The PepsiCo Foundation has a long history of encouraging employee involvement in the community through non-profit groups. The Foundation's commitment to encourage the personal contributions and volunteer leadership of PepsiCo associates continues today through the Foundation's Matching Gifts program, support for United Way Campaigns, and Community Service Days.

The PepsiCo Foundation matches employee gifts to nonprofit organizations through a Matching Gifts program and United Way. In 2006, Matching Gifts totaled $4,436,795.45 and United Way $2,880,769. Grants are made to nonprofit groups where employees volunteer.

In 2006, the PepsiCo Foundation donated $542,881 in support of the PepsiCo Employee Community Service Days initiative.   During PepsiCo's 2006 Global Week of Community Service, roughly 1,082 associates spent time serving their local communities and service organizations, making the 2006 activities the most successful to date.  The turnout was the largest in the six-year history of formal employee community engagement, where employees served more than 8000 hours and contributed an estimated value of $200,000 to improve local community resources. Here is a snapshot of the improvement activities led by City Year's youth service corps:

Chicago IL: Over 2 days 130 Quaker Tropicana and Gatorade associates helped improve facilities at a Boy's and Girl's Club of America as well as in head-start and kindergarten classrooms, after-school facilities, a senior activity center, and a safe house that supports transition programs for children.

New York NY: Over 2 days 420 PepsiCo associates in Westchester County performed indoor and outdoor clean up and beautification proejects at the Williamsbridge Oval Park in the Bronx. The park serves low-income residents, 35% of whom are foreign-born.

Plano TX: 124 associates performed indoor and outdoor cleaning, painting and installed a fence at the YWCA Garland Child Care Center.

Mexico: Over 2 days 158 associates from Gatorade and Sabritas operations in Guadalajara and Mexico City supported improvements at a Mexico City school with more than 260 children and family members participating in the service project. In Guadalajara, essential cleaning and improvements were made to a community shelter providing care and recreation for approximately 120 children.

South Africa: 250 associates from PepsiCo's Simba operations conducted six full days of employee volunteerism projects in a variety of child care sites and settings in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Ga Matlala.

City Year brings together young adults, ages 17-24, from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds for a demanding year of full-time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement. The young adults at City Year lead PepsiCo employees in employee community service days to give back to the community and provide opportunities for teambuilding.

Since 1981, the PepsiCo Foundation has awarded more than $39 million in college scholarships to children of employees around the world.