0 m II n Introduction Environmental Social Governance Indexes and Glossary SDG Index About This Report GRI Index SASB Index SDG Index TCFD Index UNGPRF Index Glossary SDG Our Goals and Accomplishments Aligned Target F orward Ambition Who Is Impacted Aligned SDG T argets and Related SDGs 4. Quality Education Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Our Goals: • By 2023, Target aims to eliminate complexity and barriers to entry by offering easily accessible benefits and resources to all Target team members focused on learning and car eer advancement, physical and mental health, family support and financial well-being. Our Accomplishments: • In 2021, Target launched a new debt-free education assistance benefit, giving team members access to free undergraduate and associated degrees, certificates, pr ograms, text books and course fees. • REACH invests $100 million in Black Communities, supporting students attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The Target Scholars P rogram goal is to provide 1,000 first-year students with $5,000 scholarships and access to mentoring, internships and networking opportunities. We also partner with local school districts, funding workshops, events and scholarships. See chapters: Supporting Our Team Members, Target Forward For more details: Target Forward, Offering Debt-Free Degrees to More Than 340,000 Target Team Members? Now That’s a Smart Move , Go back to school. Target will pay for it!, Inside Target’s $100 Million Investment in Black Communities, Our Latest Effort in Our Commitment to Advancing Racial Equity • Civil society or ganizations • Communities where we oper ate • Communities within our supply chain SDG Targets: 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.7, 4.A, 4.B Related SDG: 3 5. Gender Equality Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. SDG Business Benchmark: Gender balance across all levels of management. Our Goals: • Internal goal: By 2025, Target plans for 100% of suppliers to have policies and programs to advance gender equity. • External goal: In March 2022, announced our new DE&I goals. Our Accomplishments: • CARE’s Dignified Work supports the empowerment and well-being of female factory workers in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam, where COVID-19 risks have been high. During CO VID-19, CARE pivoted to deliver emergency response activities to benefit more than 25,000 people in these areas, with support that included cash assistance and cash-for-work opportunities, distribution of hygiene kits and PPE, roving medical centers providing essential medical services and establishing safe spaces for women to access information and support services during the pandemic. • In our supply chain communities, we partnered with CARE in Indonesia and Bangladesh to provide cash-for-work and cash voucher assistance to members of their women’ s Empowerment, Knowledge and Transformative Action (EKATA) groups. This initiative aims to mitigate the immediate socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic. • We support empowerment of indigenous women in Guatemala through the Friendship Bridge organization. • We work with an ever-growing roster of suppliers; at least 51% are owned, controlled and operated by women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, veterans or people with disabilities. Our DE&I Efforts: • Women team members are paid 100% of the pay for men, and promotions of women to senior leadership levels increased by 16%. • We participate in numerous annual conferences (e.g., Target Elevate’s virtual conference and AnitaB.org’s annual conference) to help grow the number of women in t echnology and enable more women in technical fields to reach their full potential. • Increased female representation in Target India by 24%. See chapters: Supporting Our Team Members, Serving and Strengthening Communities For more details: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Guardrails for Inclusion & Empathy, Team Members and Guests (DE&I), Workforce Diversity Report, Supply Chain Labor & Human Rights P olicies, Dignified Work, Target’s 2019–2021 DE&I Journey, Target Forward, Human Rights • Communities within our supply chain • Team members • Vendors SDG Targets: 5.5, 5.B Related SDG: 10 6. Clean Water and Sanitation Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Our Accomplishments: • In identifying water risks and water-stressed regions where we operate, and in conjunction with Target Forward, we have started to set new value chain goals that r eflect the context of our water stewardship approach. We continue to operate under the principles originally outlined in our freshwater stewardship approach to guide our ongoing work. • Guided by our freshwater stewardship approach, we focus on safeguarding freshwater quality, quantity and access, tailoring our approach to manage impact in high-priority ar eas, products and processes. • Features across sites include rain gardens, green roofs and stormwater retention basins. • Best practice stormwater management systems are in place, with partnerships to improve stormwater infrastructure and benefit local watersheds. See chapter: Responsible Resource Use For more details: Sustainable Operations, 2022 CDP Response: Water , Target Forward, Supply Chain Environmental Responsibility, Chemicals, Here’s a First Look at T arget’s Fresh Approach to Sustainable Water Management • Civil society or ganizations • Communities where we oper ate • Communities within our supply chain • Environment • Vendors SDG Targets: 6.1, 6.4, 6.A, 6.B Related SDG: 14 2022 Target ESG Report 90