Dell Supports Employee Volunteerism with Donations to Charities Around the Globe

ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

The Dell Foundation recently awarded more than $150,000 to charities worldwide as part of the company's annual volunteer recognition program.

Non-profit organizations from more than a dozen countries received cash contributions in recognition of the hands-on contributions of Dell employees.

    --  Dell's annual "Volunteers of Distinction" program recognizes
        employees chosen from a pool of global nominations submitted
        by employees. The Dell Foundation awards cash grants to the
        charities for which the winning employee or team of employees
        volunteered.

    --  The Volunteers of Distinction program is one aspect of Dell's
        effort to support employees who contribute positively in the
        communities where they work and live. One Dell: One Community
        efforts also include Global Community Involvement Month and
        matching grants for qualified employee donations to non-profit
        organizations.

    --  The donations benefit nearly 100 global charities representing
        a range of sizes and social causes. For example, the Legal Aid
        Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands was founded to
        help low-income people gain equal access to justice when they
        have nowhere else to turn. The society provides individual
        legal representation free of charge through eight offices
        serving 48 counties.

    --  Dell employees Ciaran Crotty, John Quaid, and Tony Bedford in
        Limerick, Ireland, were recognized as Team Volunteers of
        Distinction for their work with Chernobyl Children's Project
        International. The organization develops, facilitates, and
        affects long-term sustainable community-based solutions and
        provides effective medical and humanitarian assistance to the
        victims and survivors of Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear
        disaster. The team hosted 34 Belarusian children for a month,
        helped renovate their orphanage, and raised funds to pay the
        salaries of four of the orphanage's nurses.

    --  Other beneficiaries of the Dell Volunteers of Distinction
        program include:

        --  Brazil: Casa do Jardim;

        --  Canada: The North York Women's Centre;

        --  China: Xiamen Education Fund, Dalian Charity Federation,
            The Animal Protection Group Dalian, Cyrus Tang Foundation;

        --  El Salvador: Fundacion Sagerera Palomo;

        --  India: Viveka Trust, Ashwini Charitable Trust, Centre for
            Humanity and Nature;

        --  Ireland: Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
            Children in Dublin, Ballybunion Sea Rescue, The Bluebell
            School for Children with Autism;

        --  Malaysia: The Friends of Penang Botanic Gardens Society,
            Penang Wheelchair Tennis Association, Pork Tay High
            School;

        --  Panama: Nutre-Hogar;

        --  Slovakia: Mladeznicka Organizacia;

        --  United States: GirlStart, Hospice Austin, AIDS Services of
            Austin, Rock On Center for Kids, Make-A-Wish Foundation,
            Youth Villages, The Cincinnati Chapter of the American Red
            Cross, The Girls Scouts Tarheel Triad Council.

"Some of the most meaningful resources we can offer our communities are Dell employees' time, talent, and expertise," said Lisa Huddleson, executive director of the foundation. "The Volunteers of Distinction program is our way of encouraging and rewarding employees who actively participate in the communities they call home."

"Volunteering with Legal Aid Society is important to me because it reminds me why I became a lawyer in the first place -- to solve problems and address needs in my community," said Ann Pruitt, Legal Director and Volunteer of Distinction Winner. "My commitment to Legal Aid began in my third year of law school when legal clinic work demonstrated to me that legal advocacy for the disadvantaged is often the difference in being homeless or not... having food or not...having access to healthcare or not... having disability benefits or not. I committed that doing pro bono work and being an advocate for access to justice would always remain an important part of my life."

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Source: Dell Inc.

Released June 12, 2008