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> The U.S.-Mexico Partnership for Prosperity seeks to recognize examples
> of good corporate citizenship that many U.S. and Mexican companies
> exhibit in their work in Mexico. Here we highlight some, though by no
> means all, of the examples of good corporate citizenship. We applaud
> all private sector efforts that contribute to making local communities
> better places.

**Corporate Citizenship** refers to the way in which companies integrate
social values with everyday business practices.

Many companies want to be a force for good but recent events have given
companies additional cause to look closely at the image they present in
their communities both at home and abroad. Studies show that
international community involvement which clearly communicates and makes
a positive social impact can head off potential misunderstandings of
companies' motives and goals.

"Corporate community involvement is an integral part of good business
practice," said Steve Rochlin, Director of Research and Development at
The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College. "It generates
better understanding of international markets while serving as an "early
warning" system, alerting firms to potentially important social trends."

More and more companies deal with communities, governments, customers,
investors, employees, and advocacy groups who expect them to be a
positive social force. A few of the benefits that companies gain when
they invest in making a positive social impact in their communities
include an enhanced reputation, better relationships with local
communities and governments, innovation of new products based upon an
understanding of local cultures, the ability to attract and retain
employees, increasing consumer brand preference, and the generation of
additional capital from socially responsible investment funds.

Evidence exists to suggest that:

● corporate social performance and corporate financial performance are
positively linked

● awareness of corporate community involvement can positively influence
different

stakeholders' perception of the company

● consumers support companies they believe are good corporate citizens

● corporate community involvement increases brand differentiation

● corporate community involvement can aid in the development of human
capital

There are many bottom line reasons for a company to create and maintain
a program for good corporate citizenship but beyond the bottom line, the
worth of a corporation is reflected in its impact on its community.
Giving back to the community makes it a better place to live and work
and in turn makes the community a better place to do business.

[(From The Center for Corporate Citizenship, Boston College website at
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# Aliquanta, S.C.

Aliquanta S.C. supports Mexican educational foundations such as
\"Programa Lazos\" of the Fundación Mexico Unido. Support is provided
through monthly contributions, which help fund scholarship programs to
further basic education for low-income families. The program aims to
increase school attendance, improve the quality of academic instruction
and instill values in young children.  The program provides assistance
to more than 100 schools in Mexico City and several other Mexican
states.  School attendance has increased significantly in the schools
that work with "Programa Lazos."   More than 100,000 students have
benefited from this program.

# Associated Merchandising Corporation

The Associated Merchandising Corporation started a program to support
the local orphanage in Tlaquepaque, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Office team members organize monthly games, arts and crafts and
activities with the 142 children of the orphanage. Employees collect
donations locally and from AMC team members worldwide to support their
efforts locally.

# AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca Mexico sponsors World Vision, an organization whose
objective is to focus on support for poor children. AstraZeneca works
with World Vision to help develop community programs that provide better
healthcare, education and quality of life for poor children. AstraZeneca
employees currently sponsor 59 children with World Vision.

# Banamex

Fomento Social Banamex supports community welfare projects in rural
areas, cultural job-providing projects, regional development projects
and donations. Banamex supported the construction, rehabilitation and
expansion of 19 drinking water systems in indigenous communities in the
Mexican state of Oaxaca. More than 20,000 Mexicans benefited from the
initiative. The bank also promoted the construction of homes in the
Mezquital Valley, a poor region inhabited by Otomi Indians. Banamex
created multilateral investment funds to foster projects which generate
jobs and create infrastructure in rural Mexico. Banamex also funded the
construction of cultural centers including the Cultural Center of Santo
Domingo, development of the Ethnobotanical Historic Garden and the
renovation of the \"Francisco de Burgoa\" Library.

# Bristol-Myers Squibb

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation works with the Hospital Infantil in
Mexico City and the General Hospital in Tijuana. Partnerships in Mexico
support innovative programs to treat children with AIDS and help prevent
the spread of the disease. "Una Mano a los mas Pequenos" is a Mexican
pediatric HIV/AIDS education and drug access program supported by the
foundation. With training assistance from Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, Texas, local medical facilities are being established or
improved to better diagnose and treat the spread of the disease.
Life-saving medicine is given free to HIV-infected children.
Bristol-Meyers spent \$5 million from 1998 to 2001 on these programs.
The company is spending \$70,000 this year on an on-going physician
education program.

