Office Depot is strongly committed to making a difference wherever we do business. Through partnerships with organizations as wide-ranging as City of Hope, Toys for Tots, America's Second Harvest, the Canadian Association of Food Banks, Feed The Children and Gifts In Kind International, Office Depot provides our associates worldwide with opportunities to support our core values. By investing in initiatives that help to enhance quality of life for children everywhere, we demonstrate our continuing dedication to "Taking Care of Kids."

City of Hope

Founded in 1913, City of Hope began with two tents that were built at the base of California's San Gabriel Mountains as a refuge for people stricken with tuberculosis. Today, those two tents have evolved into what are now the City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute. The organization's goal remains the same - to seek out treatments and cures for diseases that take too many lives far too soon. City of Hope is a Comprehensive Cancer Center - the highest accolade given by the National Cancer Institute - and one of the most advanced biomedical research and treatment facilities in the world. This remarkable organization is dedicated to the prevention, treatment and cure of cancer and other life threatening diseases.

Office Depot, which has supported City of Hope for many years, directly impacts the health of men, women and children by supporting the treatment of City of Hope's patients suffering from life-threatening diseases. City of Hope has made tremendous contributions, but there is much more work to be done. To find out how you can make a difference in the life of someone suffering from cancer, diabetes and other illnesses, visit www.cityofhope.org.

Feed The Children

During our 27-year history, Feed The Children has grown into one of the world's largest private organizations dedicated to helping hungry and hurting people. Last year, Feed The Children shipped 183 million pounds of food other essentials to children and families in all 50 states and internationally, supplementing more than 1,463,000 meals a day worldwide. To date, the organization has delivered more than 600 truckloads of relief to locations across the region affected by the Gulf Coast hurricanes in 2005 - including millions of dollars worth of supplies donated by Office Depot.

Since its founding in 1979, Feed The Children has reached out to help children and families in 118 countries around the globe. The heart of Feed The Children's U.S. program is distributing food to needy families. To do this, it works closely with caring corporate partners that donate surplus food and other supplies, as well as with individual donors who help defray the cost of transporting the product donations. To learn more, visit www.feedthechildren.org.

Gifts In Kind International

In 2001, Office Depot formed a partnership with Gifts In Kind International, the world's leading charity in product philanthropy. The partnership places donated products in the hands of hundreds of worthy nonprofit organizations across the nation by matching Office Depot's stores and facilities in North America with qualified 501(c)(3) organizations.

Founded in 1984, Gifts In Kind International offers charities access to more than $800 million annually in product and service donations through its broad-based network of affiliated programs and established relationships with nonprofit organizations. During the past several years, Office Depot's partnership with Gifts In Kind International helped to place products worth tens of millions of dollars in the hands of widely diverse organizations that serve communities in many important ways. To find out more about ongoing product donations from Office Depot through Gifts In Kind International, please visit www.giftsinkind.org.

Helping to End Hunger

Office Depot is helping to fight hunger in North America through partnerships with two important organizations.

America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network

The largest charitable hunger-relief organization in the United States, America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network serves all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico through a network of more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue organizations. It supports approximately 50,000 local charitable agencies operating more than 94,000 programs, including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs and Kids Cafes.

The America's Second Harvest Network secures and distributes nearly 2 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually. Last year, food assistance was provided to more than 25 million low-income hungry people in the United States, including more than 9 million children and nearly 3 million seniors. To learn more, visit www.secondharvest.org.

The Canadian Association of Food Banks

The Canadian Association of Food Banks' network of more than 250 member food banks (many with food-rescue programs) serves all 10 provinces and three territories through approximately 2,800 local nonprofit hunger-relief agencies, including food pantries, soup kitchens, women's shelters, community kitchens and other organizations that provide emergency food assistance. The CAFB HungerCount survey reports that 823,856 Canadians used a food bank in March 2005 and 40% of food bank clients were children. According to a Statistics Canada Health Report, 3.7 million people in Canada do not have enough food, do not have adequate quality food or worry about their next meal.

While CAFB provides food daily for people in need - serving approximately 90 % of people who use emergency food programs nationwide - its ultimate goal is a hunger-free Canada. For more information, visit www.cafb-acba.ca.

Keep America Beautiful

Keep America Beautiful is the nation's largest community improvement organization dedicated to inspiring environmental stewardship. Keep America Beautiful works to engage individuals to take great responsibility for improving their local community environments and enhancing quality of life by successfully implementing an effective, systematic strategy for reducing waste, preventing litter and beautifying communities nationwide.

Established in 1953, the organization has a national network involving more than 565 town, city, and county affiliates and 22 statewide programs, and this enthusiastic network leads the way in protecting and enhancing local environments in more than 15,000 communities. Keep America Beautiful provides sustainable solutions to improve the physical and visual aspects of community environments that individuals can directly impact in the areas of litter prevention, beautification and community improvement and waste reduction. For information, visit www.kab.org.

Click the links below to learn how you can Make a Difference to the environment.

