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ECF MissionTo provide an avenue for IBM Employees and Retirees to assist those in need in our communities throughout Canada by contributing to Canadian charities of their choice.

ECF ObjectiveThrough employee fund-raising during an annual campaign, donate much needed cash to Canadian charities; increase community involvement, participation in charitable activities and volunteerism.

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Board of DirectorsRole of the Board: To demonstrate leadership relative to the objectives of the annual ECF campaign; provide guidance to the cabinet members; and to facilitate a smooth, auditable and successful campaign.

Board Chairman, Strategy, Execution, Executive InvolvementJoe Sehl

Co-Chairman, Targets, Measurements, Reporting, Supplier RelationsDavid Robitaille

Chief Operating OfficerPat Horgan

Employee Relations/Industrial Relations ConsultantKevin Jones

Financial Management - Specifically Event TreasurerWendy Howe

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2010 ECF Cabinet MembersEach member forms sub teams/committees to plan and execute their area of responsibility both locally and nationally with guidance from the Board.

ECF Executive Campaign Chair Joe Sehl

Campaign Coordinator Andrea Thomson

Senior Leader Campaign Chair Josephine Anderson

Marketing Nancy Clark

Communications Ellen Kim

Technology Consultant Andrea Feek

Education John Murphy & Helen Gioia

Event Coordinator Andrianna Sakitkovski

Volunteer Coordinator Cindy Orser

Mobile Employee Representative Gail LeCocq

Retiree Campaign Chair Ron Bettle

IBM Corporate Citizenship David Robitaille - Manager(ECF, Volunteerism & Matching Grants) Liz Gildner Norm Chatelier Andrea Pavia

IBM Canada Surpasses ECF Goal

To provide an avenue for IBM Employees and IBMers give where they live throughout the year.

We did it! IBMers from across Canada pulled together to surpass our Employees’ Charitable Fund (ECF) target and raise$3.3 million for Canadian charities.

In addition to the money raised by individual pledges, IBMers raised thousands of dollars as they put the fun in fundraising.Special thanks to the location and function coordinators who volunteered countless hours and planned so many creativeand exciting events at their respective locations. You could literally come up with an A to Z list of highlights from excitingfundraisers held across the country, including: auctions, bake sales, candy grams, donation jars, executive pie-in-the-facedelivery, food drives, golf tournaments, halloween parades, ice cream sales, jelly bean counting, keepsakes from garagesales, lunch-hour movies, minute to win it, name that tune… (you get the picture.)

To close off another successful ECF campaign more than 700 employees and their families from the Greater Toronto Areaconverged at a Silver City theatre where they enjoyed an early morning movie, had popcorn for breakfast, and celebrated the results results of the campaign.

The headline says it all. We surpassed our goal. And it happened because ofyour hard work. Success wasn’t only measured in dollars raised but also fun,employee engagement and volunteerism.

Without your involvement and commitment, our ECF campaign would not be one of the largest, most successful, national employee campaigns in Canada. Your engagement, in every location and function, ensures our campaign reaches the entire IBM Canada team coast to coast.

Thank you for everything you have done throughout our campaign.

JoeSehl 2010 ECF Executive Chairman

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Meet Dave WellingGB Territory Services Leader, is one ofIBM’s “ECF Heroes” and volunteers with Boys To Men Canada, a relatively new organization modeled after the best practices of organizations such as Boy Scouts and Big Brothers. Boys To Men provides 13-18 year old boys, who are struggling with adolescence, the opportunity to attend a “rite of passage” adventure weekend to learn positive qualities such as integrity, courage and respect from male adult mentors. From that point, the boys become “journeymen” for 2-3 years under the leadership of group mentors such as Dave while they enter into manhood.

Dave has been involved with the Toronto Chapter since it opened in April, 2010 and is passionate and committed to the program. He is also a member of their Board and attributes much of his success to the resource tools he uses on On Demand Community ODC. Boys To Men is a registered Canadian charity and recipient of IBM’s Employee Charitable Fund (ECF) program.

Making a Difference…CelebratingIBM’ers in ourCommunity.

Dave Welling (center, green shirt) at a recent ‘Boys to Men’ adventure weekend.

Meet Effron Esseiva

Effron Esseiva, IBM Industry Architect working out of the Burnaby office, decided to do something different with his life in 2007 by volunteering as an auxiliary officer for the RCMP. Auxiliaries go through a rigorous four month training program before beingsworn in as Peace Officers.

A big part of Effron’s volunteer work includes instructing children through the D.A.R.E. program (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) on the pressures and dangers of doing drugs. In addition, he is authorized to accompany regular RCMP members on patrol, perform other policing functions.

Effron, an “ECF Hero” volunteers with the RCMP approximately 160 hours per year. In June, 2010 hereceived special recognition from the RCMP for hisoutstanding work and contribution to the DARE.

Meet Gene Palazzo

Gene Palazzo, IBM Events Manager, has raised money for Princess Margaret Hospital for the past 12 years by running the “Annual Ernie Tourney” golf tournament, named after Ernie Maki, Gene’s late father-in-law who lost his battle to cancer in 1999.

Gene’s inspiration has generated over $36,000 in cash donations to Princess Margaret to be used for cancer research.

The annual golf tournament is held near Barrie, whereGene and his father-in-law built a lovely cottage on Lake Simcoe in the mid-1990’s. IBM Canada has been one of the official sponsors for the tournament and has also supported Gene through IBM’s Matching Grant Programwith all proceeds going directly to the Princess Margaret Hospital. Gene Palazzo is truly one of IBM’s “ECF Heroes”!

