Easter Seals National Corporate Sponsors

Easter Seals national corporate sponsors contributed more than $15 million last year to help Easter Seals provide services for children and adults with disabilities and their families in communities nationwide.

Companies and organizations partner with Easter Seals to:

• strengthen their ties in local communities,
• provide meaningful volunteer opportunities for their employees,
• build a positive image with their customers, their employees and their communities,
• increase marketing reach and visibility of their brands, and
• make a positive difference in the lives of children and adults with disabilities.

Easter Seals thanks its national corporate sponsors for their long-standing support, dedication and leadership in putting hope within reach for people with disabilities. The name of each sponsor links to more information on that company or organization's commitment to Easter Seals.

Chairman's Corporate Roundtable: contributing $1 million or more
Safeway Inc. Safeway Inc. is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America. Since 1986, hundreds of thousands of Safeway employees have worked tirelessly to contribute more than $93 million to help Easter Seals make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities in communities it serves. Each April, all 1,700+ Safeway stores across the country raise funds to support Easter Seals services in local communities. Easter Seals is overwhelmed by the hard work of employees from each Safeway store (including Vons, Tom Thumb, Dominick's, Randall's, Genuardi's, Carrs and Pavilions) who raised over $7.8 million in 2008.
Century 21 Real Estate LLC Century 21 Real Estate LLC is the franchisor of the world's largest residential real estate sales organization, providing comprehensive training, management, administrative and marketing support for the CENTURY 21 System. The System is comprised of more than 8,500 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in 64 countries and territories worldwide. CENTURY 21 is a top contributor to Easter Seals with nearly $98 million in contributions since 1979.
Food Lion, LLC Founded in 1957 in Salisbury, N.C., as Food Town, Food Lion’s success is based on the principle of offering quality products at great prices and neighborly services in clean, conveniently located stores. Food Lion, LLC has supported Easter Seals for over 16 years, raising over $16 million to support services for children and adults with disabilities. Easter Seals was proud to have Food Lion, LLC join the team of national corporate partners in 2007 with the Food Lion Shop&Care program to benefit Easter Seals in 11 states.
CVS Caremark Corporation CVS Caremark is the nation’s premier integrated pharmacy services provider, combining one of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical services companies with the country’s largest pharmacy chain. CVS Caremark fills or manages more than one billion prescriptions per year, more than any other pharmacy services provider. Through its 6,200 CVS/pharmacy stores; its pharmacy benefit management, mail order and specialty pharmacy division, Caremark Pharmacy Services; its retail-based health clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic; and its online pharmacy, CVS.com, CVS Caremark is helping build healthier communities and is a model of corporate social responsibility. For more than a decade, CVS has been a corporate partner of Easter Seals. CVS Caremark continues to support children with disabilities across the country through the CVS All Kids Can™ Program. Easter Seals is privileged to be selected as a national partner in the initiative which promises to help children with disabilities learn, play and succeed in life!
Friendly Ice Cream Corporation Friendly's Restaurants are a fun, relaxing place to go for great-tasting food and indulgent ice cream shoppe treats for more than 65 years! An Easter Seals partner for 28 years, Friendly's focuses a month each year on its Cones for Kids promotion and other special events. To date, Friendly's has raised more than $25.8 million to support Easter Seals services in its communities.

Corporate Leadership Circle: contributing $500,000 - $999,999
Amway Global Independent Business Owners Since 1983, Amway Global Independent Business Owners have partnered with Easter Seals to support services to children and adults with disabilities and their families. During this time over $29.3 million has been contributed by Amway Global Independent Business Owners.