# Cemex

Cemex is very involved in international environmental conservation
efforts. The company has produced several major publications focusing on
the natural and cultural wealth of the world. Donations of these books
support the work of conservation groups throughout the world. Since
1995, Cemex has managed Mexico\'s Santa Maria Field, a wildlife
conservation, research and species recovery area in which original
wildlife species, such as white-tailed deer, mule deer, and wild turkey,
are reintroduced. Through this initiative, the company is helping to
assure the permanent presence of these natural species in northeastern
Nuevo Leon. Cemex also bought two tracks of land in the El Carmen
mountains of Northern Mexico, creating an 800-square-mile preserve in
one of the most unique and diverse ecosystems in North America.

# Coca Cola

The Coca Cola Foundation has built 20 schools in rural and indigenous
areas in the past three years. The School Shelter Program aims to create
and improve school shelters for indigenous children where they are
educated and housed. Twenty shelters have already been built and in 2003
Coca Cola plans to build five additional schools and 20 more school
shelters.

# Comex

Grupo Comex supports low-income housing construction. Comex offers
scholarships and loans for Mexican students living in poverty in order
to help them complete high school and college education. The company
also works to increase Mexican workforce productivity through employment
training and micro enterprise development programs.

# ConocoPhillips 

ConocoPhillips has supported several community projects in Rosarito,
Baja California, including providing three four-wheel drive vehicles
valued at \$60,000 for the Rosarito Fire Department, Christmas dinner
packages for families otherwise unlikely to have enjoyed a holiday meal
and \$1,500 in April 2002 for "Día del Niño" festivities for children.
ConocoPhillips has donated 200 blankets to families of Rosarito during
the holidays and \$1,000 for toys for the "Día de las Reyes" festivities
in 2001.

"The growth of a company depends not only on its business and
technological success, but also on its effectiveness as a conscientious
corporate citizen." ConocoPhillips

# Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines provides the "We Care Trust Fund" which offers
financial assistance to airline employees and their families in need of
special assistance. Continental's Scholarship Fund supports the
development of employees and their families. Funds are supplied by
employee contributions and employee-sponsored fundraising efforts.

# DaimlerChrysler

The Daimler Chrysler Mexico Foundation was started in 1987 and works
with \$2 million annually. The Foundation actively participates in
donations to hospitals that lack resources. The Foundation has provided
the Saltillo Children's Hospital with building funds, acquisitions of
medical equipment, maintenance and the supply of medicines. Partially
due to this support, this hospital was the first hospital in Latin
America to gain ISO-9000 certification. Daimler Chrysler also supports
the Atizapan General Hospital and the Balbuena General Hospital. Annual
contributions are also made to the Mexican Red Cross in Coahuila, Mexico
State and Mexico City. Medical and social assistance is provided to the
Guerrero Hospital Guadalupano. Some 1,780 low-income students in
Morelos, Coahuila, Mexico State and Mexico City have received
scholarships. Schools in Saltillo, Mexico State, Mexico City and
Derramadero have been built or improved. The Foundation also supports
the Coahuila State Government's United for Nutrition program which
supplies milk at a preferential price to 25,000 infants and school-age
children living in poverty. The Foundation also offers support to other
vulnerable population groups, help for cultural and ecological programs
and support for public security.

# Duke Energy

Duke Energy supports Fundación Nitrógeno de Cantarell (FUNICA), a
registered Mexican non-profit organization dedicated to improving the
lives of people on the Atasta Peninsula in Campeche. FUNICA works with
the Cantarell Community Program, a self-help community development
program that began in 1998 with an initial funding commitment of
\$500,000. The Cantarell Community Program supports community
initiatives that strengthen local capacity for planning and management,
provide training in skills that increase economic opportunity and
economic development. The Program is based in community involvement and
participation. Activities include recycling and environmental education
programs in seven schools and potable drinking water initiatives in six
schools.

