Collectively, the Macy's Foundation, the company and its divisions (and the May Foundation in 2006) contributed more than $36 million in 2006. Gifts were directed in large part to our core giving areas of arts and culture, education, HIV/AIDS awareness and research, minority issues and women's issues.

An additional $38 million was donated by our associates and our customers last year during our United Way campaigns and through the "give back"opportunities in our stores such as charity shopping days, Shop For A Cause, and Thanks For Sharing.

Macy's, Inc. Corporate and Foundation Contributions in 2006 Included:

• Support for the capital campaign of the University of Miami/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to expand the diagnostic imaging facilities in the university's gynecological/oncology center.
• Funding for the New York City Partnership Foundation, Inc. (The Fund for Public Schools) program to train great principals for New York City's most challenging public schools. The project has provided training and mentoring for more than half of the city's 1,400 school principals, producing a new generation of school leaders who are committed to achieving the reform objectives championed by the Mayor of New York.
• Gifts to the American Red Cross to help with disaster relief in Nashville as the result of tornado damage in spring 2006.
• A grant to the Fox Cities Sick Child Care Program, which is part of Child Care Resource & Referral, Inc., a Wisconsin-based agency that provides child care for single parents when children become ill and the parent must be at work.
• Support for the California Pacific Medical Center Foundation, which provides integrated health and healing services for people with cancer, heart disease and HIV/AIDS who are underserved by the medical community. The Center works to reduce pain, improve the ability to handle stress and anxiety, and deal with the emotional, physical and spiritual challenge of illness. Services are provided by medical doctors and other practitioners such as acupuncturists, yoga therapists, nutritionists and a chi kung master.
• A grant to the Shepherd Wellness Community, located in western Pennsylvania, to help provide dinners to those affected by HIV/AIDS. This Wellness Community chapter serves more than 6,000 meals each year to residents of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and 11 surrounding counties. In addition, our grant helped create three support groups recently: a group for those who are HIV-positive, a group for persons affected by HIV, and a support group for HIV-positive heterosexuals.
• A gift to the New Jersey State Police Survivors of the Triangle, which provides resources to assist in rebuilding the lives of surviving families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
• A grant to The Children's Diabetes Foundation in Denver, which funds many of the programs at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes. The clinical team provides care for more than 5,000 patients – including 3,400 children – making it one of the largest diabetes centers in the world. The Center provides comprehensive clinical care delivered by a team of 15 doctors, 11 diabetes nurse educators, four dieticians and two social workers, and has an on-site eye clinic. Care extends after hours to unlimited phone/fax/email consulting between visits and a 24/7 physician advice hot line.
• Support for the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis to help empower African Americans and others throughout the region to secure economic self-reliance and civil rights.
• Funding through Our Daily Bread for the Ohio "Employment Stabilization Program" to help the unemployed understand basic job expectations and maintain a job that promotes a future of self-dependence. The program was based on a growing group of "helpers" who were from the surrounding neighborhoods of Over The Rhine in Cincinnati who worked in a food kitchen, learned to interact with others, and worked to grow beyond the kitchen job. This fostered pride and a determination to improve and move on.