Philanthropic Initiatives

America’s Charities mission is to develop the spirit of caring and sharing at the workplace. We do this by providing employers and employees with efficient, effective, low-cost workplace charitable giving campaigns; offering a broad range of charity choices that reflect the diversity of the American people; and providing member charities with the financial resources required to meet human service needs.

Best Buy believes in the power of teens, and @15 is a new platform to connect with them, give voice to their perspectives, and invest our resources—including the energy and talents of our employees—to turn their ideas into action and support their efforts to lead social change. Teens bring passion and enthusiasm to tackling tough issues. They are also important to our business—they shop in our stores, and they’re our future employees. There’s a real opportunity to listen to and learn from what teens have to say. And through the @15 Fund, we’ll put the philanthropic power of @15 directly into their hands.

Burton Snowboard’s chill mission is to provide a vehicle for self-esteem to disadvantaged inner-city youth, ages 10-18, through the sport of snowboarding.

This key Washington DC-based charity provides fundraising to benefit two National Institutes of Health (NIH) charities: Special Love and Friends of the Clinical Center.

Children’s Joy Foundation (a non-government organisation which is taking care of abused, neglected and abandoned street children in the country) and the Philippine Children’s Medical Center (public hospital partly subsidized by the government) Cancer Patients’ ward.

If you are an organisation in a community with a GXS customer, you should approach the customer to champion sponsorship. If you are an organisation in a community with a major GXS facility, you should contact GXS Vice President of Human Resources, Pamela Angelis, at pamela.angelis@gxs.com.