volunteers (1)
390 390
947 947
128 128
947 518 1.465
Country With During Outside of
payslip working working Number of
contributions hours hours volunteers (1)
Argentina Other volunteer areas 27 27
Chile Niños Adelante 76 267
Other volunteer areas 2,000 150 493
Colombia Other volunteer areas 1,700
Panama Other volunteer areas 43 43
Paraguay Niños Adelante 52 52
Peru Niños Adelante 4
Other volunteer areas 32 36
Puerto Rico Niños Adelante 4
Other volunteer areas 348 8 90 102
Uruguay Niños Adelante 5 16
Other volunteer areas 11 16 48
Venezuela Niños Adelante 260
Other volunteer areas 26 286
TOTALS Niños Adelante 345 339 684
Other volunteer areas 72 331 403
godmothers” project, which backs up the bank’s
Por los que se quedan (For those left behind)
scholarship programme.
IN LATIN
AMERICA
The volunteer work of BBVA
employees serves to
complement and multiply the
effect of the Niños adelante scholarship program,
which is explained in detail in the Community
Involvement chapter. The volunteer activities include
tutoring and school performance monitoring of the
students benefiting from the scholarships, as well as
support for school infrastructure improvement.
With these actions, BBVA employees
demonstrate their clear commitment to society,
manifested in improved educational opportunity
for underprivileged children, thus promoting their
integration into society.
IN THE UNITED
STATES
Throughout 2008, BBVA
Compass employees involved
with the TeamCompass
association carried out 552 volunteer activities in
nearby towns and cities.
13,882 BBVA Compass employees make
voluntary fixed contributions from their pay to
United Way. Employees also donated $21,000 to the
“Lean on Me Employee Fund”, a special fund set up
to help a those employees affected by Hurricane Ike
in and around Houston and other areas of Texas.
TOTALS 4,048 417 670 1,087
(1) Total volunteers during and outside of working hours.
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