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Community Economic Reinvestment

McDonald’s has been an integral part of the affected communities for nearly fifty years.
Over the last five years, McDonald’s and our Owner/Operators have invested millions in the affected areas. We are committed to reinvesting and rebuilding our restaurants, and providing jobs that in turn will help these communities rejuvenate their infrastructure.

Financial Donations

We have converted the RMHC canisters in our U.S. restaurants to support the American Red Cross and other disaster relief efforts. These donations are expected to total in the millions.
McDonald's has donated $3 million of additional funds on top of the $2 million in matching funds already allocated, bringing our total donated funds to $5 million.
McDonald's Corporation has donated more than $8,000 worth of Happy Meal Toys to the children in affected area shelters. We will continue this effort.
McDonald's Corporation partnering with Reverend Jesse Jackson and Operation PUSH is transporting donated goods from Chicago to the Gulf Coast Region, specifically in Mississippi. Operation PUSH has collected clothes and other supplies. McDonald's and Coca Cola are sending:

14,400 Bottles of Dasani water
10,000 apple juice boxes
100,000 bags of McDonald's cookies

McDonald's Employees

If you are a McDonald’s Employee displaced by Hurricane Katrina, please call the McDonald’s Service Center at (877) 623-1955 to let us know where you are and how we can help you.

How to Donate

Please help the Hurricane Relief Efforts by visiting any U.S. McDonald’s restaurants and donating through our RMHC canister. 100% of the canister donations assist and aid local and national relief efforts.

Additional Local McDonald's Efforts

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McDonald's Hurricane Relief Efforts Raising Funds For The Red Cross
The McDonald's Michigan Region had a fund-raising event on September 7th to generate Red Cross collection support for Katrina efforts. Partnering with local media outlets they have raised $90,100 to date and they are still in the process of counting additional collections resulting from the event.
The McDonald's Family Charity Fund: As of 9/23 the fund has collected $788,000 for a total including company match of $1,576,000
The McDonald's Indianapolis Region donated $168,000 to the McDonald's Family Charity Fund for a total with company match of $336,000.
Free Wi-Fi
- The service has been installed in 97 restaurants in Louisiana , 45 in Mississipi, 129 in Alabama , and 30 in the Houston, Texas area. A complete list of McDonald's restaurants with wireless access in the region can be found at www.mcdwireless.com or www.wayport.net.
Atlanta - $10 per point at the Georgia Southern football game
Baltimore/Washington – some restaurants serving as Salvation Army drop-off centers
New York Metro - $25,000 donation by the co-op
Milwaukee - $1 from every breakfast value meal and Premium Chicken value meal on September 9, $10 donation September 12-16 gets a free extra value meal Be Our Guest card
Heartland – 50-100 restaurants are hosting special events with a portion of sales from 4:00 – 8:00 going to the Red Cross
Detroit – 16 hour radio station "telethons" to benefit the Salvation Army
Houston – Owner/Operators donated 650 cases of water (then matched by Coca-Cola) to the Houston Food Bank
All 284 local McDonald's restaurants in North Texas will be collecting money to benefit Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Now through Oct. 9, all proceeds from the Ronald McDonald House Charities canisters will be used to benefit local hurricane relief efforts.

