OUR PURPOSE PIONEERING SCIENCE REPORTING 107 BIOGEN 2021 YEAR IN REVIEW PATIENTS OUR PEOPLE ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY 10 years of Caring Deeply At the very heart of Biogen’s caring deeply ethos are our people. In 2021, employees gave of their time and financial resources to support their communities and to serve humanity. Through our matching gifts program, employees donated more than $2.2 million to organizations around the world, giving generously to address crisis situations, including the situation in Afghanistan and the COVID-19 spike in India. This past year also marked the 10th anniversary of Biogen Care Deeply Day, our annual day of service. In celebration, we hosted a Care Deeply Challenge, inviting employees to jointly contribute 10,000 volunteer hours to their communities. Employees enthusiastically answered the call around the world, serving not just 10,000 but more than 14,000 hours, smashing our global goal and tripling the number of volunteer hours from the prior year. The Challenge also intersected with our Healthy Climate, Healthy Lives commitment. In Seoul, South Korea, for example, employees “plogged” for one of their Care Deeply Challenge activities, which is a local term used to describe exercising while picking up trash to beautify communities. Halfway around the world, employees in Bogota, Colombia, also took part in tree planting and reforestation efforts in their region to support the climate through their volunteering. EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEER HOURS 2020 1 4,370 HOURS 2021 14,493 HOURS 1. Volunteer hours were lower than average in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. SPOTLIGHT Biogen Colombia receives Care Deeply Challenge Award During Biogen’s Care Deeply Challenge, employees from office sites around the world not only came together with the goal of cumulatively contributing 10,000 volunteer hours, but they also competed to attain the title of the office contributing the most volunteer hours. In 2021, the honor of highest volunteering office went to Biogen Colombia. To achieve this feat, employees were involved in one of four team activities: planting an ecological garden of vegetables and aromatic plants that will be used for sale and obtain an economic benefit for the Marquez Sidewalk community; painting and playing games with 50 3- to 8-year-old children through Fundación Mariana Novoa , which supports child well-being, nutrition and artistic training; reforesting a protected area with 20 new trees; and upgrading the Mariana Novoa Foundation facilities with newly painted, colorful walls for the children to enjoy. “We are a company committed to changing lives, creating solutions that will give well-being and teamwork,” says Nathalie Michelou Pulido, Corporate Affairs & Patient Advocacy Manager at Biogen Colombia. “Colombia is a very unequal country. The Biogen team is sensitive to these realities, and therefore we are committed to helping and providing well-being.” Upon winning the Care Deeply Challenge, Biogen Colombia selected as the recipient of a $10,000 donation from Biogen the Fundación Tiempo de Juego , a nonprofit that builds life skills among children and youth through sports, arts and technology, inspiring them to become agents of change. Image above: Reforestation and tree planting by employees Juan David Ramirez and Juan José Esmeral Pavajeau in Bogota, Colombia.