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# DuPont 

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DuPont Mexico established a recycling program within the company in 1995
and used the proceeds to establish ecological and health programs in
local communities. Using financial contributions and the active
volunteer participation of employees, the company recycling program has
recycled 3.2 tons of aluminum and 216 tons of paper. The money earned
through the sale of office waste materials was used to establish a
program within the community of San Vicente Chicoloapan. DuPont also
supports a rehabilitation center for disabled people in the Altamira
(Tamaulipas) community.

# Eli Lilly and Company

Lilly has invested \$1 million since 1998 educating health care
providers and the public about diabetes. The education courses have
reached more than 6,000 patients. Lilly sponsors camps for diabetic
children and invites 500 children a year to learn more about their
disease and have fun at the same time. Over the past two years, Lilly
has reached 20,000 diabetes care physicians and educated them about
insulin therapy application and disease information. Lilly Mexico holds
special educational briefings and programs in which key specialists can
present important data about specific diseases. Lilly also publishes
more than 130 articles a year reaching 7 million Mexicans. "Linea Lilly"
is a customer service call center provided to the public which receives
4,000 calls a year.

# Emerson

Emerson supports training for children and adults in underdeveloped
suburbs with donations of equipment, furniture and clean-up activities.
Emerson twice a year supports the Red Cross campaign and local fire
departments. Health programs are supported with donations of medicine
and health materials to small clinics. Emerson plant doctors and nurses
help with health and first aid training. Health programs are aimed at
children and parents to prevent drug addiction and help rehabilitation.
Emerson employees support local orphanages by organizing games, food
distribution and health training. Donations are made to orphanages,
homes for the elderly, CARITAS, the Red Cross and local food banks.

# Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company's schools construction program has built 198
elementary schools serving 150,000 students since 1966. The schools have
been donated to the Mexican national education system. More than 1.5
million children have received their elementary education in a Ford
School. Ford's \"Quality Education Program\" supports training for
principals and teachers, a sports tournament, a school for parents and
74 media rooms that benefit 20,000 children. In cooperation with
Mexico's Environment Secretariat, Ford has supported since 1997 the
Vizcaino Biosphere Reservation in Baja California. Ford supports the
Lacandona Rain Forest by building and equipping five field stations for
the implementation of ecological education, surveillance, and
sustainable development research. Ford has a policy of encouraging its
dealers to contribute to local community projects.

"Each day represents a new opportunity to help Mexican society." Ford of
Mexico

# General Electric

GE's employees in Mexico support several community development
organizations through the GE Elfun Volunteers organization and by grants
from the GE Fund. GE Elfun Volunteers are active in Querétaro,
Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, Ciudad Juárez, Tampico, Mexico City and
Monterrey. More than 30 schools, orphanages, pediatric hospitals, day
care centers, and homes for disadvantaged youth or the elderly receive
periodic visits from GE employees. These volunteers help improve
facilities, mentor children or organize holiday celebrations. Under the
Pen Pals programs, GE Volunteers correspond with and mentor more than
300 public school children. The GE Fund focuses on improving access to
education for less privileged students. More than 360 students have been
supported by college scholarship programs since 1987. In the future, the
GE Fund will support a joint effort with the University of Monterrey in
which GE volunteers and GE Fund scholarship recipients will work with
underprivileged middle and high schools students to better prepare them
for college.

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# GMAC Finance

GMAC Finance gives at least one percent of its net income back to
communities each year through its Community Involvement Program. The
program provides sponsorships and grants for education, housing and
human services. GMAC financially matches the personal contributions and
volunteer hours of its employees. GMAC raises funds during the year to
donate back to the community.