Efforts of McDonald's Suppliers

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Golden State Foods has contributed $100,000 to the McDonald’s Family Charity, Inc., a fund earmarked to help staff, owner/operators, and suppliers in the McDonald’s system who were affected by the hurricane. In addition, Golden State Foods has donated over $80,000 though other charities and has provided hundreds of volunteers in the affected areas. www.goldenstatefoods.com
Northside Foods, the first provider of fully cooked sausage to McDonald's Corporation has contributed to the cause through multiple means. www.smithfieldfoods.com
- McDonald's Family Fund $5,000
- NSF Employee Contributions $6,000
- Donated Meat and Supplies $250,000
McDonald’s uniform suppliers, Crest, Braco, and Way to Be, have provided approximately 175,000 shirts, pants, and t-shirts.
Lopez Foods, the largest Latino-owned manufacturer of beef and pork products in the United States, has contributed $25,000 to the McDonald's Family Charity, Inc., a fund earmarked to help staff, owner/operators, and suppliers in the McDonald's system who were affected by the hurricane. In addition, Lopez foods has also donated ice in the affected areas. www.lopezfoods.com
McDonald's Partners Wincup have donated more than 254 cases of 12 oz and 24 oz cups valuing $5,000 to the American Red Cross Relief effort. www.wincup.com
Mile Hi Frozen Foods, McDonald’s Rocky Mountain Region distributor has contributed approximately $350 worth of food products every Friday to feed the workers manning the Red Cross Phone Bank in Denver. Mile Hi, owned by the Taddino Family also donated $1,000 to the McDonald’s Family Charity Fund, Inc.
The Bun Companies donated more than $31,000 worth of buns, vegetables and transported more than $20,000 worth of diapers, toilet paper, wet wipes, canned foods, boxed foods and other goods donated from local churches. Bun Company employees drove the supplies to Luberton, Mississippi to a shelter that feeds approximately 2,000- 3,000 people a day in their outdoor kitchens. The Bun Companies employees have also contributed more than $16,000 to the McDonald's Family Charity Fund for displaced McDonald's employees. http://www.buncompany.com/

McDonald's Global Partner Support Efforts

McDonald’s Latin America

Many of you may have seen Mike Robert's thoughts or heard McDonald's U.S.A. C.O.O., Don Thompson, provide a voice-mail update on what McDonald's is doing to provide aid to the devastated Western Gulf Coast of the U.S. in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

In addition to the rapid response the McDonald's System tends to provide to all people following such events -- from dollars (for example, all RMHC canisters are being converted to raise money for hurricane relief in all 13,000 McDonald's U.S. restaurants) to food and water for refugees and aid workers -- the scope of this disaster has a component many recent tragedies have not: deeply affected McDonald's people at all levels: company, Owner/Operators, and restaurant managers and crew. All within the storm's path were not spared some form of hardship -- and, with approximately 120 restaurants closed -- we're talking about thousands of McDonald's family members who are likely homeless, hungry and thirsty, and badly in need of basic necessities and funds to support themselves and their families until more permanent solutions are in place.
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McDonald's Canada

Converted all RMHC canister donations to Hurricane Relief efforts.

McDonald's in Action

HURRICANE KATRINA SPECIAL REPORT
FORTUNE 500 Contributors: Who Gave What
See what some FORTUNE 500 companies have donated to the Katrina relief effort so far.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

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McDonald's(R) Restaurants Provide Customers Additional Ways to Help With Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
Wednesday September 14, 11:00 am ET

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- McDonald's Operators' Association of Southern California (MOASC) and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California (RMHCSC) will convert the RMHCSC donation canisters found in McDonald's restaurants throughout Southern California for customers to help with Hurricane Katrina Relief efforts through Saturday, October 9, 2005.
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Barstow families take in Katrina survivors
By TRAVIS DUNN
Staff Writer

BARSTOW -- You wouldn't think that survivors from Hurricane Katrina would relocate to Barstow. But family exerts a powerful pull, strong enough to draw some of the recently homeless more than 1,800 miles to a new life in the High Desert.

The Desert Dispatch has identified at least 14 people from Louisiana who have moved here in the last week -- some for good, some for the near future, and all of them because they have family here. There are others here already, and more on the way.
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McDonalds says fewer than 100 stores remain closed
11 September 2005
12:36
Reuters News
English
(c) 2005 Reuters Limited

NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Fast-food chain McDonald's Corp. said that fewer than 100 of its restaurants remained closed following Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the U.S. Gulf Coast on Aug. 29.

In a statement released on Saturday, Don Thompson, executive vice president and chief operations officer for McDonald's USA, said that number compared with 200 restaurants that were closed during the height of the hurricane.
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