Deutsche Bank Employees and corporate social responsibility Non-Financial Report 2022 Corporate social responsibility Key topics and impact in 2022 GRI 203-1, 413-1, FS16 Support for Ukraine Deutsche Bank made a € 1 million donation to support relief efforts in Ukraine and launched a global fundraising drive. Employees donated more than € 500,000, bringing the bank’s overall support to more than € 1.5 million. Donations went to Red Cross organizations and the International Medical Corps. In light of the paramount humanitarian needs of refugees from Ukraine, employees in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Germany and other countries organized and participated in local relief projects such as donation drives for essential goods. The bank also directed all funds from its German payroll giving scheme to wellcome gGmbH, a charity that helps Ukrainian mothers and their young children. Deutsche Bank Foundation supported the school start package initiative of the charity CARE Deutschland e.V. with € 350,000. The project enables schoolchildren who fled Ukraine to attend classes quickly. And Deutsche Bank joined forces with JobAidUkraine, a free-to-use website that encourages companies to post available jobs and matches them with Ukrainian refugees. Launch of environmental impact program How We Live In 2022, the global CSR strategy was aligned more closely with the bank’s ESG agenda by launching the How We Live program for environmental impact. Alongside the sustainable finance for clients and the steps the bank is taking to improve its own business, aim of the new program is to give employees the chance to get involved in protecting and restoring nature and providing education about their environment. In cooperation with local grassroots organizations, environmental groups, and charities, How We Live targets critical issues for nature and communities across the world. For example, in 2022, the bank launched a new partnership with The Nature Conservancy to support community conservation projects in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Mainland China and Australia, which aims to safeguard wildlife species and replenish shellfish reefs. In 2022, more than 2,800 employees were engaged in How We Live projects. For example, they volunteered in reforestation projects and planted over 108,000 trees in 2022 alone. On top of that, over 26,000 people and 64 schools were reached through environmental awareness initiatives or training. Promoting financial literacy Deutsche Bank’s CSR agenda further focused on the financial education of the next generation. In Germany, employees impart praxis-oriented financial knowledge to school students from grade 5 onwards. The project “So geht Geld” offers 90- minute teaching units on financial topics in schools and additional digital learning modules. To further raise the social impact, a clear goal was set in 2021 to have 700 colleagues by year end 2022 and for each of them to give at least one lesson on financial literacy per year. The bank exceeded this target. As of year end 2022, 1,056 employees in Germany registered. They visited 593 schools and held 1,072 workshops. The bank's financial education initiative helps address the results of a study conducted by the Association of German Banks (Bundesverband deutscher Banken, BdB) in 2021 which highlighted that more than three quarters of young people in Germany aged 14 to 24 do not feel well informed about economic issues. In addition, (*) promotes 12 financial literacy projects in Asia-Pacific, the United Kingdom, the the Born to Be youth engagement program United States, and Europe. Impact measurement and targets To ensure that resources are deployed efficiently and that projects are fully aligned with the CSR agenda’s strategic objectives, Deutsche Bank uses the Global Impact Tracking tool to monitor its investments’ direct impact and systematically gather feedback from community partners on an annual basis. The bank also measures its projects’ social return on investment according to the London Benchmarking Group methodology, with a focus on strategic community investments. The insights from these analyses have enabled the bank to improve its CSR strategy and portfolio over time. Deutsche Bank aims to further enhance the positive impact of its initiatives by prioritizing the CSR focus areas and encouraging employees to serve as corporate volunteers. Quantitative targets for each CSR focus area have been set: With its Born to Be youth engagement program, the bank aims to make a positive impact on the lives of seven million children and youngsters by 2025 (since 2014). For the Made for Good enterprise program, the bank has set itself the goal to reach a total of 45,000 enterprises by 2025 (since 2016). With the community initiatives, the bank plans to reach six million people by 2025 (since 2015). With regard to employee engagement, the goal is to keep the annual corporate volunteering rate at around 20 %, continuing the focus on skills-based volunteering. Deutsche Bank aims to maintain annual giving totals in matching and payroll giving programs at around € 10 million (employees and bank combined). In all areas, the bank is well under way to reaching its targets. The figures are also disclosed in the Appendix – ESG-related goals of this report. (*) CSR websites provide This report highlights some of Deutsche Bank’s CSR activities. 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