"The strength of the communities in which we live and work contributes
to our success as a company." GMAC Finance

# HEB Supermarkets

The HEB Supermarket chain donates five percent of its earnings to local
community development programs including in-kind donations to six food
banks and cash donations to be used as seed money to supply equipment
for new food banks. With the "Adopt A School" Program, each store
assists a public school with contributions for repairs or educational
equipment. Store staff participate with parents and teachers in
activities at the school throughout the school year. HEB has provided
scholarships for the past four years to low-income students at Monterrey
Tech with excellent grades. HEB provides charitable donations to
orphanages, hospitals, domestic violence shelters, drug abuse recovery
programs, special education schools and community cafeterias. The
company also promotes folk festivals and programs in local museums to
people that would not normally have access to cultural events. HEB
actively participates in Cultural Boards to promote the arts for the
masses.

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# Helguera y Asociados S.A. de C.V. 

Helguera y Asociados S.A. de C.V. supports a drug and alcohol
rehabilitation organization named Comisión De Texcoco Contra Las
Adicciones run by a Catholic priest. The program has three houses
supporting as many as 300 men, women and children in a three-month
rehabilitation program. The program serves the children of addicts,
providing them with housing, food, clothing and schooling. Some 5,500
people have been helped by the organization in the past five years.
Helguera y Asociados organizes cultural events to raise money for the
program. The company also collects clothes, food, exercise equipment,
TVs, radios and washing machines for the organization.

# Intel

Intel's "Teach to the Future" program has trained more than 40,000
teachers in Mexico. The program helps teachers integrate technology into
instruction. Two Intel Computer Clubhouses in Mexico City's Postal
Palace and at Guadalajara's Planetarium have been opened for youths to
acquire skills necessary for professional success. Intel has sponsored
Mexican high school students at the Intel International Science and
Engineering Fair. Intel donated the first digital design laboratory in
Mexico to the Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiors de
Occidente. Intel also supplied equipment to rural communities at the
Sierra Madre in Jalisco and the Tarahumara Sierra in Chihuahua. Intel
employees also adopted a two-acre plot at the Primavera Forest in
Guadalajara where they have planted, replaced and fertilized nearly
1,000 trees.

# ItalMexicana

ItalMexicana has supported Adobe Home Aid since 1999 to provide housing
to the poorest families in Mexico and Latin America through a
self-construction housing system with community organization. The group
works in rural areas to organize communities to produce their own
building material. Some 14,000 families in Chiapas were helped to build
their own homes after they were left homeless in a 1997 natural
disaster. ItalMexicana organized the families in the community, provided
building skills and training to operate construction equipment and
produce construction material.

# Médica Sur

Médica Sur is a hospital complex that includes medical attention units;
research; teaching; clinical laboratory; imaging services;
pharmacological and biotechnological research center; planning and
health system innovation center; medical websites for doctors and their
patients; and community services. Community services are provided
through Médica Sur Foundation, a non-profit, social assistance
enterprise. During 2002, the Foundation received 3,038 visits by
patients from the Centro de Bienestar Social free clinic in the Pueblo
Quieto neighborhood. Also, the Foundation organized 57 surgical
procedures to correct sight problems and malformation of the spine
(scoliosis).

# Merck Sharp & Dohme

Merck Sharp and Dohme's Mectizan Program has provided more than 6
million tablets to treat river blindness (onchocercosis) in the Mexican
states of Oaxaca and Chiapas. Merck has donated \$80,000 to support
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs of CONASIDA, FUNSALUD and
Mexico's Human Rights Commission. Merck also has provided \$78,000 to
the Institutuo Nacional de Medicina Genomica for basic research. Merck
donated \$65,000 worth of antibiotics to areas affected by Hurricane
Isadore in the Mexican states of Yucatan and Campeche. Merck donated
\$16,000 in medicines to MUSTARGEN, ELPSAR Casa de la Amistad, Luz de
Vida Organization and the Mexican the Mexican Association of Aid to
Children with Cancer. Merck provided \$10,000 in 2002 to support the
Mexican Controller's Secretariat sponsorship of a symposium on
anti-corruption and ethical practices in the public and private sector.
Merck has provided \$8,000 since 2001 to support an environmental
project to build a compost production facility in Xochimilco.

