Local Community Support

Ingersoll Rand donates to community organizations and promotes employee volunteerism. The community contributions our employees make reflect our company’s vision, values, and culture. Highlighted below are examples of Ingersoll Rand employees helping their communities during 2008.

United Way

Our employees are the driving force behind our strong community support programs. The United Way is one of two core agencies endorsed and supported by the Ingersoll Rand Foundation, as part of the company's commitment to philanthropy. The Davidson Campus showed exceptional growth in their involvement with the United Way in 2008, thanks to efforts including a cross sector team to increase awareness across the campus. Historically, the Davidson Campus’s involvement has grown steadily each year. However, there was a desire to substantially increase awareness and participation. A cross-sector team was formed to accomplish this objective, broadening overall participation and financial results. The team launched several new special events, including a golf tournament that raised $23,000. A total of $118,500 (pre-company match) was collected in 2008, $27,000 more than what was raised in 2007. Overall, the results were well above the 10 percent increase financial objective the team set.

Bridgeton Employees Keep Giving and Giving

In Bridgeton, Missouri, the facility’s annual United Way campaign resulted in nearly $293,000 collected for the United Way of Greater St. Louis. The Hussmann Retail Americas Management Team served spaghetti lunches for employees, with proceeds benefiting the St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf. Monetary donations are not the only way our employees contribute to those in need. Employees donated toys for more than 50 families through the facility’s toy drive. During the holidays, eight families in need received toys, clothes, personal care items, gift cards, and bus passes. A food drive provided Thanksgiving dinner to 100 families in the St. Louis area.

Ingersoll Rand Chile Helps Local Community, from Children to Senior Citizens

Twice each year, a team of volunteers from Ingersoll Rand Chile collects food, blankets, appliances, and other items donated by friends and family members. The items are then given to senior citizens during visits to the community center in Santiago.

The facility participates in two programs to help foundations that assist children and prevent child abuse:

• Paper recycling: the Ingersoll Rand office collects used paper that is then donated to a foundation called "San José para la adopción," which helps orphaned children find foster families. The foundation sells the paper to recycling companies and the proceeds help supply 90 diapers per month for orphaned babies.
• Toner cartridge recycling: empty toner cartridges are collected on site and given to "Fundación Maria Ayuda," an organization that works to prevent child abuse. The empty cartridges are sold by the foundation and the proceeds used to fund their programs.

Helping the Elementary School Next Door

Every Monday night for the past two years, a group of Von Duprin employees has been playing basketball at a nearby Indianapolis, Indiana, public elementary school. Once the employees started playing basketball there, they identified ways they could help the school. The first order of business was to fix all 30 of the school's exterior doors. Security Technologies agreed to donate $35,000 worth of materials and $15,000 for engineering and labor. The employees followed up with school uniform and supplies drives benefiting students at the school. In addition, 30 Von Duprin employees spent a Saturday building a storage barn, landscaping, and creating an outdoor classroom around the school's pond. They donated 200 person-hours and $3,000 in supplies. The volunteers hope this will become a long-term partnership between Ingersoll Rand and the school.

Sponsoring an Amusement Park Visit for Orphans

The "Fondo Unido" (the United Way in Mexico and Latin America) Committee at the Hussmann facility in Monterrey, Mexico, recently organized a visit to an amusement park for children from the local orphanage Casa Hogar de Enfermeras A.C. Hussmann volunteers served hamburgers, refreshments, and candy bags to the children, followed by contests with prizes and entertainment by "Hilito" the clown. The trip was a success thanks to the participation of all Monterrey plant employees. Money raised from recycling aluminum cans at the facility is used to fund charity work and activities that benefit the community, such as the amusement park trip.

Indiana National Guard Care Packages

Employees at the Security Technologies facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, collected care packages for Indiana National Guard troops stationed in Iraq. This is the second year that the plant has conducted a care package drive for the troops. Ninety-one boxes containing more than 2,000 items were collected from employee donations, double the results of the 2007 drive. Employees collected items such as toiletries (shampoo, soap, and hand wipes) and snacks (microwave popcorn, granola bars, and cookies).