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Meet Michael Lucas

Michael Lucas, an IBM Senior Java Developer inWinnipeg and his wife, Kristen, decided to turn theirpersonal tragedy into something positive. In April 2009,their 6 month old daughter, Georgia, passed away shortlyafter being diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy(SMA), a genetic disease that is the leading cause ofgenetic-related deaths of children under the age of 2.

In response to this devastating loss, “ECF Heroes”Michael and Kristen, organized “Georgia’s Journey ofHope”, an event to raise money for Families of SpinalMuscular Atrophy Canada (FSMAC). The fundraiser is afamily event which is like a giant birthday party in honorof Georgia. Last year the event raised over $10,000.With concentrated research, their hope is that a curecould be found in less than 5 years.

For more information visit:www.journeyofhope.houseoflucas.com

Meet Nick Biase

Nick Biase, Sales Leader for ibm.com, gives back to his community by raising money and awareness for the York Region Aids Foundation. For the past four years, Nick has been very involved in the planning and organizing of “Taste For Life”, an event that encourages local York region residents to visit select restaurants whereby 25% of the proceeds are donated to the York Region Aids Foundation.

The one day event takes place in April and includes volun-teers like Nick being at every restaurant; talking to people to receive donations and manage silent auctions. Participation by residents and local businesses has grown steadily and this year alone, over $20,000 was raised for Aids research.

Nick Biase, early champion of “Taste For Life” and now an “ECF Hero” was recently awarded a $1,000 IBM Community Grant for his fine volunteer efforts!

IBM’s Nick Biase celebrating “Taste for Life” with staff at Cedar Grill Restaurant in Newmarket, ON.

The Lucas Family shortlybefore Georgia passed away.

IBM Partners for Haiti Disaster Response

As IBM assists earthquake victims, Canadian IBMers make a difference.

In response to the pressing need for assistance, theIBM Canada Employees’ Charitable Fund (ECF) hasauthorized a contribution of $50,000 to World VisionCanada. The Government of Canada is matchingdollar-for-dollar selected contributions to CanadianRegistered Charities assisting the relief effort, makingthis contribution from ECF equivalent to $100,000

from IBM employees.“The theme of ECF for the past two years has been‘Give Where You Live’, reflecting IBMers’ commitment to the communities in which we live and work” says Joe Sehl, National Chair of ECF. “This contribution also underscores the fact that we truly do live in a global community, and all IBMers want to be able to help the people of Haiti in this time of needand distress”.

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Parents of IBMer Thankful for Haiti Relief EffortsRobert Nonez was one of four children born and raised in Haiti who emigrated to Canada to study Engineering at University of Ottawa. Today, Robert works as a Cognos software developer for IBM Canada in Ottawa. Recently, Robert spoke to IBM Corporate Citizenship and described the ordeal his parents endured with the Haiti earthquakes last January. “My parents were extremely lucky. They lived in Canape-Vert, just outside of Port-Au-Prince. Their home was one of three that was left standing after the earthquakes although they lived in a tent for weeks afterwards fearful of entering their home,” said Robert. “I lost an Uncle and my wife lost a cousin.

I don’t know of anyone in Haiti who did not lose relatives or loved ones.” Robert added that Haitians are very proud people and have a hard time asking for help even in the worst circumstances. “When I ask my extended family what they need they say nothing, we have everything we need, but in fact, this translates into we need everything and we don’t know where to start.”

The massive worldwide Relief Efforts gave much needed support for the people of Haiti. “The relief efforts gave people hope and made Haitians feel part of the world community. With no functioning government and widespread chaos, people would not have survived without the worldwide assistance.”

Through IBM Canada’s Employees’ Charitable Fund (ECF), employees contributed $70,000 to World Vision Canada which was matched dollar-for-dollar by the Government of Canada..

Did you know?n 100% of ECF donations goes directly to the designated charities as

IBM covers all administrative costs.

n IBMers can choose to donate to any of the over 80,000 registered charities during the annual ECF Campaign.

n each year approximately 1500 charitable organizations share in excess of $3 Million thanks to the generosity of IBM Employees and Retirees.

n 92,000 hours were volunteered by IBM employees and retirees to help charities in their communities in 2010.

n since 2000 IBM Employees and Retirees have donated over $37 Million dollars to Canadian Charities via the ECF and Matching Grants programs.

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ECF 2010 Campaign Resultsn $3.3 Million in Employee Giving

n 1,450 Designated Charities

n 71% Pledge Card Return

n Average donation of $367.28

Areawide - Community Fund

United Way

Health

Hospitals

Other

Community Benefits

Religion

Social Services

International Aid & Developement

Education & Research

United Way Funded Agencies, Member Agency

AW Members

Environment

Culture, Arts

Areawide - Community Fund - 32%

United Way - 28.8%

Health - 12.9%

Hospitals - 7.6%

Other - 5.2%

Community Benefits - 3.5%

Religion - 3.4%

Social Services - 2.2%

International Aid & Developement - 1.4%

Education & Research - 1.3%

United Way Funded Agencies, Member Agency - 0.9%

AW Members - 0.5%

Environment - 0.3%

Culture, Arts - 0.2%

Employee Pledges Matching Grants

Employee Giving History

2010 ECF Pledge Designations

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