Rebuilding New Orleans together.
Communities along the U.S. Gulf Coast affected by the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita have faced a long and difficult task to recover and rebuild.
In 2005 The Starbucks Foundation and Starbucks Coffee Company pledged $5 million over five years for relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts immediately following the storms.
Sharing the power of 9,000 volunteers.
Starbucks was involved in an extraordinary way in early fiscal 2009, contributing one of the largest blocks of service in the history of New Orleans. Starbucks mobilized 9,000 partners (employees) to contribute about 36,500 service hours in projects from October 27-30, 2008. This was a big step toward accomplishing our Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ goal to contribute more than one million hours of community service per year in communities where we do business by 2015.
We helped restore homes, parks and schools by painting, landscaping, cleaning up, planting trees, building playgrounds and creating artistic murals. The Starbucks Foundation invested $900,000 in fiscal 2008 to local organizations to support the effort.
Continuing to help with COAST Fund community grants.
Starbucks continues to be involved with community-based grants through the Creators of a Strong Tomorrow (COAST) Fund. COAST Fund grants are awarded to community-based, grass roots organizations that are directly involved in the recovery efforts. Starbucks partners who live in the Gulf Coast area participate in the review and recommendations of COAST Fund grants.
