Money

We aim to be global social investors, committing money, time and resources to the communities where we do business. When it comes to making grants, we work closely with our community partners to forge a strategy that will add real value to programs and services and inspire our partners, employees and the community.

We continue to invest in a range of projects in the places where Gap Inc. does business, from a neighborhood in New York City to a village in Southeast Asia. In the past five years, we have distributed about $60 million in grants worldwide to such programs as:

•	Harlem Children's Zone's Employment and Technology Center, a youth program focused on education and employment;
•	Sri Lankan community groups dedicated to helping women rebuild lost businesses after the tsunami;
•	The United Negro College Fund, INROADS, the National Association for Asian Professionals and other efforts promoting diversity;
•	ALAFA (Apparel Lesotho Alliance to Fight AIDS);
•	Funding to support the pilot of an industry wide health intervention model focused on awareness, prevention, testing and treatment for garment workers in Lesotho.

As we move forward, our strategy is to create an even deeper social impact by focusing on fewer grantees and emphasizing grants aligned with our target causes. In 2007, more than 65 percent of our grants will be to programs in these areas.

We make significant contributions through strategic partnerships with select community organizations in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and headquarters locations in Canada and the U.K. In the developing world, achieving a long-term, meaningful impact by supporting organizations in our vendor communities. Additionally, through employee committees located in our remote corporate and Distribution Center locations, we are able to extend our support to organizations in those communities.

Gap Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals for grants and event sponsorships. We identify organizations and programs that embrace our youth development and women's advancement principles. Our strategy is to seek out and build strong partnerships with a limited number of national, regional and local community-based nonpolitical, nonreligious and nonprofit organizations.

Working with Gifts In Kind International, Gap Inc. makes substantial in-kind donations each year on behalf of Gap Inc. In 2006, we made more than $4.7 million of in-kind donations — from merchandise samples and fabric to furniture and fixtures — to nonprofit organizations. Recipients ranged from national organizations like the YMCA to local nonprofits such as The Door, in New York City, which received new clothes for teens to wear on job interviews.

Gap Inc. supports our employees' personal giving by matching, dollar-for-dollar, donations to qualifying charitable organizations. In late 2006, we launched Gap Inc. Global Giving, providing all our employees worldwide with the opportunity to have Gap Inc. match their contributions.