Continuing the Legacy of Caring

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company remains committed to using its resources – and encouraging its employees to use their time, energy and personal resources – to enhance the quality of life in the communities where employees live and work. This includes:

• Providing more employees than any other local company for the Forsyth County United Way Days of Caring, during which employees leave work to help non-profit agencies with landscaping, bookkeeping, painting, carpentry and other jobs.
• Providing volunteers for the YMCA Black Achievers local program, stepping in when the program needed coordinators.
• Raising money and awareness at the Muscular Dystrophy Association lock-in.
• Serving food to the homeless at the Samaritan Inn.
• Collecting books for Goodwill Industries' lending library.
• Helping with the National Black Theatre Festival held in Winston-Salem.
• Adopting families in the area for the holidays.
• Bowling in the Big Brothers and Big Sisters annual Bowl-a-Thon.
• Participating in blood drives in all major company facilities during critical need times.
• Sending money and supplies to disaster areas across America.
• Donating money for bilingual supplies for schools.
• Gifts-in-kind program that makes computer and office equipment available to schools and businesses.