# Microsoft

Microsoft Mexico supports the "Internet en mi Biblioteca" program to
provide desktop computers and establish Internet access in public
libraries throughout rural Mexico. Microsoft provides more than 50
libraries with Internet and computer access within Mexico. Microsoft
donated \$30,000 in computer equipment to the "Fundación Pro Niños"
which helps more than 300 homeless children in Mexico City each year.
The new computer system will aid in the organization of the foundation
and education of the children. Microsoft also supports the Mexican
Government's E-Mexico system to develop computer infrastructure
nationwide.

# Office Depot

Office Depot has supported Teleton charity efforts for the past six
years to help disabled children by supplying computer rooms and office
supplies. Office Depot also supports the Foundation of Mazahua by
selling cards with an explanation of the community work and by
collecting for the charity at stores. The company also has supported the
Hospital Infantil Federico Gomez for the past six years. Office Depot
donates 32 computers to the best children in every state selected in a
nationwide contest. The company also supports small charities and
community work by helping provide office supplies and organizing
sporting events.

# Opentec 

Opentec is a Mexican computer services company that has contributed
computers to rural communities and to organizations with limited
resources. The company has donated computers for rural schools
(Telesecundarias) in Guerrero and in Oaxaca as well as over 150
computers to the: Cruz Roja Mexicana, Hogar Nuestra Buena Madre AC,
Voluntarias Vicentinas, Consejo Cultural Mundial AC, Ministerios de Amor
AC, and Proeducacion IAP.

# Pfizer 

The Pfizer Foundation\'s Global Community Matching Fund supports local
charitable projects throughout the world to benefit the communities
where Pfizer employees live and work. Pfizer's Vision Mundial program
helped support construction of 20 medical clinics in Mexico and Central
America which serve 120 communities and benefit nearly 215,000 people.
Pfizer Foundation donated \$1 million to 43 different programs through
Mexico in 2002. These donations supported projects and organizations as
diverse as the Red Cross, community empowerment rural assessment
meetings, donations of medical equipment and supplies, construction of
health clinics, support of organizations doing health research, and
mobile clinics. Pfizer also participates in a Christmas toy giving
program for disadvantaged children.

"Social awareness must translate into committed actions and results."
Pfizer

# PPG Industries de Mexico

PPG Industries supports the "Wings of Wonder" program to create a
butterfly habitat and use unoccupied industrial land behind a PPG plant
in San Juan del Rio in the Mexican state of Queretaro. This educational
program was launched in 2002 with \$3,000. It aims to instruct
elementary students to think as scientists. Approximately 100 children
and 20 teachers in the U.S. and Mexico have participated in the project.
PPG set aside the land and purchased more than 400 plants and flowers
chosen to attract butterflies. Students and teachers participated in
planting the plants and more than 10,000 seeds. The program operates
with a program developed at another PPG Industries plant in Monroeville,
Pennsylvania, with the Wildlife Habitat Council.

"At the end of the project, both American and Mexican teachers found
that in the endeavor to educate children there are no cultural borders."
PPG Industries

# Stanelyworks Puebla

Stanelyworks Puebla obtained PROFEPA "clean industry certification" in
2002. The company committed to plant 30 hectares in trees to combat
deforestation in Puebla. The company supports two orphanages (one for
boys and the other for girls). Stanelyworks Puebla also supported the
Isidore Hurricane relief campaign. Stanelyworks Puebla sensitizes its
workers to health, safety, and environmental issues through family
health weekends which provide family health reviews and inoculations in
a family friendly venue as well as first aid training.

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# Toptel S de RL de CV

Toptel promotes community development by providing employment
opportunities to handicapped individuals and maintaining a supportive
work environment for employees with special needs. Toptel\'s E-CONTACT
call center features the physical infrastructure that handicapped
individuals need to perform their jobs.

