In the Community

An important goal of The Washington Post Company is to be a responsible corporate citizen, and there are many ways we contribute to the communities in which we do business.

Company Contributions

The company and its operating divisions give more than $5 million annually to a variety of worthy organizations and initiatives. Our contributions are concentrated in the following areas:

• Civic and Community
• Health and Human Services
• Education
• Culture and Art
• Matching Gifts

Matching Gifts are a key component of the company's contributions program. The company matches employee gifts to nonprofit organizations on a $1-to-$1 basis and on a $2-to-$1 basis (to a maximum employee contribution of $2,000) for educational institutions and organizations in which employees are active volunteers.

Community Outreach

Every division of The Washington Post Company sponsors a wide array of outreach initiatives that take advantage of the company's special resources to benefit local communities.

The Washington Post newspaper, for example, sponsors a Newspaper in the Classroom project that distributes more than 70,000 newspapers and instructional material every week to area schools. The Post also sponsors the Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Awards and the Vincent E. Reed Principals Leadership Institute, among many other programs.

Each Post-Newsweek television station plays an active role in its community through such initiatives as telethons for local organizations and causes, blood drives, cancer screenings, and disaster relief efforts.

Cable One provides free educational programming and cable hookups to schools in its systems.

The Newsweek Education Program enables teachers to receive class sets of Newsweek, including instruction resources for social studies, economics, or ESL programs, and a weekly teachers guide and news quiz.

Kaplan offers free SAT preparation to economically disadvantaged students. Newsweek and Kaplan sponsor the "My Turn" Essay Competition, which attracts more than 3,000 essays from high school students across the country each year.

Volunteerism

The company encourages employees to participate actively in organizations that serve the community, and we have created a number of programs that promote volunteer efforts. For example, The Washington Post, The Gazette newspapers and Newsweek have formed partnerships with local schools where company employees serve as mentors and tutors. Kaplan-trained volunteers help hundreds of college-bound high school juniors and seniors prepare for their SATs. The company's cable and broadcast divisions also sponsor local volunteer programs.