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Social Contribution Activity Policies

Basic Philosophy

Toyota Industries is respectful of the people, culture, and tradition of each country and region. It also works to promote economic growth and prosperity in those countries.

1Basic Perspective

Toyota Industries is aiming to achieve sustainable corporate development while also striving to fulfill its role as a good corporate citizen through a wide range of local community activities in the areas where its businesses operate. Toyota Industries is actively promoting many different social contribution activities in an effort to bring about a wholesome and more prosperous society. Active cooperation and support activities are being promoted through the provision of human resources, facilities, funding, and know-how. Toyota Industries' employees also endeavor to be of service to the community in their own way through activities such as volunteering.

2Social Contribution Activity System

Toyota Industries and our many affiliates both domestically and overseas have organized themselves around their local production bases to promote social contribution activities in their local communities.
For example, at Toyota Industries' Corporate Center the Corporate Citizenship Office has been established in the General Administration Department. This group drafts annual plans that aim to enhance activity planning and implementation, communication with local communities, and in-house education and enlightenment activities.
In addition, since FY 2004 the "Inter-affiliates Meeting on Corporate Citizenship" has been held twice a year. At these meetings Toyota Industries confirms and provides support to Japanese subsidiaries' activity plans, and also requests subsidiaries' cooperation and participation in activities sponsored by Toyota Industries.
In FY 2005 the "Regional Society Contribution Subcommittee" was established under the "Corporate Code of Conduct Committee", the committee directly controlled by the President, in order to promote social contribution activities that the entire Toyota Industries Group, including our overseas affiliates, could pursue.

1) "Toyota Industries Heartful Club" - an organization made up of current and retired employees, and their families

The "Toyota Industries Heartful Club" is a volunteer organization that was established in FY 1997. Its members are current and retired employees of Toyota Industries and its affiliates, as well as their families. The members aim to contribute to the building of a more prosperous society and also to raise people's consciousness about the importance of volunteering. The group plans and manages a wide variety of volunteer activities such as inviting the people staying at welfare facilities to clam digging and holding exchange events at Toyota Industries' own welfare facility.
The Toyota Industries' Corporate Citizenship Office acts as the secretariat for the activities carried out by the Heartful Club and assists it with a variety of administrative procedures. In addition, this department also provides financial assistance to cover the costs of the club's volunteer activities.

Heartful Club 2) The "Regional Society Contribution Subcommittee" Begins Initiatives to Promote Global Activities

The themes for the "Regional Society Contribution Subcommittee" are "promoting corporate citizenship on a global scale" and "examining key activities that will improve our corporate value". The subcommittee is examining the medium-term actions that the entire Toyota Industries Group should pursue. In FY 2006 as the subcommittee worked to draw up an original social contribution activity plan for the whole Toyota Industries Group, it also carried out a survey of the results of corporate citizenship activities at the Group's operational bases throughout Japan and overseas. In addition, it also interviewed employees returning from posts at overseas bases in order to begin a survey of the actual status of activities being carried out there. The subcommittee also worked on exchange and collaboration with NGOs and NPOs, as well as other local community groups to further expand the range of its activities.

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