Our employees donate money and volunteer their time to support their local communities. We have a number of programs in the U.S. to reward their efforts and generosity. These include our Matching Gifts program, through which employees donated $1.2 million to U.S. non-profit organizations in 2007. We matched these donations dollar for dollar. Our Community Partners program provides $500 grants to non-profit organizations where employees and their spouses or domestic partners volunteer more than 30 hours per year. In 2007, we donated nearly $1 million and our employees volunteered more than 98,000 hours of their time through this program.

In the U.S., employees can also participate in payroll giving, a voluntary program where donations to the United Way are deducted directly from participating employees’ salary each pay period. We have committed to matching employee gifts to United Way dollar for dollar.

Many of our executives also contribute to the community by serving on the boards of community and charitable organizations, for example:

• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tom Falk serves on the boards of the University of Wisconsin Foundation and the Boys & Girls Club of America
• Group President, Developing and Emerging Markets, Bob Black volunteers at the Park Cities Family YMCA in Dallas, Texas
• Group President, North Atlantic Consumer Products, Robert Abernathy serves on the Emory University Goizueta Business School Advisory Board in Georgia and the University of Alabama Arts and Sciences Advisory Board. He also serves on the boards of the North Fulton United Way in Georgia and Texas Health Resources
• Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Liz Gottung serves on the boards of the North Fulton Child Development Association in Georgia and the American Heart Association based in Dallas, Texas
• President of Kimberly-Clark Health Care, Joanne Bauer, serves on the board of MedShare International.

China
Since 2003, K-C China has donated much-needed diapers and tissues worth more than $16,500 to the New Day Foster Home, an orphanage for handicapped children from all over China. Every year, K-C organizes employees to visit the children, and allows them time off to arrange field trips for the children. Our donations and support also make surgeries possible for the children.

New Zealand
K-C New Zealand introduced a new scheme where employees are entitled to one paid day of leave per year to volunteer with the charity or community organization of their choice.

Mexico
Post-consumer waste collected by employees at our Avent Nogales mill in Mexico is being used to produce Papercrete, a mix of waste paper and cement used to build affordable, low-impact housing with good insulation. Many local businesses have taken part in the project, with K-C employees participating.