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The Scripps Research Institute

In 2004, Office Depot announced a partnership with The Scripps Research Institute that will result in the establishment of an endowment to support a Childhood Neurological Disease Research Program at Scripps' new Florida facility. Office Depot is the first major corporate philanthropic partner to be announced by Scripps Florida, a division of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

Office Depot's contributions to Scripps will create the Office Depot Program in Childhood Neurological Disease Research and will fund research by Shelley Halpain, Ph.D., and Steve Kay, Ph.D., among other Scripps researchers in the Institute of Childhood and Neglected Diseases. Scripps Florida in Palm Beach County represents the first time that The Scripps Research Institute will create a center for its world-class research beyond its original campus. To learn more, visit www.scripps.edu.

Toys for Tots

Children make up 19 percent of the United States' population. An estimated 15 million of them live in poverty. Their families often have very little hope of buying toys for the holidays. Office Depot helps to change this sad reality. Through our partnership with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program, we make it possible for our associates and our customers alike to put smiles on the faces of children.

During the holiday season, you can get involved by buying the collectible stuffed bear "Teddy B. Caring" in Office Depot retail stores throughout the United States. If you would like to support a Toys for Tots drive in your community, you can get details by visiting the Toys for Tots web site at www.toysfortots.org. You will be able to check your state to see if there is a program in your area.

Other Partnerships

Office Depot partners with a number of other nonprofit organizations and causes that enhance quality of life for communities and individuals. These include:

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children & Women

Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando, Florida, is the only hospital in the Southeast -- and one of only six in the nation -- dedicated exclusively to serving the special needs of children and women. It is truly the "hospital built for kids," with extensive resources devoted to ensuring the safe arrival of babies into the world. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Arnold Palmer Hospital is a Level III unit capable of the highest level of care for high-risk newborns. More than 20,000 infants have been successfully treated since the unit opened more than 25 years ago, and it consistently demonstrates the best outcome statistics in the state for low birth-weight babies. To learn more, visit www.arnoldpalmerhospital.org.

CASA

Every child deserves a stable, loving home. Yet one million American children are confirmed victims of abuse and neglect each year, and over half a million of them are in foster care. CASA volunteers serve as advocates and protectors for over 200,000 of these abused and neglected children. CASA's nationwide network of 930 state and local organizations champions the best interests of these children, giving them a chance to have a true childhood and providing them with hope for a better future. CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) volunteers come from all walks of life - they share a commitment to helping children by serving as powerful advocates for these children, one child at a time, within the child welfare system. These children need someone to speak up for them to ensure their timely placement in safe, secure, permanent homes where they will have a chance to thrive. To learn more, visit www.nationalcasa.org.

Code Adam

Established in memory of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, who was abducted and later found murdered in 1981, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, VA, provides assistance to parents, children, law enforcement agencies, schools and communities in recovering missing children while simultaneously raising public awareness designed to prevent child abductions. Its Code Adam program is one of the country's largest child-safety awareness initiatives. In 2001, Office Depot introduced Code Adam in its retail stores throughout North America. All Office Depot store employees are trained in the six-step Code Adam program. For information, visit www.missingkids.com/html/code_adam.html.

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America

No community is immune to drugs and their related problems. The economic burden of substance abuse to the U.S. economy is estimated at a staggering $414 billion annually. Drug, alcohol and tobacco use currently cost schools throughout the country an extra $41 billion per year in truancy, violence, disciplinary programs, school security and other expenses. For the past 15 years, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) has led the fight against substance abuse by fostering the establishment and growth of community coalitions. Today, CADCA's over 5,000 community coalitions are reducing youth drug use and making their communities safe, healthy and drug-free. Coalitions deal with a diverse set of strategies to change community norms, reaching people where they live, work and go to school. CADCA's Drug-Free Kids Campaign is an effort to shine a spotlight on the serious problem of substance abuse and addiction and show how community-based strategies are working to combat these concerns. To learn more, visit: www.cadca.org

Dress for Success

Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. Since starting operations in 1997, Dress for Success has expanded to more than 80 cities in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the UK. To date, Dress for Success has helped more that 350,000 women work towards self-sufficiency. Women are referred to Dress for Success by not-for-profit and government agencies including homeless shelters, immigration services, job training programs and domestic violence shelters. Each Dress for Success client receives one suit when she has a job interview and a week's worth of separates when she gets the job. The Dress for Success Professional Women's Group program then provides ongoing support to help the client build a successful career. For more information, visit www.dressforsuccess.org.

National Ovarian Cancer Coalition

The National Ovarian Cancer Coalition is the leading ovarian cancer public information and education organization in the United States. The organization initiated the first toll free ovarian cancer information line (1-888-OVARIAN), maintains the most comprehensive website for ovarian cancer support in the world (www.ovarian.org) and has built a network of many state divisions across the U.S. Its mission is to raise awareness about ovarian cancer and to promote education about this disease. By dispelling myths and misunderstandings, the coalition is committed to improve the overall survival rate and quality of life for women with ovarian cancer.