COMMUNITY

One of the best ways to enhance the enjoyment of life is to pursue passions and interests.  Education makes this pursuit possible.  Anheuser-Busch values the impact education has on individual lives and the community as a whole through support to organizations. Our goal is to support programs and organizations that provide access to and successful completion of higher education degrees.

We are proud to work with these partners:

Hispanic Scholarship Fund: During his 2010 and 2011 concert tour, Mexican singing legend Vicente “El Rey” Fernández, along with Budweiser, brought together two of his passions—music and education—to help raise funds for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF). As part of Budweiser’s longtime commitment to the Hispanic community, El Rey and the King of Beers donated a scholarship to a local college student for each of the performances on his tour. Anheuser-Busch provided $200,000 for this special partnership program. In total, Anheuser-Busch provided the HSF with closer to $1 million in support in the last two years, including donating $500 to the HSF for each goal scored during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa. Since 1982, Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser and our wholesalers have donated more than $24 million to HSF, the nation’s leading non-profit organization that supports Hispanic higher education.

The Anheuser-Busch Foundation also matches employee contributions to educational institutions and funds through the Matching Gift Program, which matches up to $5,000 a year for each individual donor. Through the Matching Gift Program, Anheuser-Busch and our employees have provided nearly $13 million to support education over the last five years.

UNCF: To live up to the ideal expressed in UNCF’s universally-recognized motto, ”A mind is a terrible thing to waste,”® UNCF helps students go to and through college by awarding 10,000 students each year through 400 scholarship and internship programs so that students from low- and moderate-income families can afford college tuition, books and room and board.  Partners for more than 35 years, Anheuser-Busch and its Foundation have given millions of dollars to support the mission on the UNCF. Including our founding sponsorship of the UNCF An Evening of Stars® in 1974.

Teach For America: The Anheuser-Busch Foundation donated $150,000 to the Teach For America Corps–St. Louis, which Anheuser-Busch has supported since the program first came to St. Louis. Anheuser-Busch executives, including North America Zone president Luiz Edmond, were also guest teachers at St. Louis public schools, visiting the classrooms of Teach For America teachers to impart lessons that draw on their experience in business and beyond.

Strengthening a community requires hard work and Anheuser-Busch values organizations willing to put equity into building structures and programs that enhance others’ enjoyment and quality of life.

Examples of recent efforts in this area include:

Urban League: Anheuser-Busch supports the work of the National Urban League as well as local Urban Leagues across the country. Through decades of grant and sponsorship support to the Urban League, Anheuser-Busch dedicated to economic empowerment that elevates the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities.

Habitat For Humanity: More than 100 Anheuser-Busch employees and their families spent Saturdays throughout the summer building a home with a deserving St. Louis family. The Anheuser-Busch Foundation donated $50,000 to help fund the project. Additionally, more than 250 Anheuser-Busch employees and wholesalers partnered with New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to help clean up neighborhoods and build homes during our annual sales convention. A donation of $50,000 also helped support the effort.

Employees at Anheuser-Busch’s breweries always have been actively involved in lending a helping hand to their neighbors. The following are some examples of initiatives undertaken by employees and their families in the communities where they live and work.

United Way: Each year, Anheuser-Busch Corporate Headquarters and each of its brewery cities raise money to benefit their local United Way. In 2011 alone, Anheuser-Busch employees gave more than $3.5 million to more than 23 United Ways across the country.

The Anheuser-Busch Foundation donated $65,000, and Jacksonville brewery workers spent five Saturdays as volunteer homebuilders for a local family through HabiJax, the local chapter of Habitat For Humanity. Since 1999, Anheuser-Busch has contributed a total of nearly $600,000 to HabiJax. HabiJax builds and renovates affordable houses in the Jacksonville urban core, concentrating on neighborhoods targeted for revitalization.

Anheuser-Busch’s Fairfield brewery hosted its first Bud Classic Car Show to benefit Families Helping Families, an organization founded by Anheuser-Busch brewery employees that has raised more than $250,000 for worthy causes in Solano County.

Houston brewery workers also sponsored a highly successful car show in their effort to raise money for the United Way.

For the 10th consecutive year, Cartersville brewery employees sponsored a charity bike ride to give back to the community and raise money for local charities, including Hickory Log Vocation School and Cancer Navigators. The event drew more than 1,400 riders.

For the 17th consecutive year, Anheuser-Busch’s Williamsburg brewery lent support for the “Green Team” program, a program administered by the Williamsburg–James City County Community Action Agency, in which teenagers are given summer employment to help needy residents make home repairs. The WJCC-CAA is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce the causes and conditions of poverty in the area.

Anheuser-Busch’s Merrimack Brewery hosted the 37th Annual Show N’ Shine Car Show to benefit Make-A-Wish^® Foundation in New Hampshire. Employees there, along with the Anheuser-Busch Foundation, contributed more than $140,000 to United Way of Greater Nashua.

The Baldwinsville Brewery employees are proud that their chili has been voted No. 1 at the annual United Way Cook-Off for the last seven years. Our United Way contribution per employee has increased each year for the last nine years, and the total contribution was more than $115,000.