There's an old saying that what gets measured gets done — and we couldn't agree more. That's why we have formal Community Leadership Guidelines that make us accountable for doing good everywhere we operate.

At a minimum, the guidelines require SC Johnson companies around the world to:

1. Demonstrate senior management leadership in the community through the General Manager holding at least one board-level membership with a major local community nonprofit organization.
2. Increase charitable giving as a percent of pre-tax profits.
3. Promote and coordinate at least one significant employee volunteer effort in the community each year.

The result is stronger communities, everywhere we are. Last year company-sponsored volunteer activities took place at 90 percent of our subsidiary companies.

And in recent years our company has helped remodel a sports complex in Chile, contributed to a burn and trauma unit in the Philippines, helped enrich schools in Ecuador and Colombia, supported disabled children in Belgium, helped lead a blood drive for children in Korea, protected the Grand River watershed in Canada, and much more.