*NEWS*XEROX EMPLOYEES GET PAID LEAVES

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8 Xerox Employees Receive Paid Leaves to Focus on Full-Time Community Service
 Eight
Xerox Corporation  employees will take 3- to 12-month fully paid
sabbaticals in 2006 to help nonprofit organizations in their
communities. For example, manager Katelyn Dyer will use her sales and
marketing skills at Junior Achievement of Rochester, which teaches
students the economics of life through hands-on projects, to increase
funding for the organization and create a marketing plan. She’ll also
present practical lessons to students such as these third-graders at
Rochester’s School 14. Since Xerox Social Service Leave began in 1971,
469 employees have been granted sabbaticals. (Photo credit: Burr Lewis
STAMFORD,
Conn.–Jan. , 2006–Aiming to make a measurable impact on the places
they work and live, eight Xerox Corporation  employees are taking
sabbaticals to tackle full-time community service projects throughout
2006 – while their full pay continues from Xerox.For up to a year, the
employees will apply their technical, business and personal skills to
address a range of social issues, such as advocating for abused
children, supporting military families, improving emergency response
systems, and more.
The leaves of absence are part of The Xerox
Foundation’s long-standing Social Service Leave initiative, which has
granted sabbaticals of up to one year to 469 employees since the
program began in 1971. One of few corporate sabbatical programs that
provide paid opportunities for employees to volunteer full-time, Social
Service Leave is believed to be the oldest of its kind in American
business.
“Xerox people have a long tradition of investing their own
time and talent to make communities better,” said Anne M. Mulcahy,
Xerox chairman and CEO. “Offering this unique Social Service Leave is
the strongest way for Xerox to further encourage and reward that kind
of generosity. It’s a part of our unwavering belief in demonstrating
corporate responsibility to our stakeholders and throughout our
operations.”Xerox estimates that through the collective efforts of
Social Service Leave participants, it has donated about a half-million
volunteer hours over the past 34 years.Under the leave, the eight Xerox
people will work for nonprofit agencies in seven states to accomplish
projects of the employees’ design and choosing. The 2006 Xerox Social
Service Leave participants are:
— Harry C. Burch, engineering
specialist, Rochester, N.Y.: 6 months with the Rochester Fire
Department to help implement an interactive information system that
will link local emergency services into a central repository.
—
Katelyn Dyer, business development manager, Rochester, N.Y.: 6 months
with Junior Achievement of Rochester to oversee fundraising efforts and
to develop a marketing plan.
— Ken McClellan, production systems
analyst, Bensalem, Pa.: 3 months with the Interfaith Housing
Development Corp., a Bristol-based nonprofit developer of affordable
housing for low-income families, to restructure databases of critical
information and provide IT support.
— Susan E. Mead, global
purchasing manager, Portland, Ore.: 3 months with the Girl Scouts
Columbia River Council to help recruit and teach students at a camp
that introduces young girls to opportunities in engineering, design and
technology.
— Kathleen L. Norman, solutions consultant, Wilmington,
Ohio: 12 months with the National Military Family Association in
Alexandria, Va., to conduct grant-writing, fundraising and marketing in
support of projects like camps for children of deployed service members
and education aid for military spouses.
— Judy E. Sarmiento,
account associate, Oakland, Calif.: 12 months with California Indian
Legal Services, which provides legal representation and other services
to low-income people, to provide training, technical assistance,
outreach materials, fundraising and more.
— Charlene Saulter, field
service manager, Stone Mountain, Ga.: 6 months to serve as an advocacy
coordinator and volunteer supervisor for Court Appointed Special
Advocates in Decatur, Ga., a group that supports abused and neglected
children under the protection of the juvenile court.|
— Susan V.
Schmidberger, national sales support associate, Glen Rock, N.J.: 6
months with the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard
of Hearing to help develop a “parent-to-parent” network with the New
Jersey and New York chapters and a national parent support database.
Social
Service Leave was conceived by former Xerox president Archie McCardell
in 1970. He and another Xerox executive were on a flight from
California, where they had made a donation to a university on behalf of
Xerox. A conversation about how “easy” it was to give money turned into
a discussion about what kind of philanthropic gesture would represent a
genuine sacrifice for Xerox. They concluded that the company’s most
valuable asset was its employees, and that offering employees’ time
would demonstrate a true philanthropic commitment by the company>
Then-CEO
C. Peter McColough said in a letter to employees announcing the program
in 1971: “Each year we contribute several million dollars to worthwhile
institutions and projects. Yet we don’t think that’s enough … so we
decided to offer what we can least afford to give – the full-time
service of Xerox people.”
Social Service Leave represents just one
of the ways that employees volunteer in their communities with Xerox
support, and it was among the programs that helped Xerox earn the 2005
U.S. Community Service Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center
for Corporate Citizenship. Philanthropy is a fundamental component of
Xerox’s corporate citizenship efforts, which include environment and
health programs, diversity and employee support, ethics initiatives and
more.

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January 25, 2006 at 10:35 AM