Edgar Allen Corporate Society: contributing $100,000 - $499,999
Bank of America Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 56 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 5,700 retail banking offices, more than 17,000 ATMs and award-winning online banking with nearly 22 million active users. Bank of America is the No. 1 overall Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in the United States and the No. 1 SBA lender to minority-owned small businesses. The company serves clients in 175 countries and has relationships with 98 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and 80 percent of the Fortune Global 500.
Bayer HealthCare A division of Bayer Corporation, Bayer HealthCare is a leading manufacturer of over-the-counter medications. Since 1983, Bayer HealthCare has raised more than $6 million for Easter Seals with support from its extensive line of quality brands including Bayer Aspirin, Aleve, One-A-Day Multivitamins, Alka Seltzer and Phillips Milk of Magnesia.
Dr Pepper/7 Up The top non-cola soft drink company in North America, Dr Pepper/7UP's A&W brand has supported Easter Seals since 1987. A&W bottlers have generated nearly $8 million dollars through annual summer A&W Root Beer Float Fund-raisers, garnering the support of retailers and consumers in select markets to help children and adults with disabilities live better lives.
Fraternal Order of Police/Auxiliary/Associates The Fraternal Order of Police is the world's largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers with more than 300,000 members throughout the U.S. For 30 years, the FOP and its Auxiliary have provided outstanding volunteer service and raised more than $14 million for Easter Seals.
Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson produces products that serve a broad segment of medical needs, ranging from baby care, first aid and hospital products to prescription pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and products relating to family planning, dermatology and feminine hygiene. Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with Easter Seals, offers its Pathways to Independence grant totaling $800,000 awarded to Easter Seals affiliates.
MassMutual Financial Group The MassMutual Financial Group - comprised of member companies with more than $285 billion in assets under management as of year-end 2003 - is a global, growth-oriented diversified financial services organization providing life insurance, annuities, trust services, money management, and other financial products and services. The MassMutual Financial Group is a marketing name for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and its affiliates, which include OppenheimerFunds, Inc.; David L. Babson & Company Inc.; Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, Inc.; MML Investors Services Inc.; The MassMutual Trust Company; FSB Antares Capital Corporation; MML Bay State Life Insurance Company; C.M. Life Insurance Company; and MassMutual International, Inc.  MassMutual has contributed over $750,000 to Easter Seals in the last five years. The company offers a variety of products and services including its SpecialCare (sm) and LifeBridge (sm) Free Life Insurance Programs to help assure the financial well-being of people with disabilities and their families.
National Snowmobile Foundation The National Snowmobile Foundation is committed to educating the public about safe snowmobiling and assisting snowmobile organizations with fund raising for charity. Since 1989, its members have supported Easter Seals by raising nearly $7 million dollars through locally-coordinated snowmobile events.
News America Marketing A division of News Corporation, News America Marketing publishes SmartSource Magazine. SmartSource features a special Easter Seals-themed insert each spring, filled with valuable savings from Easter Seals Corporate Sponsors including Bayer HealthCare, and LensCrafters. For 14 years, the Easter Seals-themed SmartSource Magazine has helped generate more than $3.3 million for Easter Seals.
Realogy Realogy is one of the foremost providers of travel and real estate services in the world. Specifically, Realogy is the world's largest hotel franchisor; vacation ownership organization; real estate brokerage franchisor; and provider of outsourced corporate employee relocation services. The company is also one of the world's largest car rental operators and one of the leading providers of travel information processing services worldwide. Realogy is one of the largest retail mortgage originators in the United States and owns the second-largest tax preparation service in the U.S. With approximately 90,000 employees, New York City-based Realogy provides these services to businesses and consumers in over 100 countries.
U.S. Rotary Clubs A global volunteer organization, Rotary International helped found Easter Seals in 1919. Since 1988, Rotarians across the country have contributed more than $4.8 million dollars to ensure Easter Seals resources are available to people with disabilities to help them live with greater independence.

Corporate Council: contributing $30,000 - $99,999
Campbell Mithun Campbell Mithun, a billion-dollar full service advertising and marketing communications company, offers the expertise of its specialty resources and partners through three offices and 625 employees. The top-25 agency began collaborating with Easter Seals in 1988 to develop a new public service advertising campaign -- the beginning of an amazing partnership for Easter Seals.
Epsilon Sigma Alpha International Epsilon Sigma Alpha International is a leadership and service organization. Since 1984, ESA members have generously supported Easter Seals, volunteering their time and resources to raise more than $5 million to help children and adults with disabilities needing Easter Seals services throughout America.
LensCrafters With over 850 stores in the U.S. and Canada, LensCrafters is the industry leader in the optical retail market. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, LensCrafters revolutionized the optical industry as the first to bring together the doctor, the lens-making laboratory and a wide selection of frames and lenses. The opening of its first store in 1983 came with the unique promise of eyeglasses in about an hour.LensCrafters is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italian eyeglass frame manufacturer Luxottica Group S.p.A. and, through its support of Easter Seals' free-standing insert, has contributed more than $270,000 to the cause in the past six years.
Microsoft Microsoft, the world's leading software provider, consistently builds advanced accessibility features into its products and software. Microsoft has contributed nearly $3 million in advanced software and adaptive technologies to help Easter Seals bring new opportunities to people with disabilities. Compatibility between the operating system, software, and assistive technology products is a critical component of accessible technology. Identify the types of assistive technology products that might be useful, then search the catalog of assistive technology products compatible with Windows computers.
Pfizer Pfizer Inc, founded in 1849, is dedicated to better health and greater access to healthcare for people and their valued animals. Their purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives. The route to that purpose is through discovering and developing breakthrough medicines; providing information on prevention, wellness and treatment, such as their Medicine Safety Education resource site; consistent high-quality manufacturing of medicines, consumer products; and global leadership in corporate responsibility. Every day Pfizer helps 38 million patients, employs more than 100,000 people, utilizes the skills of more than 12,000 medical researchers, and works in partnership with governments, individuals, and other payers for healthcare to treat and prevent illnesses -- adding both years to life, and life to years.