Community & Civic Engagement
Objectives
Enhance the communities where employees live and work
Support worthy philanthropic causes important to our employees and communities
Lending a helping hand
Tough times call for quick action. So when Reynolds American and R.J.
Reynolds heard that their local food bank’s cupboard was
almost bare, the companies and their employees jumped in to help fill it.
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Quick work at ASC helps a neighbor
Employees of RAI’s subsidiary in Memphis, American Snuff Company, jumped in to help their fellow-citizens when the Mississippi River flooded.
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New role for R&D equipment
Expensive equipment once used for tobacco analysis at R.J. Reynolds is now an important tool for local medical research. So how did it get from here to there?
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Sowing seeds of self-sufficiency
Living standards in American Indian communities are generally not that
great. But the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundation is helping to do
something about that.
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A living geography lesson
Thanks to a chance encounter by an R.J. Reynolds executive and the open hearts of children at a riding academy in North Carolina, students in an Afghanistan school started the year with basic supplies that are in desperately short supply.
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Dollar by dollar, brick by brick
The rural North Carolina community of East Bend built its new library the hard way, but a little financial help from the Reynolds American Foundation made a big difference.
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Shelter from the storm
One of the best places for young kids at risk in the Memphis neighborhood of
Brinkley Heights is a private school, thanks to the financial support of
donors such as American Snuff Co.’s Charitable Trust.
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It’s off to work they go
Painting, cleaning, repairing. There’s no down time for employees at
Reynolds American and R.J. Reynolds when they volunteer for
the annual Days of Caring.
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