# Toyota

Toyota Motor Manufacturing of North America is working with the Mexico's
Education Secretariat to establish 20 Technical Automotive Institutes
(ITATs) in high schools in Mexico over the next three years. Through
these one-year programs, Toyota educates young Mexicans in automotive
functions and services and offers on-the-job experience. The program
seeks to develop technicians with well-developed math, electronics,
communication and problem solving skills and good mechanics. Graduates
are qualified to work in Toyota facilities, other automotive companies,
independent businesses, or to start their own businesses. Toyota
Institutes operate in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Azcapotzalco and
Monterrey with two programs soon to open in Merida and Guadalajara.
There are 160 students currently enrolled and when all 20 programs are
established, about 800 students will be participating. In addition,
Toyota has donated 1 million pesos to the Tijuana/Tecate Linkage
Committees. The donation will supply computers, software, and other
equipment to schools and libraries in Tijuana and Tecate used by over
250,000 students and residents. After last year's earthquake in Colima,
Toyota donated \$250,000 to the local Red Cross to support search and
rescue operations.

# Transcontainer

Transcontainer supports Hacienda San José de la Palma, a foundation that
helps men and women struggling with drug and alcohol abuse. Over the
past four years Transcontainer has provided financial support and
encouraged others to assist the foundation in its important work.

"We cannot change the past, but we can do something to create a better
world. If we save just one life, it is worth it." Transcontainer

# U.S.-Mexican Development Corporation 

U.S.-Mexico Development Corporation (USMDC) actively works with
Ministerios de Amor, founded in 1988, which has 14 homes in eight cities
in Mexico giving love, food, schooling and shelter to over 550 homeless
Mexican children. USMDC is assisting Ministerios de Amor in the purchase
of a campus that will provide additional housing for the growing numbers
of homeless children. With the acquisition of this campus Ministerios de
Amor hopes that it will be able to insure that siblings will no longer
be split up due to lack of housing.

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# United Airlines 

United Airlines selects university students each year for a "Take Your
Community to Work Day" to give them a one-day in-house experience in the
operation of an airline. Each year United brings a group of low-income
children from Costa Rica to spend the day in Mexico. United sponsors the
annual American Charity Golf and Tennis Classic. Proceeds support the
Fondo Unido and needy children in Mexico. United provides approximately
20 airline tickets each year for Fulbright Scholars traveling between
the U.S. and Mexico. Last year United employees delivered 500 toys to
two local orphanages.

# White & Case 

White & Case lawyers last year donated almost 3,000 hours of pro bono
work with organizations as diverse as women's micro-lending,
environmental, and low-income housing groups. White & Case has advised
non-profit organizations on creative financing and fundraising
techniques, provided tax counseling on issues such as non-profit status,
worked on organizational governance issues, and helped philanthropic
organizations tap foreign donor sources. White & Case has taught courses
on non-profit management which have reached large and small non-profit
organizations throughout Mexico and Latin America. The company also
provides counseling to non-profit organizations on dispute resolution
including the mediation of community disputes and the development of a
code of ethics for mediators.

"Pro bono work is a social duty and a strategic investment in our
country." White & Case

# Western Union

Western Union, through its foundation, has granted more than \$1.5
million since 2001 to assist Mexican migrants in the U.S. and
communities in Mexico. Through partnerships with organizations such as
Mexico's National University (UNAM), Western Union enabled Mexican
students to receive scholarships to attend schools in the U.S. Mexicans
students also were given the opportunity to complete their high school
diploma while in the U.S. Western Union also has supported efforts in
Mexico including the building of homes through Habitat for Humanity,
providing nutrition to children and women through World Vision,
supporting homeless shelters and orphanages for abandoned children and
funding organizations that provide rehabilitation services for disabled
children.

# Wyeth Mexico

Wyeth Mexico has contributed approximately \$3 million to the "Luchemos
contra el neumococo" program (fight against Pneumococcus). Pneumococcus
produces meningitis, pneumonia and otitis, and is the main cause of
infant death. The program has assisted about 12,000 poor children in
Mexico City and in the states of Mexico. Wyeth is also one of the
founding members of the initiative "Unidos por México" created to
provide relief to communities affected by natural disasters. In
September 2002, after the Hurricane Isidore, 21,000 families in the
state of Yucatan received assistance. Wyeth Mexico donated medication
worth \$1.1 million.

May 2003