0 Serving and Strengthening Communities Introduction Environmental Social Governance Indexes and Glossary Social Overview Community impact Inside Social Supporting Our Team Members Board and Workplace Diversity Products and Guest Experiences Built on Fairness and Equity Serving and Strengthening Communities Our success is interdependent with that of the communities we serve. Through Target Forward, we are committed to engaging with communities to build and implement solutions that drive positive impact and accelerate progress toward achieving our sustainability commitments and goals. Our community engagement strategy focuses on: • Corporate citizenship: Building trust and credibility among the partners and communities we serve. • Community vitality: Enabling the vitality and resilience of our team members and the communities we serve by unlocking aligned and integrated community-driven solutions and philanthropic strategies. • Target Foundation: Deploying leading-edge philanthropy that serves as a learning lab to transform the systems that create greater equity and opportunity. Corporate citizenship Target strives to be a trusted partner and responsible corporate citizen. Our corporate citizenship work is rooted in reinforcing our company’s purpose — to help all families discover the joy of everyday life — by supporting the communities we serve in a relevant, responsive and authentic way that builds brand love and enhances our license to operate. Our corporate citizenship team fulfills this role every day in how we show up for all families in times of crisis and moments of need, as we work to make meaningful, positive impact through philanthropic investments in our hometown and national communities. As a priority market, we proudly give back in the Twin Cities metro area by supporting civic, social and environmental concerns that align with our giving approach and that matter to the local community. In times of crisis, we provide supplies, volunteers and distribution networks through relief organizations. With a global supply chain, we are well positioned to move quickly to support our stores and guests, as well as providing year-round donations and funding to relief partner organizations. Throughout 2021, we contributed more than $7 million in support for Afghan refugees and relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, storm Uri in Texas and other disasters across the U.S. In 2021, we made a $5 million incremental commitment to community-based NGOs working to advance vaccine equity among diverse populations. For example, as COVID-19 cases soared across India, a $500,000 donation in April 2021 boosted countrywide access to oxygen treatment and more accurate testing. Additional donations were made to local nonprofits delivering vital aid across the country, including Minnesota Council on Foundations , the Minnesota Department of Health Equity Fund and Phyllis Wheatley Community Center Vaccine for Life program . We continued to support our team members in India with additional paid sick leave, time off and family care resources, and we limited local business hours so that people had the flexibility they needed to put their health, and that of their families, first. Our hometown work focused on rebuilding and equity in 2021. Our efforts to listen and convene community and local business partners together to support our community came to fruition through our participation in many collaborative programs. These included the Minneapolis Downtown Council’s Small Business grant program that provided 102 awards for downtown small businesses through the pandemic; the Minneapolis Foundation’s Restore, Rebuild and Reimagine Fund that helped more than 44 properties with small businesses on critical cultural and commercial corridors to build back stronger following the civil unrest of 2020; as well as public safety grants, product and food donations, and support of the newly formed George Floyd Memorial Foundation . Team member giving We empower our team members to extend a helping hand to each other. The Target Team Member Giving Fund was created to help colleagues who are facing financial hardship after a natural disaster or unforeseen personal events. The fund relies primarily on contributions from Target, with support from individual donations. Team members across the U.S. and India can apply for a grant up to $2,000 to help in times of hardship. During 2021, $1.2 million was contributed by team members, and nearly $3.1 million in direct support was granted to 3,920 team members. Holiday Great Gifttogether Our store and supply chain facilities built partnerships with local nonprofits to bring joy to nearly 3,500 families in need during the holiday season. The program was designed be national in scale but locally relevant. The Target team responded by volunteering their time to purchase, wrap and deliver gifts and essential items in over 1,700 communities nationwide. Target Circle Guests in our Target Circle loyalty program can use the votes they gain with every purchase to direct our funding toward nonprofits, such as food banks, pet shelters and youth programs. In 2021, guests cast 167 million votes to help direct $7 million in grant funding, supporting national scholarship organizations such as the Thurgood Marshall College Fund as well as local community nonprofits. Community vitality With stores, supply chain facilities and headquarter offices in over 2,000 communities across the country and world, Target’s community vitality team is dedicated to enabling the vitality and resilience of those communities. By 2030, engage and elevate community voices as we seek to build and implement community-driven solutions. The community vitality team works at the local level in three distinct ways: community-based philanthropy, team member engagement and collaboration across the enterprise. 2022 Target ESG Report 46
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