Company: ALGN
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001097149-25-000016
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Company: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: PRE 14A
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 Mercer China, Healthiest Workplace Award for Outstanding Women Care

• Newsweek, America’s Greatest Workplaces; Greatest Workplaces for Mental Wellbeing America

• U.S. News & World Report - Best Companies to Work For and Best Companies to Work For in the Health Care Industry

For further discussions of our diversity and inclusion initiatives as well as our many employee policies, benefits, achievements and awards please see “Human Capital” under Part I, Item 1 “Business” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 28, 2025.

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| Community |

Contributing to the communities in which we live and work by using our talents and resources

Contributing to our communities is important in our culture. Our overall philanthropic philosophy is to support organizations whose visions tie closely to our own - transforming smiles, supporting and educating youth/teens, and advancing technology through research and other partnerships with learning institutions and/or foundations. We also focus on the needs of our communities, employees, customers and their patients, and healthcare workers in general.

Launched in 2020, the Align Foundation provides a structured means by which significant donations are directed from a donor-advised fund overseen by Fidelity Charitable, with the flexibility to provide smaller monetary donations, processes to donate our products, as well as an organized way to involve our employees in giving activities. Below are some of our key community initiatives in 2024 :

• Since 2013 we have been a proud supporter of Operation Smile, a global medical nonprofit that has provided hundreds of thousands of free surgeries for people born with cleft lips and cleft palates in low and middle-income countries. For the fourth year, we sponsored Operation Smile’s International Student Leadership Conference, a powerful opportunity for youth in high schools and colleges around the world to develop leadership skills and impact their communities. As part of our 2024 sponsorship, we provided full scholarships for 74 participants including students born with a cleft condition. In addition, we covered a portion of the conference fee for all students to make this opportunity more accessible for all attendees. As of December 31, 2024, we had donated approximately $3.0 million to Operation Smile.

• As part of Align’s commitment to improving oral health, we partnered with the INCAE Business School as they relaunched, after the pandemic, the CAHI Jeffe Fellowship in Health and Innovation to improve health services in Latin America. The CAHI Jeffe Fellowship