Kimball takes a decentralized approach to its community projects, allowing the employees and management teams of each operating unit location to decide which events or causes provide the greatest benefit to their local community. However, philosophically the Company encourages support for those programs which improve the human condition, such as health, social services and education.

Kimball recognizes the importance of employee volunteer activity and encourages active participation. Employees are able to utilize the Company's flexible scheduling of personal vacation to allow time for volunteerism. In addition, managers have discretion to allow certain fundraising or donation collection activities to occur in the workplace.

Through the Company's internal newsletters and online intranet news, employee philanthropy and volunteer activity is recognized, successes shared and future actions encouraged.

Kimball Delivers the Goods - Feeding Families
Kimball Logistics employees and truck drivers participated in the "Feeding Families Food Drive" to collect shelf-stable and canned good items for distribution to regional food banks. The program was initiated and coordinated by Holiday World, a large amusement park in southern Indiana. Visitors to the park were asked to donate one or more food items for admission into the park. Kimball supplied semi trailers and panel trucks to store and deliver the 20,000 cans and boxes of collected food items to the Tri-State Food Bank which serves the needy in 33 counties.

National's Caring Culture - Cold Weather, Warm Hearts
When the worst winter ice storms in memory hit the NOF-Fordsville (Kentucky) area last January, the entire community and surrounding area was without power. Ice brought down trees, snapped electrical lines, caved in roods of homes and stores, and made life difficult. That left thousands of people without heat, lights or access to daily conveniences like banks, grocery stores or gas stations for four weeks. Announcing the news through the company, employees of National and Kimball jumped into action. The first wave of help arrived within a few days with emergency supply shipments of food, kerosene heaters, fuel containers, flashlights, and batteries, purchased by National on behalf of its employees. In the following days, cash and non-perishable donations poured in to the Kimball Logistics Center for a delivery to the Fordsville facility. Combined with the first wave of goods, Fordsville employees set up a food pantry in one of their conference rooms to provide their fellow employees and their families with the essentials to get through this challenging situation. Enough items were donated to operate the food pantry for three and a half weeks.

Blood Drives - Giving the Gift of Life
As a company committed to safety and wellness, Kimball is a strong supporter of the American Red Cross, frequently hosting community blood drives at our facilities. Employees typically are the organizers of these events, as well as donors. Over the past 18 months, more than 410 pints of blood have been collected from over 19 blood drives held at Kimball facilities.

Cleaning Mother Earth
To celebrate Earth Day, in May 2009, National Office Furniture (NOF) employees cleaned up litter around their facilities. Adopt-A-Street volunteers teamed up to pick up trash on the street near their office. At another location, 40 NOF employees gave up their lunch break to clean up the highway along the front of their plant's property.

Involvement by Employees - A Global Perspective

At Kimball locations around the globe, Kimball employees embrace our Company's corporate culture by supporting their local communities. We have built the working environments of our non-U.S. organizations in the same way as our U.S. locations, upon the foundation of our practices that come from our Vision and Guiding Principles. Through training, our employees of every location understand what is meant by our Guiding Principles, and they are able to embody those principles in their own practices, while following or complying with their own country-specific laws.

Mexico
In the Kimball Electronics facility located in Reynosa, Mexico, our employees have initiated a number of events over the years to collect holiday season gifts for underprivileged children, and to provide reusable lunch bags and plastic water bottles for underprivileged children going to school. When the hurricane hit the area of Chiapas, Kimball Mexico employees collected meals and clothes to donate to the victims. Keeping with the Kimball focus on safety, health and wellness, the Reynosa facility held a Health Fair that provided medical and dental attention, as well as blood pressure and diabetes testing.

Thailand
The employees of Kimball Electronics in Thailand have shown how they live the Company's guiding principle of citizenship by collecting money and other goods to help local area orphans and donating it to the monks of the Ayutthaya province temple, who will distribute it to benefit the poor. Employees have also collected and donated money to the temple at Saraburi province to help people infected with HIV. Kimball Thailand employees have also adopted an elementary school in Tak province, visiting to donate money and supplies that helps the underprivileged children who attend there.

China
Employees of Kimball Electronics China operation in Nanjing demonstrated their collective spirit by sponsoring fundraising activities to raise donations for victims of the disastrous earthquake in SiChuan Province, sending the collected monies to the Red Cross to assist response efforts.

On a lighter note, the Nanjing employees are not afraid to get their hands dirty when helping out, as they climbed ZiJin Mountain, a famous and popular tourist attraction, to pick up the trash left behind by over ten thousand tourists who visit the mountain every day.

KE-Tampa
Kimball Electronics-Tampa recently participated in a back-to-school supplies drive, called "Backpacks of Hope," for a local charity. Thanks to the efforts of employees, enough items were collected to fill up 16 fully stocked backpacks, with additional quantities of supplies to distribute to needy kids in the Tampa Bay area.

Corporate Angel Network
Kimball International is a member of the Corporate Angel Network (CAN), the only charitable organization in the U.S. whose sole mission is to ease the emotional stress, physical discomfort and financial burden of travel for cancer patients by arranging free flights to treatment centers, using the empty seats on corporate aircraft flying on routine business.

As a CAN member, Kimball International is able to coordinates schedules with its own business-related trips to utilize its corporate aircraft to transport a patient and his or her companion to a distant hospital or medical facility for treatment. Thus far, Kimball has made six such flights.

According to their website, CAN arranges free air transportation for cancer patients traveling to treatment using the empty seats on corporate jets. Thanks to the generosity of 530 of America's finest corporations, Corporate Angel Network has arranged more than 25,000 flights since 1981.