RBC Corporate Responsibility Report and Public Accountability Statement

Around the world, RBC employees and pensioners play a vital role in helping build the prosperity of the communities in which they live and work, by volunteering their time and expertise for good causes.

Heads, hearts and hands
If you surveyed RBC’s employees and pensioners, you’d find that an overwhelming number are passionate volunteers. RBC is a financial services company, so some of the most significant contributions our employees make are when they share what’s in their heads: the professional knowledge and business skills they have developed on the job. This includes sitting on not-for-profit boards and committees, providing money-management workshops, and sharing knowledge about budgeting and business planning.

But our employees are also renowned for sharing their hearts and hands to help community causes, volunteering their time for schools, local health associations, community sports, civic causes … and the list goes on.

While we can’t take credit for their efforts, we celebrate and thank our people around the world for all they do to build strong, healthy communities.

Dollars for doers
RBC’s Employee Volunteer Grants Program was launched in 1999 to support and encourage community involvement. Employees and pensioners who devote a minimum of 40 hours a year to a registered charity are eligible for a $500 RBC grant donated to the organization in their honour.

Since 1999, RBC has donated more than $2.6 million on behalf of our employees through this program.

For more information, visit rbc.com/community

2003 employee volunteer grants program

Number of grants	1,388

Total (C$)	$ 693,000

A compound investment

Winston Churchill said “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
     It’s a tradition for RBC employees around the world to give their time, expertise and knowledge to help build stronger communities.
     For example, in Winnipeg, RBC branches supported a local food bank’s annual drive by collecting 1,082 pounds of food in just two weeks. Then, a team of 16 employees took it one step further and booked a day off work to sort and bag the food.
     It may not seem like much – one day. But their efforts made a real difference to the Winnipeg Harvest Food Bank. And when you multiply the hours donated that one day by the countless hours our employees in Winnipeg and all around the world invest as year-round volunteers with schools, hospitals, sports teams, food banks and arts clubs – that’s building healthy communities.

RBC’s Wendy Pawlyk, Shaka Miller and Jacqui Wheway were part of a team of employees that pitched in to help a local food bank with its annual drive.
IMAGE: Sikorsky Photography